Recent content by el-remmen

As I said, I do think he was trying to be an ally, and maybe he was resisting the presumption that all characters are heterosexual (and the fact that he had several queer folks in his groups bears this out). But as someone who had already been playing queer characters and with queer folks for...

Back in college in the mid-90s, one of the other local DMs (who I never actually played with) made all PCs, based on the statistic that 10% of the population has some form of same-sex attraction, roll a D10. If you rolled a 1, you were gay (he might have later switched to a table based on the...

I printed out the 157 double sided pages of my 5E homebrew hack, triple checking everything before I hit "send." The page numbering and layout was mucked up somehow anyway so that pages that are supposed to be two-page spreads were on opposite sides of the same sheets and the numbers appeared...

In the homebrew 5e I’ve been working on I control ability scores by 1. Limiting ability scores to 18 max (until 6th level - my rules hacks levels down to just 10, so that is halfway through a campaign) 2. Using a stat draft array that makes sure no one can have an 18 to start without using...

We must imagine Sisyphus actually plays RPGs.

Here is a complete very very rough draft PDF of the VF5E PHB. It is kinda huge. It will only be available for brief time - but I know some who follow this thread might want to grab it.

“You’re still young / that’s your fault / there’s so much you have to know”

That's what I think all future editions of D&D should be like, personally - though it doesn't have to have B/X as a base, necessarily.

I thought they looked like Sleestaks. But on another look, only the one with the crest is really close.

I definitely did, which is why my copy is long lost with the UA I recycled in the 00s (it had fallen out of the original binding within a year or so of getting it, so I punched holes in it and put it in a 3-ring binder with other house rule stuff.

I wrote about this issue as well. https://how-i-run-it.com/2023/03/20/dragon-mag-monday-103/ I write mostly about the UA Errata, how Gygax's vision of 2E convinces me his ouster was good for the game, complain about too many dang dogs, and reflect on my own use of centaur PCs. "Wages of...

When you want to divorce the feat's ability from the levels at which feats are gained might be one reason.

I used to visit the Time Cube website occasionally for a good dose of crazy. But then it started getting racist and I wasn’t as amused by the dude’s psychosis anymore.

Me three.

Your posts remain boring at best and transparent bait at worst.