Recent content by el-remmen

While D&D is my preferred RPG experience, I really have a hard time grokking folks who can only look at RPGs through the D&D lens. Or even worse, only looking at all other forms/styles of D&D through their idiosyncratic lens as well.

Other people expressing a preference for a different style of play from yours is not the same as their impugning your preferred style. And if you think it does. I worry that you have made that playstyle too much a part of your identity.

It is strange that pretending to have interest in what someone else is talking about can be simultaneously polite and impolite, but it is true.

Is it? I either never noticed or forgot. I first encountered it in one of the UK modules for 1e.

Grappling without an opposed rolls robs grasping monsters of its drama. (And I mean “grasping” in both potential ways - monsters that grasp and grasping monsters).

If you read my post about this issue I literally give the caveat that I am not familiar enough with 4e to say if it might be the exception. Also, regardless of whether there is really a problem with the ranger or just an aesthetic preference, the real point to me is the contention around the...

When does the KS campaign start?

One of my favorite Dragon Covers of all time. I wrote about this issue here: Dragon Mag Monday: #92 A couple of things I discuss that you don't mention include that "Sword of Justice" (which I love and have run more than once) includes THAC0 in its stat blocks, something many people...

Something in this issue I noted in my own overview that you didn't mention, is Kim Mohan's self-contradictory editorial about non-D&D/non-TSR material in the mag, that actually helps to demonstrate how the insular and homogeneous nature of the gaming industry worked (works?). If you give...

I'm going to need to re-read my own overview of this issue and compare it to your points. I'll be back with a more specific response! You can find mine here: Dragon Mag Monday: #94

It’s all D&D to me.

Thanks for the heads up re: ToV - I may have to check that out. And I appreciate a view into how you run skill challenges I have been running skill challenges in my 5E games for a few years now too (mostly. . . loosely? based on Matt Colville's description here, never having read, played, or...

That thing where I look in on a hundreds of pages long thread and think, surely this thread has reached it nadir and must be almost done, but then see that there are 39 pages left and there will likely always be at least that many left no matter how much of it I skim.

From Wednesday’s Session: