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After college when I moved to a new city for law school there was about a five year period from 1995-2000 where I did not have a regular...

I've been there. I had a group I was running an AP for in PF1 era. I was putting a ton of work into bringing the AP to life. The players...

I haven’t rolled polyhedra with intent since 2014 due to a confluence of events. Nothing I saw in the prerelease notes of 5Ed...

Fair enough, everyone has stuff like this where they just can’t resonate with a particular thing. I think that you’re assuming a type...

I signed up for the U.S. Army. I failed the physical on Induction day (bad ankles). I was not an orphan raised by wolves. A lot of...

Well, you see, some people are just naughty words.

50 coins to a pound, right? A Troy ounce of gold is worth about USD $4000 now - about double the long-term rate of roughly $2000-$2500...

On inn's very like another when your head's down over your miniatures, brother! This is one of those D&Disms where we tend to think of...

Absolutely! And there is a lot to recommend being those things. And then there is the “carrying on the family legacy” backstory, or “I...

I mean, heck, squiredom is a perfect reason to become an adventurer. You became an adventurer because you were apprenticed to an...

“A change is as good as a rest.” - Fred Thursday, in “Endeavour” I took a break from D&D from 1991-1996. I came back knowing what I...

Why wouldn’t they? One day, they helped the knight with something, showed potential, the knight saw something in them, so they offered...

I rarely do the horrific/tragic background. Often there is some sort of adversity in my character's background to explain why he is an...

Most recently formed party backgrounds. Since it’s over email, there’s a wide variety of actual locations and backgrounds, though I...

“First half ogre. Second half. Also ogre.” OK, that has nothing to do with anything, but it makes me laugh. — Would our hypothetical...