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So there was a discussion on the Tales of the Valiant Discord server today about Reincarnation that I felt was pretty relevant. For the...

I keep thinking that I'm done with my exploration of the rules of my youth. There are three things in 1e AD&D that I don't think can be...

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Hello. Apologies if this has been covered before but I couldn't find anything after a quick search. I've been in and out of the TTRPG...

The cat has both achieved and not achieved Nirvana, until it is observed.

It's always shocking to me how many people that are hardcore into D&D also seem to hate many of it's component parts. "I love D&D! But...

Another victim of the algorithm pitching Dungeons & Discourse.

We did use the XP penalty when 3e first came out but quickly moved to a house rule I found somewhere online which worked pretty great...

Of course all of that is unnecessary- the Pafhfinder core rules state your Favored Class is the class you start as at 1st level, and at...

I did, but in retrospect, I probably shouldn't have. First of all, it didn't reinforce that class x was "favored" in any way. If I'm a...

I've encountered DM's who would make gender variable, and other factors like handedness or exceptional hearing/sight (AD&D) mutable as well.

If it truly is a random body, is it also random chance whether you end up the same physical gender as you started? Just thinking of a...

Being able to buy low gp magic items in most populated areas is a general core assumption in 3e and 3.5. In the 3.5 DMG it says...

A word of advice: I had a similar discussion with Maxperson in another thread and I realized I was wasting time when it became apparent...

And here we have the "well everyone plays the way I do, so this cannot be a problem".