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I played D&D only between 1979 and 1981. Then I played Gamma World - which was really just reskinned D&D. The next RPG we added to our...

I was on my year hiatus from Enworld when these rules came out, but the first thing I assumed was that they were going to be selling...

The Bastion rules take a role playing scenario and attempt to give it detailed and replicable structure. To me, this is problematic...

#1: As mentioned, clerics already have a lot of ground that they cover with the existing domains. I could come up with 100 more pretty...

The aerial combat rules kind of suck in 5E (2014 and 2024). They're sparse. They don't cover a lot. And, there is one element in the...

I recently played a paladin in 2024 5e and I quickly learned that the topple mastery is meta for aerial combat. Aerial combat should...

The best way to handle aerial combat is theater-of-the-mind methods.

It usually happens to bots that go to forums with the express intent to drum up conversation about the delicious Steak and Shake...

I want my Swashbuckler with Beef Tallow Onion Rings. On a serious note: Swashbucklers, to me, should be dexterity based melee...

I do this all the time. It is one of my go to techniques when following the guidelines for encounter design in the 2014 DMG. PCs are...

Your definitive statement of what a game mechanic must be is misplaced. As noted - I used these off and on for a looooooong time...

They're not baseline abilities you need to have in every game, but - gosh tootin - they have a place in certain games - but I do not use...

I'd draw a difference here. Fear: If the creature ends its turn in a space where it (the target) doesn’t have line of sight to you, the...

This is a bit heavy handed of a way to say it, but I agree that this outline takes away player agency. Man plans. God laughs. DM...

You know who really hated name dropping? Gary, or as I liked to call him ... Gary.