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Yes. And this wasn't one of the convention games. It was being run by a GM who had been a player in my group going back to the AD&D 2E...

These were my 4e house rules, but its been a couple of years since I last ran a 4e game: I design tough set piece encounters and expect...

The Facebook Shadowdark group is full of people who have not touched an RPG since 1984 who are in love with Shadowdark. I would be...

They can miss all their attacks in a given round, get hit by a round of attacks and die. This is less likely to happen to the Wizard...

Shadowdark has a lot less spells relying on saving throws. In D&D many spells fizzle because of saves. In SD, if you do not lose the...

Having played for 5+ years with roll-to-cast in DCC, as well as more recently in Shadowdark, it works just fine. The old D&D alternative...

I liked it for a long time...until I didn't.

I think low level MUs are underrated, and you kinda hint at why. They did have the same THAC0 as a fighter at level 1 and 2. And they...

I don’t think I know anybody who seriously used this method. But ultimately, any method of rolling stats (we used 4d6keep3, arrange to...

And I'd say UA was just an evolution of what we were already seeing with Dragon Magazine. All of those NPC classes? Everyone just used...

So I would say that, to a very limited extent, character builds and character optimization has always been present in D&D since the...

It was a natural evolution of what was going on by late 2e. You had a wide variety of race options, classes, kits, alternate uses for...

One thing I find interesting about the Edition Wars and other philosophical disputes within the TTRPG scene is that two factions can...

You get your talent at level 1 as well, and if you look at the Wizard talents, and compare the range of results, odds are pretty good...

Please stop saying that. It's not true. Spellcasting success rates are dependent on your casting stat. And some spells also are cast...