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The "roman soldier who bought a farm" story, which is not "a tale as old as time" but is around 2,000 years old. I agree, some of the...

I might allow the peasants to love the PCs and the nobles to not like them after they saved the town from whatever. The locals want the...

A fairly simple way to handle large forces is to reduce the units to a single CR and have those face off. Ie 10x goblin warriors is...

As a forever DM here's my takes BECMI - yay, rules for my toys! AD&D 1e- rules for social interactions (honorable mention: splitting...

Note that the OP was also in the context of wargame-style rpgs. The term "campaign" is a vestigial sign of most fantasy rpg's wargame...

Maybe check out the 2024 Archfey Warlock In addition you get to add a rider effect whenever you cast Misty Step. At 6th level you can...

US - probably 4th grade in an extracurricular program. Other kids had some from comics (Avengers had both Thor and Hercules) and movies...

Clash of the Titans for sure and then the D'Aulaire's Greek myth book. Probably second grade.

This is a variant of "geek the mage", where you take out a (relatively) fragile enemy who does damage. Its a very useful tactic where...

The "amateurs" quote is properly attributed to USMC General Robert Barrow, who in 1979 said "Amateurs talk about strategy and tactics...

My players use food for a lot of different things. To distract beasts, to barter/bribe "differently civilized" peoples, as bait, and as...

It probably wasn't. I was doing math at 6am on a bus, quite suboptimal.

Double 20s is a 1:400 event. That should happen 2.6x10^8 times for every on 3 on a character made with 4d6 drop low & drop lowest stat.

And those all behave exactly the same. :) Raccoon and primate smart is pretty clever at tasks they can conceive. Heck, watch a...

For me, if you're not at least trying to play to your stats (particularly the low ones) you're cheating.