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If they're different mechanical representations of the same creature, then it's broken. A ten year old with a rock will kill the minion...

They're both Ogres, right? If yes, then there's a bunch of things both in and out of the fiction - in fiction: size, general attitude...

Relative to people's hit point totals in 1e, breath weapons were nasty enough unless the dragon was young. And "breath weapon" is by...

I'd still like the GM to be able to make an in-fiction causal claim though, and preferably one that doesn't read like it was invented...

I know. England, though, was VERY effective with their longbowmen. We have halflings, but I've never seen a Ling. Now I see that they...

In general I agree, but at the same time I don't want it to be 100% guaranteed that the dragon wins that fight; I want the farmers to...

Agreed. My old MMs are as valuable as the current MM. I wasn't making that argument LOL!!!. My table's 5e dragons are feared, not only...

Good grief if Daenerys had the type of dragons as statted by 5e she wouldn't have been able to take over Mole's Town nevermind Kings...

Agreed. Not all of them, though. Any given commoner isn't likely to have been trained in how to use five or six or ten different...

Not just sales numbers, but player-base numbers. Look at any of the data provided by online gaming sites* (roll20, Foundry, etc.) and...

Colour coding can be your friend there - only get green d24s, for example, yellow d16s, and so on. I don't at all mind dice of...

Yup. Got a new set of zocchi dice at Gencon. Love 'em!

I can tell you that while I've personally enjoyed them, as a retailer I find it somewhat difficult to sell games that use "funky dice"...

Hypothetical: 1 Dragon vs 100 peasants (commoners) First, the idea that dragons would not be unstoppable killing machines for NPCs was...

Going to have to disagree with you here. Arabic numerals won. All of the ten most popular languages in the world use Base Ten, and most...