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Maybe replace Legendary Resistance with 1st Ed. Magic Resistance.

Known: There were holes in the design, whether intentionally put there* or not Learned since: The designers knew very early on that at...

I'm a minority...rawr!

I understand and respect your points. However, some of us look at the line above as a good thing, a strength. I think it was you that...

I've seen scry-and-fry happen numerous times in 1e, never mind 3e where it was far easier to pull off. It's a thing, IME.

It's the Crypt Thing and it's in the class of "mobile traps" that we see in a lot of AD&D monsters. How dangerous it is depends...

Whenever I design a table for almost anything I always make the table's range either open-ended (meaning I might have to roll a d57 or...

2-5 is the same average as d6 only with the ends filed off. Easy enough to do as d4+1.

I think no matter how finely we try to tune this, there's still going to be situations where it just comes down to eyeballing it at the...

I'm hung up on getting fingerprinted to get your driver's license renewed. Not sure I'm cool with that.

GenCon comps their more prolific GMs (or used to, anyway, no idea if that's still the case) and turning in the players' tickets to the...

I find it weird that it's thought of an oddity considering GenCon had been doing it when I started going to conventions back in 1983. I...

What it really comes down to are the philosophical & ideological differences. 2e was the beginning of the end when it came to DM...

Blinding spittle is just another form of missile discharge, only with an effect other than damage. That said, blindness maps to an...

Trying to avoid the “splitting” effects territory—and failing miserably Breath weapon or major breath weapon? DMG, p. 227: “Breath...