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In my exploration of old school dnd gaming over the past decade, I found in my groups the one fundamental thing that prevented the LFQW...

Because of it's massive size, D&D is in a bit of a unique situation. It is best served by being "good enough" for a broad swath of...

If the red wavy lines obscure the map to the point of unreadability it might be one of the 1e-era SOLO modules (there's a BSOLO, two...

I've seen this before too. Players are adventuring on Long Island and they uncover a quote or a book or newspaper article quoting an...

The level playing field ends the moment the first dice are rolled. It also depends, though, on how lethal the game is likely to be...

I don't think this matters. Whatever codification this all leads to is probably going to turn Appendix E on its head anyway by boosting...

The answer, of course, is to have levels that give nothing but added hit points and maybe an incremental save bonus. Yes, the dreaded...

Forever or permanent imbalance caused by factors other than luck is generally bad. Temporary pendulum-style imbalance, or long-term...

That's easy to say when talking about a nebulous hypothetical, but that's not how or why it plays out at the table. Disagreements like...

Given some of the things Crawford posted as Sage Advice over time, I've no idea how he sees/plays the game. Silly them.

Could they be assuming initiative is rerolled every round? 'Cause yes, without that this does seem somewhat underwhelming. The one use...

Gunslinger concept fairly stupid in D&D games unless you have revolvers or magical equivalent. Pathfinder one was also silly. Iirc...

I’ve kept 1s as auto-fails because I have found that spectacular failures often produce spectacular story moments. At worst they add a...

Quotes often heard at the game table, from both movie and TV: "Why do I feel like we've picked up another pathetic lifeform?" -...

New Year's Day seems pretty inoffensive...