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Whether or not the players ever "get better at the game", the constant remains: both in and out of character, players will quite...

The idea of percentile strength - that exceptional individuals could have crazy-high strength scores - is IMO sound enough. But those...

3e, as with many things it tried, had a good idea here and vastly overdid it. Had they done this only for humanoid monsters - i.e...

I know yours is a genuine question an inquiry so will try to answer. First things first: I think 5e (gulp) might be superior to 1e in...

Gary decided to give druids weapons that resemble sickles (crescent blades) as the sickle was important to druid rituals (harvesting...

i believe i read somewhere it's from a bit of a lore interpretation weirdness originating from earlier editions, how the IRL druidic...

For me, modern (WoTC) D&D doesn't have someone like Jim Holloway. His art kept it real. Not heroic. Regular looking people, with at...

OK @Parmandur these are fighting words! BECMI and Deities & Demigods are the best of D&D! Even putting them in the same sentence as a...

IMO that was one of 1e's biggest inherent design mistakes: not giving its monsters the benefits and bonuses their high stats in theory...

The extension to 25 was to give the numbers for things like Girdles of Giant Strength; and also helped if one wanted to give Giants and...

Easy: natural 20 always fails.

In the early days, long before Whitman arrived, I think there was a little bit of resentment from Gygax and TSR in general towards other...

I think there's a lot of interesting ground between magic mega mart and no commerce in magic items at all! In the real world, people...

What happens to be available for purchase at any given time/place should be every bit as random as what's found in their adventures...

I suspect more would, at least some of the time, were the published adventures short self-contained modules rather than hardcover...