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As someone who made one (Swords under the Sun) and is playing/running Grimwild right now: I think they inherently suck. D&D benefits a...

Hell yeah! Me too! I mean, D&D rapier can only thrust, while our world rapiers very much can cut, so it must be an estoc with beefed up...

In truth, is -any- weapon made by mortal hands a valid choice against a dragon? Consider, just for a moment, the sheer -size- of a...

So after a few years of running a lot of games with different variations of wounds system, I can say only one thing: I hate them...

Right! I know I was missing something! Sorcery points can be spent on casting a melee attack cantrip as a bonus action, with main action...

Cool. So we're coming at class design from wildly different angles. Heavy Armor Proficiency, d10 hit dice, full weapon and shield...

As a designer, I don't see a problem in splashing. Sorcadin is fun! Coffeelock is kind of neat, but whatever. I haven't played Lockadin...

I think multiclassing works mostly fine, the main issue is that non-casters don't have a uhhh bus to connect them. Paladin/Sorcerer, or...

I recently read something online that said that a D&D GM is not really bound by any rules: for instance, they're not bound in any...

The example I gave wasn't fudging dice: rather, making choices like "If the PC has AC 20, then give the NPC a +15 attack bonus" or "If...

I'm not talking about damage. I'm talking about healing. You create a Basic Healing Rate (an baseline amount a spell will heal you based...

Conceptually, I'm not a big fan of "HP as luck". It makes little sense to me, especially in games where randomness (Actual Luck) is...

Another self-defeating part of the game is... combat! There's so many options and so little restrictions in combat that it's...

Just remember folks: Realism. Verisimilitude. Accuracy to real-world materials, physics, and phenomena. That's what D&D is all about...

Careful--you might remind folks (or reveal to them) that the roots of D&D are actually extremely, extremely close to superhero comics...