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Agreed, and this is my biggest issue with it. Plenty of people like this style, nothing objectively wrong with it (except maybe that any...

This is maybe an unreasonable piggybacking, but does anyone know if there is an adventure associated with this fun little map in the...

Very true! But I don't think it was acquired until Tier 2 Play! The films (been too long since I have read RotK) also have Gollum...

Why? That demand makes no sense to me.

I would say how important those rules are is much more based on what the table wants than how much more rules support the game gives you.

I don’t see why. I can think of plenty of historical examples of other paths to kingship. Henry VII for example started out as an...

When people bring up Tolkien as an example of what fantasy they feel D&D should emulate, don't forget that at some point, even the...

I totally buy that what you call the “survivalist skin” was always subservient to the combat gameplay loop at most tables most of the...

But you also had more spells that had little to do with combat or were useful outside of it: Push, Read Magic, Audible Glamer, ESP...

Yeah, I think there were more rules in the early edition to support the idea that the game wasn’t supposed to be about combat per se -...

Depends what you think of when you envision the world of Tolkien. Modern DnD heroic fantasy has every character being Legolas, Gandalf...

I agree that these things are vesitigial now, and have been vestigial for a long time (certainly back to 4e, and probably 3e to a large...

I think part of what’s going on here is less a design failure and more a reflection of what D&D has always been about at its core. The...

It's worth noting that it hasn't always been this way. In 3e, elves and half-elves had low-light vision (normal vision in dim light...