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My 'google-fu' comes up with this: Vault of Catharandamus The dungeon on pages 276-281 in the "Tome of Magic: Pact, shadow, and...

However, management is one way you get to that narratively (in)convenient point in a game setting. Yes your DM can also fiat that...

I don’t think we can really know what the designers’ intent was at the outset. All we can do is look back at the rules as they were...

I will readily accept "the long 80's" as an aesthetic era from spanning from circa 1977 to 2001, it's assumptions shattered by the dot...

I don't recognize that particular map but at least three of the maps at the back of the 2014 DMG were recycled from issues of Dungeon...

Gary is that you? Have you returned as Gygax the White?

Though I'd say Gandalf is at least a 5th level wizard (solos a Balor) and Frodo had to Quest pretty hard for the Light of Eärendil

I would like to point out that even in Lord of the Rings, Gandalf cast seemingly at-will magical light on his staff and Frodo had the...

I was in a Forbidden Lands game not too long ago by Free League. Now, that produced a survival sim feeling that D&D just wont anymore...

Agreed. It seems like a concession to the sorts of approach that Pulsipher criticises. I think it's interesting in that it shows that...

Diseases and environmental effects. The former are…well, I guess they don’t exist anymore. It’s the poisoned condition and they are...

I wasn't even a twinkle in my parents eye in the 80's so maybe that explains my atavistic attraction. (I'm using torches as a stand in...