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I will amend my statement that 3E made mistakes to TSR having made mistakes. The Internet and human civilization may also have been...

Read with a bit of tongue firmly held in cheek...but I am generally not a fan of how D&D was developed over time at TSR, as someone...

I see this a lot. What I don't understand is that D&D has always had art that didn't match the medieval theme and had shiny happy...

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...

Giants didnt have STR scores. On the other hand.... ahhhh! the good old days.... :)

I think outright orthogonal to the medium might be slightly too extreme a position for my taste in 2025 AD, because some subgenres of...

This begs the question of what you mean by "story". The conventional understanding is a tale with a beginning, middle and end. With...

Congrats to Roberts!! I’m guessing we’ll see where this new team is going in 2027?

In 2E, after things went pear shaped when I was 4 years old. Right, this proves my point: notice the difference between t 18/00 and 29...

Oh, yeah, Proficiency gating is important for maintaining the difference between characters and makes the flat math work.

This. I require proficiency all the time to make certain checks.

Unfortunately, that's because Mr Gygax put them in the AD&D PHB and aside from an attempt to remove them in 2e (which resulted in three...