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Not just achieving Bard - any type of higher level advancement that brought rewards. I'd include when certain classes acquire spells...

The 1e DMG is a work of art. I ran 2e a few years back but made heavy use of the tables in that DMG. I started with 2e and the Mentzer...

I'm going to ignore everything related to preferences, aesthetic, nostalgia, hero worship, etc, and look at the simple issue of defining...

To be fair, per 3e DMG ("Ad Hoc Awards"), such an encounter would not give any XP at all if it didn't use resources or used very few.

I think in pf2e (anyone, feel free to correct me), they've changed it so that you only need 100xp per level, but it is the enclunter...

My experience is that it's important to be up-front about what is and isn't allowed in a given game. I'll write a campaign prospectus...

I personally liked both Necromancer and Goodman Games modules. In fact, the early 3pp modules of 3.0 had their charm. Authors not only...

I think 3e did a lot of things right but not everything. If I had to play exactly by the rules, I'd play 3e if I had to play a D&D...

We will see. 🤷‍♂️ I'd been waiting for my Conan-esque, Brom/Frazetta, Chainmail Bikini setting, so lets keep our fingers crossed eh?

I wasnt expecting much, other than for it to not be touched.

Why is there a need for a 'new take'. Its a pre-existing entity, its got a pre-existing tone, presentation, and so on. sigh I get it...

Oh absolutely. Not every build is going to work, and sadly, a great many of them are traps or at the least, not fantastic. I'm...

I had a discussion the other day with some friends about which version of D&D we liked best. My breakdown was this: 2e for lore and...

The base 3.0 game wasn’t bad, still isn’t. I prefer it to 5th. We had a ton of fun to about 8th level but dnd has always been a better...