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New Apocalyptic Subclasses UA Dark Sun seems like it’s coming next year.

Well

Wizards of the Coast has released four new D&D subclasses for playtesting, all of which have heavy thematic ties to the post-apocalyptic...

That’s the ticket! Thank you for sharing. I agree about Tolkien (apologies). I have mixed feelings about Who and HP and Firefly. But...

Because the Tolkien Estate made them change some names, and Gary held a grudge forever.

I honestly never understood why Gygax was so adamant in downplaying Tolkien's influence on D&D. The level of influence seemed both very...

Let's try asking your question without calling people names just because they have different tastes in how to pretend to be an elf to...

Yeah, on that issue... Unearthed Arcana was supposed to update expectations and rules from the Players Handbook. So any conflict you see...

I literally just finished redesigning WPM to make it much more plausible in my campaign, and posted the PDF over in "Your Last Adventure...

Except that ~20 of the encounters in KotB explicitly tell the GM to attack the party immediately... KotB works best when you ignore...

"You don't need to know the castellan's name, but you 100% need a map of the general store" is ... idiosyncratic. It'll be interesting...

One thing that I find surprising about both Daggerheart's Initiative system and what I describe above, is that you'd THINK that "Who...

That's a major point where I differ from you. I do want "being a PC" to be an exception in my game. I want PCs (along with certain...

I was re-reading Wizards Presents Worlds & Monsters for 4e, as one does, and there is a part where the designers intentionally wanted to...

I always just pictured it (elves, dwarves, longlived races) being very slow and deliberate about their actions and their crafts: Humans...