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The first grey box set. Waterdeep and the North (1e) Savage Frontier (1e) These formed the core of our first FR campaign way back when...

Recheck the description of the Poisoned Needle. The check to disarm, once found, is listed. That said, the traps section of the DMG is...

Another example of the "same" difference. Perception notices the tip of the bad guys boot sticking out from behind the curtains...

In my experience, the DM just says, "You see a scrape on the floor where the bookcase swings. Pulling it open reveals a secret...

While I think it's supposed to be used in this way, In my experience, this never happens. How I've always seen it played out is, "You...

While not necessarily RAW, I tend to break them down as: Perception: noticing something not obvious Investigation: realizing why...

As a player, I don't like doing a lot of unnecessary bookkeeping, so I'll just let the DM know I'm spending 500 GP on accommodations...

"One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires." -The Lost Boys

"Also: vampires were always a problem." - Van Richten

I'm using the Elder Scrolls argument: different strains of vampirism affect different types of creatures.

Previous editions had vampiric non-humanoids. Vampiric dragons for example, and they worked a little differently than humanoid vampires...

I think that lifestyle expenses should be a greater aspect of games. In the old Conan rpg, you basically spent 90% of your wealth...

You can sometimes be surprised with throwing it a little bit of "cosmetics" into the game for the PCs to spend their money, especially...

It seems like the real issue isn’t that RPG economies are “broken,” but that they’re serving very different purposes depending on the...

Making an economy work in the real world is hard enough. Think how magic mixes things up.🤔