Recent content by skinnydwarf

Venger being a red wizard makes me have a crazy theory (Spoiler for D&D movie, and the upcoming Phandelver adventure if I'm right):

As a dad, and a lawyer, I found it funny on both fronts. :)

I hope I'm proven wrong, but I don't think this will be a Dragonlance book. Months ago WoTC stopped work on Dragonlance, prompting the lawsuit. The lawsuit only ended a few weeks ago. This March book would have been in development during all that time, and thus it can't be the Dragonlance book.

For background thematic sounds, https://tabletopaudio.com/ is pretty great. Incredible, even

Of course dice superstition isn't real. Most gamers know this. But pretending the superstition is real is a fun part of gamer culture.

I can understand people not liking paying for a home game, but paying for space at a store or other public place is not unreasonable. Magic players need more cards all the time, and thus will probably buy stuff at the store. RPG players don't have as much of a need to buy new stuff, so it makes...

Arioch: beat me to it. :)

You can choose how much of your $$$ goes to the charity and how much goes to the company, in this case Frog God Games. I set the bar to give the charity the most money, in part for the reasons alluded to by Shasarak. I think you can even set it to 0 to the company, 100% to the charity.

rmcoen: I am sorry for what happened to your elf, but it is a *grim* world of *perilous* adventure. :) I only played the game once, myself, as a teenager. I remember it more fondly, probably because I was an awesome dwarf. I got a bunch of whfrp pdfs recently in a humble bundle, maybe I'll...

Impressive... most impressive. :) I'm sure you will have happy players. Quick question I didn't in the comments- is this based on the original Castle Ravenloft maps, or is it based on something in Curse of Strahd? I am playing that in Encounters right now, and want to send a link to my group...

This is pretty great, thanks for pointing us to it!

That is a seriously great idea. I imagine gaming groups making a pilgrimage to the memorial to take photos of their groups "game with Gygax." Maybe they could even play a quick game. (The table would maybe need to be replaceable for that reason. Perhaps the monument could be a bronze statue/DM...

I don't know why there cannot be an atheist character if your campaign has gods. The character would simply be wrong about the gods not existing. This is an interesting debate for the characters in the world to have (what does it mean to be a god?), but I don't see how it means that a...

I think some of you are looking at this the wrong way. As players and DMs, we know the lore of the default D&D setting: that the gods are real, that they grant spells, that they live on the planes, that worshipers give them power, etc. But that's the wrong perspective. You should approach the...

I'm not a fan of changing existing lore too much because I think it takes away from the D&D world, but for a lot of monsters there was scant lore to begin with. From what I've seen in the various columns, I really like a lot of the new lore they came up with. Even if I don't use it all in my...