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I think the terminology is helpful because although systems might slant to one version out of the three, you can generally lean into the...

However, it also may be its own style that exists independently of the other two, and that is what this thread is about.

I'm not sure if historical context has been lost per se, the fact that there has been a host of successor games leaning very hard into...

TL;DR OSR and 3.5 play differently, shocking I know :P

Sport vs War is also sort of feeling around an issue of what the combat part of the game focuses on, or is abstracted to. War...

That was supposed to be a reply to this :P

Fireball the Gazebo is a good and underappreciated one.

Man where are y'all when I complain about the 5.5 art. I always get the exact opposite take there.

There are days, getting more and more frequent lately, when I feel that allowing monetization of YouTube videos was a mistake.

It seems like appropriate (for the genre) Frazetta/Boris style art? It’s not my preference, any more than pink baby beholders are, but...

There's a big difference between: A) Title: "DnD is dying!!!", Video: unhinged diatribe about how WotC sucks, DnD sucks, you should be...

This used to annoy me until Professor DM did a great rebuttal video, walking through details on how Youtube algorithms force click-bait...

People have been proclaiming the actual or imminent death of D&D since 1974. Waves of enthusiasm for the idea come and go, and since...

D&D YouTube has been struggling lately. A lot of creators blame it on changes to the algorithms, but personally I suspect that between...

I maintain that while the 5e magic items are streamlined, they ended up fairly lame as a result. Can’t have any lingering impact on the...