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There's been a trend for a while now in video games and anime: crafting what you kill. D&D is finally catching up. Picture courtesy of...

Ha my werewolves book is in there!

This was 100% my experience, and I was the DM! We played basic rules, jumped to AD&D, were utterly confused and just sort of kept the...

Okay, I'm here! Oh, sorry, I must have misheard. Johnathan

I had the sewer maintenance crew in a city were red shirts. This was to hide the blood from cleaning up things, but also as a homage to...

Wandering monsters aren't the only beings you might encounter in a dungeon; NPC adventurers can be helpful too (even unintentionally)...

Yeah it's an open question as to whether any of those changes make the monster actually HARDER vs. just...different. I feel like it...

Off the top of my head: Monsters now can be proficient in initiative. Matters a lot, for ambush-style monsters, and listing their...

Where goeth D&D, so goeth the industry. This doesn't mean those games aren't being played. It does mean D&D sucks up most of the oxygen...

This is why "The Monsters Know What They're Doing" is so popular: The Monsters Know What They’re Doing Differentiating battle tactics...

Ironically, that movie actually DOES show that knight doing stuff. It's quick, but he actually does trigger one of the traps, kind of...

It's funny because I've played through Tomb of Horrors and never remember those demons. Can they be encountered or is that a throw-away...

In traditional D&D dungeons, traps are everywhere. But what keeps them running? Picture By George E. Koronaios - Own work, CC BY-SA...