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OK so, first, I love the Infinite Staircase in general and Nafas as a patron. I am now using it in my Eberron campaign. Next, my...

I think folks often look at alignment from a straight jacket perspective. As in, if you have X/Y on the sheet then only X/Y approved...

I like alignment as an ingredient in the kitchen-sink medievalistic modern fantasy that is D&D, like having Vancian wizards and...

I only like the concept when it's aligned to "cosmic forces" or philosophies. Example: Michael Moorcock's Chaos vs Law. Or another...

I found moral alignment useful as a guide in portraying a monster or NPC. Just a possible hook to riff off of. So CE 3e orcs were...

I think as a shorthand for an NPC’s personality or view of the world, it was a useful tool. It was much less useful and active source of...

Its a fairly big D&Dism that makes it a but more unique. Its also based on the old Law vs Chaos thing via Elric. Going as far as...

This thread has really taken me back in time to my younger years. I played AD&D and Basic with a lot of different groups and in my...

Didn't 4e have that?

So as an experiment, I introduced an item into my 5e game somewhat based on the 3.5 Belt of Healing- the main difference being that the...

Healer, particularly combat healer, is an inherently problematic role. You can make the game is balanced around having one, and then you...

It is always interesting to read stories about how different tables played the same game back in the day. In my main AD&D 1E group...

Yes. Above “name level” - where the level title matches the class name and HD top out and level titles stop changing, typically around...

To be fair, we weren't even out of high school and only really had the teachings of Gygax to follow, so make things punitive was sort of...

Witch: (to the holy man conducting the trial)" YOU pick it up!" Cleric: "Er..." Crowd: "Burn them both!"