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So, playtest round 1 is labeled "Survival Package". Its pretty simple with just two major rule changes. Remove side hit location...

I loved it. I started playing again last year, and I was able to jump in straight having last played in . . . 1994?

Greetings, It appears the good folks at Catalyst Games Labs (CGL) have been doing some internal testing with their devs and agents...

My mom took away my D&D books when I was 12. Then she overheard us playing TMNT with a kidnapping scenario, and took those away, too...

4th Edition tried to remove the idea of monster species being locked into specific alignments, either through their stats or their...

"Only you can put out fire-breathing forest dragons." ;)

There was a Dungeon side quest in issue 32 called Changeling where the party hears of a rampaging white dragon only for it to turn out...

I always felt their wings should be reversed in coloration. Blue on the bottom to help them blend in with the sky when descending on...

Because Gygax. And really, it is quintessential Gygax: campy, a bit silly, but overall just fun in a I'm a bit of a square guy in the...

Now I'm reminded of an article I read in the ancient days on the Wizards website, where a designer talked about their campaign where the...

White, green, and red seem fairly obvious and maybe black as well (dark fetid swamp water). The weird one is blue, living in deserts –...

The dragons in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books had several colors. Green and Gold were female. Other colors were male...

In my current homebrew setting color coding is an attempt by sages to apply a framework through which to understand dragons that doesn’t...

I've also discovered some '70s era books on mythological creatures that seem to indicate Gary might have drawn the colored dragons from...

They go back to a series of articles Gary Gygax published in a Diplomacy fanzine called Thangorodrim in 1969 and 1970. Gygax seems to...