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I do have to note that how similar the BECMI games are to OD&D is a matter of perspective. Ask someone who started out in late '75 (and...

Dogs love routines they have amazing internal clocks. My boy Jax was grumpy if he didnt get his walk before noon in his twilight years.

Hopefully some of the 20-odd pages of new content in the revised rule book will promote the use of templates and provide examples.

Templates are, indeed, a good solution, but you need to almost present them as a default; if you just put it in as an optional tool...

Well in terms of that, if I wanted more grounded fantasy I had lot of (to my POV) better choices.

Its a fairly common feeling for one reason or another. I pulled the plug as a GM at level 14, not out of preference, but practicality.

It might be worthwhile to look up a game called Everyverse sometime; it takes a tact in its handling somewhat like that (rolling it back...

While I agree with the first half of what you say here, once you have people who are used to any free-build system, they're no more...

So there was a period between 2006 and 2008 where Warner Brothers had a manufacturing defect which sped up the process of DVD rot, and a...

I have gotten good use out of Creature Codex and Tome of Beasts I in my last 5e campaign.

Just got my copies of the Fragged Kingdom 2e PDFs, and the Beta version PDF of Outgunned Superheroes.

One thing I started in 3E and continued into PF1 was making every class a min of 4+Int skills per level.

Thinking you get to decide how a discussion evolves in a thread because you started it... that's not how it works. You may not like the...

We live in semi-rural New England... You look at me weird because I keep duct tape, rope, a machete and a shovel in my trunk. I look...