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Though in some cases they may have chosen a class because they had good skill options. The only games where pulling skills out of an...

Never forget that a small but real percentage of people online are arguing in bad faith.

It's just a thread of people who like to hear themselves talk! :ROFLMAO: Much like the rest of the Internet! EDIT: That said, this is...

As someone who's had probably an unusually frequent need to do research involving older Internet material, if you haven't done it its...

Or in some cases being able to respect the value of a work that you know personally would not set well with you. But the reasons it...

I have been searching and there is an image created by AI that is protected by copyright, "A Single Piece of American Cheese" by Kent...

There are only two I can think of. 1. OD&D. This may be a case where I was already in my head moving out of D&D, and didn't see a...

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...

I'm not sure I ever felt that 4D3 didn't take it a bit too far. I did see 4D6 used as the core resolution system in one middlin'...

That tends to be an artifact of games that assume every character will participate in ever zone of play. Combat is the common one, but...

Like I said, its much harder to tell with big linear rolls in the first place, because they're so all over the place.

The big problem they had in 1e is that they sometimes got carried away with additional attacks chained off that. That was the big...

Mostly, but you had things like the Shadow Thieves with the Shadow Dragon (don't remember which Bestiary that was with) that had...

The normalization of bigotry in 2026 sure is a thing.

There's also considerable changes in the monster design at the upper end. A lot of Epic and some Champion tier monsters were, to be...