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Another useful link would be mtgwiki's page on the subject: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Theros_(plane) For those less familiar with the Magic: the Gathering lore, some useful information to keep in mind if you're scouring the web for story tidbits of Theros: The original cards were released in...

Player comprehension is biggest for me. If I'm running a game, I've got a lot to keep track of, and I can't memorize every class, subclass, spell, feat, etc. in even the core book, not to mention supplements, including third party. I encourage newer players to play simpler classes. I ask...

I went with 3.5 for a couple of reasons. First, it was the edition I started playing in. I'd gotten some rulebooks for earlier editions, but without anyone to play with or explain them to me, I never understood what they were about. Second, thanks to the OGL and SRD, the base game was mostly...

Good info, though I'd spend a little less time on how to play and more on the budget side. There's tons of "how to play D&D" guides already out there. I always advise potential new players to find a group first, bring a pregenerated character (the wotc website has a bunch), and let the group...

The site http://planewalker.com or http://www.planewalker.com simply times out for me - you may be using a DNS service (such as from your ISP) that 'helpfully' tries to redirect or suggest alternatives for you, like possibly the bandcamp user 'Planewalker'? If so, that's due to your internet...

The 3.5 supplement Races of Stone had a few pages of fluff on dwarves and dwarven culture - probably overshadowed by other supplements already mentioned though. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/27893/Races-of-Stone-35

Looks like the Wayback Machine shows it working as recently as 9 March: https://web.archive.org/web/20190309031048/http://www.planewalker.com/ - that page shows they're recovering from a bad database crash, has a link to a downloadable archive, and redirects to the subdomain...

I use a deck of cards as an alternative to initiative tracking, similar to Savage Worlds' initiative system. Being an Eberron themed game, I also use Action Points, which I track by giving players colored aquarium crystals (sometimes with different colors having extra effects). At one point in...

I'm interested to see if it's tightly integrated within the Forgotten Realms, or if it has enough non-setting-specific information to support setting up a branch franchise in a different setting. One of the more recent live games focused on them traveling to Ravnica, and setting the seeds for...

My main concern would be, since the rolls are known ahead of time, behavior might be altered to line up certain checks with certain rolls, in order to get a more desirable result, however unintentional. Counter example: what if a player made a bunch of rolls ahead of time, recorded them, and...

When I prepared a Curse of Strahd adventure, I took a look at the original Ravenloft module, as well as the 3e Expedition to Castle Ravenloft expanded module. I had no interest in the supplemental material that expanded it into a full on campaign setting; nothing against it, just I wanted to...

Mechanically, the spell specifies that the only changes are racial traits. If the player and DM want to use the opportunity to make further modifications that would enhance the fun and storytelling of the group, it would be a very appropriate time to do so. (I know myself if I ended up with a...

They have to at least go through all the stages of grief over their fallen comrade. Because nobody remembered the command word for that magic item he had, and it's worth a lot less to fence if you don't know the command word.

I'm aware of how the rule is written, but I'm okay with the shove happening any time during the turn, as long as an attack is intended. If somehow the attack is prevented, then retroactively if the attack was prevented, we usually say the shove was the action for that turn. For some people it's...

For whatever reason, could be the playstyle, the editing, the types of players, I not only couldn't get into it, it always felt more like an uncanny-valley-like interpretation of tabletop play than anything I've personally experienced. Then again, I don't really enjoy listening to play session...