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We've always allowed the Shove to come first, as that way you can actually gain a benefit from knocking the target to the ground and then attacking it with Advantage for being prone. Otherwise there wouldn't be much point to the effort as the target would just be able to stand up before you can...

None of the above: I keep Concentration, but I allow multiple Concentration spells at once. Maintaining Concentration on a 2nd spell adds +2 penalty to the DC, and every additional spell beyond the 2nd doubles the penalty. Maintaining Concentration on 2 spells simultaneously is DC 12, 3...

More Delta Green is always wonderful.

I came at it the other way, discovering Stackpole's novels after starting to play the game in the late '90s, reading the engrossing history of this fantastic alternate future summarized in the setting material, and after finding out that there were actual novels that followed the lives of the...

Ugh... that's what they're wasting one of their few, precious books on this year? A book about ships and sailing? Sorry, I really dislike nautical themed D&D stuff. Absolutely zero interest for me. And seeing as how they publish so few 5th Edition rulebooks, this seems like a complete waste...

It's bad that I'm happy it's become common for women to play? Or that I wish we had some women playing in our group?

Well damn, I did not know that about her! That makes her 10 times more awesome, and I already thought she was was pretty rad from Daredevil! I'll have to watch this. We've unfortunately never had more than 1 female player at a time in my local group, always just the stereotypical DM's...

I feel the heavy hand of Graz'zt in the creation of Drizzt... or at least his name, anyway. In hindsight the popularity of Drizzt is obvious. The (literally) dark, mysterious outsider badass with a hidden past. Drizzt is the Wolverine of D&D.

High level Barbarian/Rogue with great Dex and Con?

I still think it's the best superhero RPG ever made. The logarithmic scale power ratings make battles between Superman and the Batman actually possible, if severely lopsided... just like in the comic book source. Defining every unit of measurement and rankings of character abilities as APs is...

Looks fine and I hope it does well. But I'd still give my left (insert body part) for a chance to play a good long campaign of Mayfair's DC Heroes (or the later Blood of Heroes repackaging of MEGS.) That's still my superhero RPG of choice.

Welcome to the Psychotic Opera... always save one last bullet for yourself.

I am looking forward to the 5E version of this so much I can barely contain my enthusiasm. My only hope is that the mechanics for reading "Eldritch Tomes" and the like are handled differently than they are in Call of Cthulhu. The idea simply that reading books like the Necronomicon causes...

I am sure the author of this post would despise the kinds of campaigns my friends and I prefer; our ideal games consist of about 50% combat, 50% roleplaying, and never use miniatures, battlemats, or physical icons of our characters. It is entirely theater of the mind. Our last game session...

I actually first read and fell in love with Lovecraft (HA!) before I started gaming, but had no idea who Lovecraft was until I discovered him through the Call of Cthulhu RPG. My family has always been huge readers, and we've have always had thousands of books in our house, picking up new ones...

YES!

I always pictured the Wild Coast on Oerth to be a very Wild West-style place, based on the description in the 1983 Greyhawk Boxed Set. I've always been cool with a mix of both Western and sci-fi elements in my campaigns, and "genre purists" in D&D have always really confused me and showed a...

Seriously? I am all about character customization; as a player I live for the ability to play characters mechanically distinct from any other. And to me 5th Edition represents the pinnacle of balance between a 3E level of character customizability that I desire, and a 1e/0E level of ease and...

Ooooooh, nice one!!!

My last character was actually a Warlock of Yog-Sothoth! I used the standard Great Old One Patron. To my mind, any manifestation of Yog-Sothoth is like an ice cube in a bathtub; it is coterminous with all space and time, but it can form temporary localized nodes that could be physically...