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  1. Aaron L

    D&D 5E Players Self-Assigning Rolls

    Batman: Return of the Caped Crusader, and Batman vs Two-Face (with Shatner [!] as Harvey Dent.) While I am most definitely not a fan of Camp Batman (just watching it annoys the Hell out of me) I have heard about these and am happy to pass the info along to someone who does like it. They should...
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    D&D 5E New Wizard Arcane Tradition: Dwarven Mage-at-Arms

    I've been talking with my brother over the past few weeks about how Dwarves, being a Proud Warrior Race™ all about beards, axes, and hammers, and smashing skulls with said axes and hammers, should have an answer to the Bladesinger, IE a Wizard tradition with some decent melee combat ability. If...
  3. Aaron L

    News Digest: WotC Releases, M:TG Harassment, Epic Lawsuit, Munchkin Games, and more!

    I am appalled at the number of people wishing financial ruin on a family because their kid cheated at videogames. I think it's time people step back, take a breathe, and repeat to themselves it's only a damn game. And yes, suing minors was equally repulsive when the RIAA did it (was that...
  4. Aaron L

    D&D 5E Mordenkainen's Sword is Limp and Made of Tinfoil

    Yup, it sure does, and I am very happy about that... but at the time I wrote that, the DMG hadn't yet been released! :)
  5. Aaron L

    Over Half Of New D&D Players Got Into Game From Watching Online Play

    Do it do it do it! You can do it! Your "friends" who wouldn't let you play because it would "throw the dynamic off" were doofuses. I would love to have women in our gaming group who are there because they just want to play. More diversity = more points of view = wider perspective = better...
  6. Aaron L

    Over Half Of New D&D Players Got Into Game From Watching Online Play

    The name Harmonquest seems to ring bells for me, maybe? That's the one with the pro voice actors, right? I was only able to watch the first 2, maybe 3 episodes. I was very excited at first... actual D&D play with professional actors! The DM seemed to be really on the ball, with a big book of...
  7. Aaron L

    D&D 5E Fifth Edition.....Why?

    I love 5th Edition because to me it seems like a damn near perfect fusion of all the best elements of all the previous Editions, including the good parts o 4th Edition, which I otherwise despise (good parts such as Ritual Magic and non-magic-using characters being able to learn to use Ritual...
  8. Aaron L

    Over Half Of New D&D Players Got Into Game From Watching Online Play

    This is great news! Just a few years ago I was decrying why, if such things as chess could be spectator sports, why not D&D? I am thrilled to see it has become a big thing! My only hope is that the gaming quality has improved since when I watched some of the videos so that prospective new...
  9. Aaron L

    D&D 5E Come out and put yourself on the Gygax scale!

    G3.5? I love to have a good story, but I like the story to arise out of the gameplay and interactions between players/characters, not to be forced upon the players by the DM (we've tried campaigns like the latter and they ended up going... poorly.) Emergent storytelling, you might say. But if...
  10. Aaron L

    Stranger Things Loses its Mind

    I just took it as proof that the Duffer Brothers were actual current players, as opposed to mining half-remembered things from childhood. Which was confirmed in the Beyond Stranger things after-episode commentaries. ;)
  11. Aaron L

    The Original End Goal of Dungeons & Dragons

    We almost always ended up as Lords and Ladies and such in our 1E games. Everyone would usually end up with a title and be Barons, Dukes, and eventually Kings of our own domains (which was the progression of my highest level 1E character, the Ranger Malachi.) We'd find a suitable site, build a...
  12. Aaron L

    Check Out The Forge Domain From Xanathar's Guide

    The fantastic parts should look fantastic. Dragons and magic and such... but things that existed and exist in the real world should look like they do in the real world, otherwise it all just devolves into visual gibberish. Why not have "humans" be nine feet tall and blue with three arms...
  13. Aaron L

    Who Needs Iconics Anyway?

    Gutboy Barrelhouse!
  14. Aaron L

    D&D 5E Resting and the frikkin' Elephant in the Room

    I don't have full 8 hour rests heal the PCs all the way up to full HP. I just don't like it; I much prefer the 1st Edition feel of PCs potentially getting hurt so badly it may take weeks and months to fully heal. They have to spend Hit Dice to heal during an 8 hour rest just like a 1 hour...
  15. Aaron L

    D&D 5E What does it mean to you for a character/class to be "good in melee"?

    Really? Wow, I don't understated that attitude at all. This is something that I especially LOVE about 5E; it eliminates "Phantom Proficiency" and means that being Proficient with a weapon actually really means something. Sure, in 3E Elven Wizards were technically Proficient with the...
  16. Aaron L

    D&D 5E What does it mean to you for a character/class to be "good in melee"?

    Good Hit Points, decent AC, decent damage, more than one attack per round (eventually.) And the more than one attack per round is especially important to me; without more than one, I just feel like it's missing something (mo matter how much damage you accomplish in that one attack, just "one...
  17. Aaron L

    Gary Gygax/TSR FBI Files - Looking For the Unabomber at TSR??!!

    Gah! Sorry, Morrus! I did a search for "Gygax FBI" using the bar at the top of the page but it didn't turn anything up... I must not have done it right, or I just should have been more thorough. You can go ahead and delete this thread, if you'd like. No need for yet another thread cluttering...
  18. Aaron L

    Gary Gygax/TSR FBI Files - Looking For the Unabomber at TSR??!!

    I looked through the forums but didn't see anything about this posted anywhere, and I thought it was absolutely interesting enough to warrant discussion on the forums. Apparently the FBI had Gary, and TSR in general, under surveillance for possible connections to the Unabomber case. Here's a...
  19. Aaron L

    The Modern History of the Fantasy Fireball

    I'm pretty certain that yards/feet vis a vis outdoors/indoors for ranged attacks only affected range, not area of effect. (That's how we've always interpreted it.) The DMG explains it as being from superior ceiling height and visibility conditions (therefore you could arc a missile rather than...
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