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Very cool; I'd never seen that before, thanks! I just don't like the idea of PCs getting into huge, 5 minute long, knock-down, drag-out fights, coming out with 1 Hit Point, a broken leg, and a punctured lung... and being perfectly fine the very next morning after a good night's sleep. It just...

Yeah 3E was pretty good, healing at 1 x level per day.

This is why I immensely prefer the way healing was handled in the 1st and 2nd Editions of D&D to how it is handled in 5th Edition. PCs healed only 1 Hit Point per day of bedrest, and got to add their Constitution bonus at the end of a full week. Nothing like 5th Edition's complete regaining of...

All of these Beadle & Grimm's deluxe boxed sets just look utterly gorgeous, and I think it is so cool that it is Matthew Lillard doing it. I've always liked the guy ever since I first saw him in Hackers, and I just love the fact that he's One of Us... a big D&D nerd. Such a big damn nerd that...

Looks like a proper god-killing abomination to me, so well done!

I am seriously hoping that "subversive approach to the game" does not mean "D&D players from Earth being hurled into a D&D world!" (which would almost certainly mean the Forgotten Realms.) That kind of cheap garbage plot would be awful. It was passable for a Saturday morning cartoon in the...

I much, much, much prefer the way Tieflings were originally portrayed, as unique individual descendants of fiendish ancestors, each with their own unique individual deformity. Seeing as how the idea behind Tieflings came from the Medieval idea that birth deformities were caused by the sins of...

Not to mention the Lovecraftian eldritch alien horror of Bluetspur! There was a short Ravenloft story written by Mouseferatu several years ago, about a survivor who just barely make it out of Bluetspur, only to find that he didn't make it quite as far as he had believed. It was really, really...

Coooolnessss. I'm not a fan of Strahd wearing bright colors, as they like to paint him recently. It makes him look like a Vistani. Strahd favored conservative tailored layers of black over red. In fact, I'm not a fan of how they have been visually portraying Strahd at all, with the long hair...

This is only tangentially related to this post, but I remember many years ago (either the late '90s or early 2000s) reading something I found on some Internet forum somewhere that was an account of the main characters from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time playing a game of American Football...

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I really like the spells. Raulothim's Psychic Lance is especially cool.

The Greyhawk Adventures hardback, published right on the cusp of 2nd Edition's release, had a system for creating 0-Level PCs who worked their way up to full 1st Level characters based on a sort of training points system, and could even end up with a customized Class based on what Class(s)...

Huh, that's weird; our group has always had the feeling that it is far too difficult for a PC to actually die in 5th Edition. Compared to our old 1E campaigns, our 5E PCs feel practically immortal.

Yes, friggin' absolutely. That might help put a stop to the endless cycle of kill-monsters-to-get-XP-to-kill-tougher-monsters-to-get-more-XP. 3E's change to XP being solely gained through monster killing may not have exactly created the murderhobo, but it sure as Hell exacerbated the problem...

Dragonpeople.

This old mail lady can whup your ass! I love it. :)

I never played Rolemaster personally, but I've read through the books and our gaming group has all joked about the critical hit/fumble tables for decades. We still talk about rolling a 1 and tripping over an invisible, imaginary, deceased turtle. Right now I'm exhausted. Just finished our...

I didn't know about Car Wars 6th Edition. I'd buy that in a heartbeep.