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I am extremely proactive about inclusion in my games, and designed my setting accordingly. It's great to see more mainstream publications finally starting to lean this way too—women, people of colour and people under the LGBT+ umbrella have spent quite enough of our time being sidelined by...

Personally, I'm dead against it. Players should be able to choose the weapon they think is cool, not have the system decide which one is cool, and therefore make it the mechanically superior choice. If they think swords are the coolest, they will be biased towards in a balanced system anyway...

That point is, that should be up to the players to decide. What mandates "evil" about the Blackguard is entirely fluff - "domination", "fury" - and not what the powers or abilities actually do. And lest we forget, the fluff is something we're supposed to be able to change at will. The mechanics...

Oh, absolutely! I am in no way suggesting that the GM shouldn't present an adventure where the BBEG is too powerful to defeat without the heroes inflicting story upon it. Those are great! One GM in our group built a campaign around the concept of researching boss monsters and planning for their...

Obviously your group has its own priorities, but to me most of those old-school effects aren't actually scary. What they are is super super annoying. I remember re-calculating stats and spells on the fly for level and stat drain effects. Entire builds reduced to "I guess I just try to punch it"...

Core all the way. Essentials material is not worthless, and it has its uses, mostly for people who need a pick up & play option. Using the rules interpretation that allows Essentials characters to choose their level-having powers, our veteran group have even found some of them to be quite...

I am absolutely, definitely a system-first person. I inevitably bring my own settings, so I'm really not interested in a system which is heavily tied to a specific, single setting.

Can you give me the full title of those? I've got a bunch of Encounters modules, but this doesn't seem to be among them. Google-fu is only getting me encounters groups in the Netherlands (ashamed to say I did momentarily think "that's a cool name for a kingdom, I wonder what setting that's...

Thanks everybody! I'm grabbing those LFR/Encounters archives now, will see if anything suits my needs. Seems like a great archive to have even if I don't find something for this instance - I'm running homebrew-hacked WotBS right now, but once I'm done with that, I'd love to try my hand at...

Like I said, I tend to use Masterplan - sure, it's a bit silly to keep it around for editing monsters when I don't use its other functions, but it does monster maths for me and that's what really matters. Just getting things to look right isn't something I really need help with (desktop...

No, there was an official offline one, way back when. Came with that "Adventure Tools" loader that promised all the other digital tools they never got around to making (WotC and software are always a fickle mix, I find). It's buggy as heck (I think it's technically a beta), uses older monster...

My group still 4es - not everybody specifically prefers it, but three out of four GMs are very attached to the smoothness of running in 4e. We use a couple of simple variants - to whit, inherent bonuses and free expertise feat - but those are the only major changes we've needed to use. Oh, and...

Yes, three days and three sessions. The plan is to pretty much play all day, for each of those sessions, though I'm sure we will take breaks for food and such :p

Hi everyone! I'd like to ask you all for a little help, if you don't mind! See, I've had word from one of my best friends, who moved away a few years ago and was never able to find a new gaming group. He's visiting soon and wants to hook up with the old group for a hardcore D&D long weekend...

That's me right there. It's not that I haven't looked into 5e, but it seems to be mostly for people who found 4e to be a move away from what they wanted. That's not me; 4e is pretty much my holy land. It's not perfect, to be sure, but it's as close as any system has ever gotten to what I...

I know not everybody will agree, but for me D&D is like Pokemon - it always seems to get better with each new version, even when I didn't necessarily expect it to. I don't always love every change, and I understand why this or that edition isn't to everybody's tastes - but for me it's always...

I'm in a similar situation, except my world map was much too different to the official one, so I had to redo it all. If they're any use to you, I do have (am still in the process of making, really) name-scrubbed versions of various interior and battlemaps. Like if you changed the name of Castle...

Bump for last week! A second round of top-tier rewards (custom sculpted mini) has been released, as well as the gnome/halfling models being added to the lineup early. It's not too late to jump in :D

Ex Manus Classics Collection on Indiegogo (I'm just gonna assume Indiegogo counts as Kickstarter when it comes to forum cladistics :p) So, I have a very talented friend who has been making custom minis for years, who is now finally making a go of it and bringing his minis to the world! This is...

This assessment nails it, for my money. D&D is a toolbox for me, but it's a toolbox designed for making lighthearted, combat-heavy, unrealistic adventure. That's exactly how I like it; I don't need something more generic, and I don't want something more specific.