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I want to avoid HD for that very reason, but it's hard to do! Lowe's and HD are pretty much the only places left to go if I need appliances, hardware, etc. and don't want to buy sight-unseen (or with shipping costs and delays) online. The HD and Lowe's in my town are just about next door to...

The promised photos: Recently went a little crazy on a build for the Wild Sheep Chase: When I knew there'd be a fight in a tavern: In my Mighty Protectors campaign, when aliens take over a cargo ship and build a creepy biotech power plant inside: Dragon's tower at Thundertree:

I've been making a lot of terrain and printing a lot of minis, but what ends up on my table varies according to a lot of factors. Do I know ahead of time more or less where the players plan to go, so I can set up an important area or two ahead of time? Can a scene be thrown together quickly on...

Not exactly a mount per se, but this weekend my daughter's dragonborn barbarian made a rope harness so she could carry a sheep (actually a wizard polymorphed into a sheep) around like it was in one of those front-mounted baby carriers. The sheep squirmed and protested a lot, but this solution...

I did a sort of lightweight version of this in my Mighty Protectors campaign. My players were plucked from a near-death situation into a simulated fantasy world for the amusement of some powerful interstellar entities, where their tech and non-physical-based powers were suppressed and they were...

While running my current campaign out of published Forgotten Realms material, I'm planning ahead for the next one in a custom setting. The approach I'm taking is a little bit top-down and a little bit bottom-up. The setting will involve two worlds and a cataclysmic event which will provide the...

Yep, and if I remember correctly, that particular story was begun while he was hospitalized recovering from trench fever - possibly having seen or heard about the first use of tanks in warfare. The Ents were allegedly a response to technology as well; supposedly the idea for them sprang up as...

I had a book published around 2005-ish by a traditional publisher, because e-books hadn't quite reached legitimacy at the time and I found a company that was branching out into a new fantasy line and liked my work. It's been out of print for a while and the rights reverted to me, so I went...

It felt like somebody threw the scripts for Inception, Alien, and Arrival into a blender with a handful of Archie comics. I'm still wondering if most of what appears to happen in has actually happened, and not sure if I care. That said, if it gets a season 2 I'll probably watch it. :)

Interestingly some of Tolkien's early writings that formed the basis for the history of Middle-Earth did involve more modernized technology - the original story of the fall of Gondolin talked of the city being overrun not by dragons but by fire-spewing machines.

I actually more or less agree :) But I bounce back and forth these days between D&D and Mighty Protectors (which does it the "right" way) and it's one of the mechanics from the latter that I prefer over how D&D does it. MP, of course, doesn't have a ubiquitous Monster Manual, published...

Armor class is dumb. "To hit" should be agility/range/etc-based, and different kinds of armor should resist certain amounts of damage by type. Yeah, you'd have to figure this out for every monster and every defensive item so it's not gonna happen, but I just like the idea of the AC mechanic...

In the mid 80s the couple of small and occasional groups of gamers I played with just kind of drifted apart, pulled away by the usual stuff - jobs, school, dating, etc. Through college, marriage, career, and parenthood, I always kind of had it in the back of my head that I'd like to get back...

I'm a little bit of an outlier in that my relatively recent return to tabletop gaming (been away since the early 80s) actually started with a non-D&D game (Mighty Protectors) and ended up leading me into 5e. Partly because I wanted to do something in the fantasy genre, and partly because D&D...

Beat saber with the sabers re-skinned to look like swords. :) (I'd love to have some real sword training, but time/money/location get in the way...)

I'm not familiar with most of his work but I'm a long-time B5 fan. This message from Joe Straczynski was posted on a lot of B5 related FB groups a few days ago:

I'm gradually "watching" the 1st campaign - up to ep 44 at the moment. I put "watching" in quotes because realistically I'm just sort of listening to it while I'm on the computer working or doing other things. Like right now, as I'm typing this they're trying to find a way into a sunken...

... I found this, which I have no memory of owning and have certainly never played, but it's apparently followed me undiscovered through 2 moves since the early 90s. Anybody tried it?