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Per what I was saying in #117 last page, I think a lot of the problems stem from posting as if conservations are threaded (coming from a Twitter or Reddit-style zeitgeist back to a bulletin board), when posts are shown linerally. That’s an issue that we can’t really change — and it would be...

I’m curious when the switch from more shorter threads to fewer longer threads fuller realized itself. Was it when the forum view defaulted into “everything on one page,” or was it a matter of new folks coming in (either from other forums/commenting sources or just as new 5e fans) and posting...

Nice. Having played a lot of D&D (and WEG Star Wars) at scout camp back in the day, and enjoyed annual week-long summer camp as both a scout and an adult leader, this fits perfectly! From reading what you’ve got planned here, I’m guessing it’s pretty open-table? We always had various activities...

Original vs. Kelvinverse-timeline Dragonlance. That’s what happens when you let kender play too often with the Device of Time Journeying… (I’d personally just attribute any radically-changed Dragonlance to be the answer to “what took Krynn’s place in Krynnspace when Takhisis stole the world...

[Here Be Spoilers for War of Souls] As the War of Souls and Weis’s Mina trilogy further depicted things, I’ve gotten the sense that Dragonlance gods are (as always shown) a bit weird in their divinity. There’s always the notion of High God and his “calling from beyond” of beings to grant divine...

You could probably adapt the sidekick class rules for that sort of play, either having the Expert and Warrior characters multiclass into proper classes as they discover the new world or replace their sidekick levels with proper classes at some certain point (whether having three levels of one...

Evasion works in D&D the same way that Hit Points works in D&D: the physics are different. I’m not even referring to Magic existing, but that the characters and the world around them aren’t made of matter and molecules and atoms. It’s a universe where everything is built of elements like...

Between this and reading Perkins talking about the Oz and Bradbury elements at play is his Gizmodo interview (along with joking about conflicts to be resolved without fighting), there seems to be some nice old-school — and I mean really old-school, Gygax sends the party to Barsoom, elements at...

1. What is your name? 2. What is your quest? 3. What is your favorite color?

I’ve commented on numerous occasions how I half-expect WotC to use any Dragonlance project as their vector for mass combat and war rules (possibly even something akin to a domain system, inasmuch as most of Krynn’s major characters are lower level than in places like Faerun — 1st edition...

Booky McBookface.

I’m curious if we may see a Planescape/Spelljammer/Planejammer product which is more of a literal toolkit, in the sense of determining travel via different mechanisms than dice and tables (think of the deck in Ravenloft) to simulate just how other that passage is?

Drop Bear puts me in mind of Power Word Whale. Back in 2nd Edition, we were fighting a dragon in a chamber that funneled down from a wide open space up top to a tighter area below where we were and the dragon would come down to engage us (before flying back up to where he had space to maneuver...

With the Multiverse name and 616 being the designation of the main (comic) Marvel Universe within their multiversal arrangement, I’m curious if there’s some use of their dice mechanic meant to literalize potential outcomes in the narrative? (with Kang the Conquerer right there on the cover, the...

This is I’ve disliked about the recent design trend in the game, a filing away of the various silos in which a player keeps the large design chunks of their character. D&D has always been built largely on the engine of “get your Ability Scores, pick your Race, pick your Class,” with those...

In terms of the metaphysics of 1st edition, I can see their logic. There was a very classical soul/body distinction in Gygaxian planar logic (The Alexandrian blog is actually in the midst of a fun series discussing that), so the Polymorph spell here would have free reign in transforming the...

I’ve made this comment on other threads, but… When a group of characters in a standard campaign are causing too much trouble for the powers that be, they wake up one morning in effectively The Village from The Prisoner, stuck in a domain of conspiracy horror with their very perceptions being...

Targeting downed characters depends largely on the type of monster involved. Ghouls will go to finish off a waiting meal, while bandits will just try to knock everyone unconscious so they can loot them and get away (if one or two are killed instead, so be it). A large beast may grab a body and...

The Underdark is basically a giant dungeon. How about the name “Dungeons and Dragons”?