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Nice! They thought 'All your module belong to us!'. Reminds me of "Backstroke of the West' - a horrible subtitling of revenge of the sith. The best mis-translation was 'Jedi Council' as 'Presbyterian Church'.... who knew? Damn Kirkists!

And then there's those of us that love setting-neutral sandboxes.... I get that some people hate sandboxes. I and one of the groups I game with pretty much despise railroads, three-act-structure, and the lack of agency that carefully laid out encounters and pre-ordained plots and finales...

And then there's those of us that love setting-neutral sandboxes.... I get that some people hate sandboxes. I and one of the groups I game with pretty much despise railroads, three-act-structure, and the lack of agency that carefully laid out encounters and pre-ordained plots and finales...

In Greyhawk, Saltmarsh canonically lies in the south of Keoland, on the coast of the Azure sea, not far from the Hool Marshes. Guidance in the 3.5 DMG II relating to integrating SM into Faerun suggests two options: 1) Located on the Sword Coast a few days south of Baldur's Gate 2) On the Inner...

Let me also ask for some tales of Gamma World's invention. The game was a bit wacky (some really special combinations could arise...) and the early dice were... not the quality of later ones, let's just say. But the game itself was a huge springboard for imagination and we loved playing it. I...

Let me also ask for some tales of Gamma World's invention. The game was a bit wacky (some really special combinations could arise...) and the early dice were... not the quality of later ones, let's just say. But the game itself was a huge springboard for imagination and we loved playing it. I...

Crypt of Earth Hook: People have been disappearing from the local village and surrounds. The party has an NPC they have met and had a positive relationship with disappear. The party sets out to locate the missing NPC. They find earth at the scene that differs, eventually they can identify the...

Good data here. Thoughts from my past and present experience: I was a player in an underdark party. We were in a dark underground city with all sorts of underdark races. One of the PCs got into trouble in a temple (mucking about). It cost him his hand and we were all captured. We were to...

I don't usually see a problem at the table, but then again the players often like to just roll a physical dice. We use voice for narrating, conversing, etc. The only typing needed is for private messages. I'm also not saying I'm against 'the magic' in some VTT designs. BUT, a) can't afford...

Reading a full IP like a PHB or DMG seems like a big effort. Preparing a digital version of something that largely depends on other core rulebooks (such as the PHB) seems to me like it should be a lot less time-consuming. The context of the discussion was the amount of work required to enter a...

On the font front, because we are aging and designers and authors need to consider their audience, the serif and non serif fonts have different characteristics; For small fonts (which for me now includes about 10 or 11 pt fonts, 12 pt on some fonts), the non-serif helps avoid the letters...

I kind of like Dyson's spartan style. Then again, my daughter loves bright neon colours, glitter, and lots of what to me feels like overwhelming visual clutter, so I tend almost uniformly to look for the more minimalist and spartan in terms of aesthetics of design. (Doubly so in my work on UIs)...

My thinking goes like this: Assuming there are a fair number of folks like me with a budget, who are frustrated by paying multiple times for the same (or only slightly different) content (like paying the same for a PDF and a hardcover...) or who are priced out of the market because of the cost...

There's part of the issue: If they went about things differently, the amount of labour to integrate new things (especially those primarily relying on existing rules albeit in different combinations or with different flavour) would not be so lengthy. I have no doubt it could take that long for a...

I get some of your point - I looked at FG and DnDBeyond and both wanted me to pay an additional $30ish for PHB content (even though I had a hard copy PHB). I know there is work in conversions, but one hopes it isn't the same cost as all of the development and creativity in the original product...

As to FR placement: Keep in mind, most of the campaign map rivers are a fair size. There are undoubtedly others and the one in the Saltmarsh map doesn't look huge. As to colour maps: Sorry, not in favour. I like clean references. Even if I'm on a VTT, but doubly so if I'm laying the thing on...

This whole focus on a couple of words that has triggered moderation and long diatribes is ridiculous. It is at best tertiary and by far that as part of a discussion of stat block formatting which is the matter at hand. This is not a political forum. Having said that: Half the reason I haven't...

If I recall correctly, the assumption back then was always that the majority of spell energy was drawn from elsewhere and only a small amount was needed to trigger the effect (because the full amount to power a fireball would kill a mage). This was just a 'how does it work' explanation, but it...

If you've ever run a miniatures game, you've definitely at some point had to substitute a mini you have for one you don't or that isn't made. Heck, I've had to augment my goblins or kobolds with the infamous D6 goblins for support... kind of breaks the imagery but less than infinite budgets and...

I know we generally view stereotypes as being problematic and that's fair, but most stereotypes originate from a broad characterization of a group (or some aspect of one) and usually that is at least partially based on something real. It's certainly not true, for instance, that all nerds or...