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Animated Armor 22 Bronze Scout 15 Cadaver Collector 20 Flesh Golem 25 Flying Sword 23 Helmed Horror 24 Homunculus 9 Iron Golem 25 Marut 19 Retriever 19 Rug of Smothering 12 Scarecrow 15 Shield Guardian 23 Steel Predator 24 Stone Defender 20

Animated Armor 22 Bronze Scout 14 Cadaver Collector 19 Flesh Golem 25 Flying Sword 23 Helmed Horror 23 Homunculus 12 Iron Cobra 9 Iron Golem 26 Marut 21 Pentadrone 1 Retriever 21 Rug of Smothering 17 Scarecrow 15 Shield Guardian 23 Steel Predator 23 Stone Cursed 9 Stone Defender 20

My votes. Keep in mind that I started playing in 1991, but never played through most of these and didn't read them (in PDF, generally) until the 2000s. So my vote tends to be more "do these still hold up" than nostalgia. B4 The Lost City: I remember reading through the B-series modules and...

I backed this one the other day. Fellow ENworlders - you should too!

Animated Armor 23 Bronze Scout 14 Cadaver Collector 19 Flesh Golem 24 Flying Sword 24 Helmed Horror 22 Homunculus 16 Iron Cobra 12 Iron Golem 25 Marut 21 Pentadrone 10 Quadrone 11 Retriever 21 Rug of Smothering 16 Scarecrow 20 Shield Guardian 22 Steel Predator 24 Stone Cursed 12 Stone Defender...

Yes! I was very happy when I saw, to my surprise, several of those old 2e books listed as recommended reading in the 5e PHB. 3rd and 4th edition always seemed to try to ignore all content from earlier editions and exist in this kind of hermetically sealed D&D-o-sphere. I've been thrilled to see...

IT AVAILED THEM NOT IN THE SCREAMING PLACE...

Animated Armor 24 Bronze Scout 16 Cadaver Collector 18 Duodrone 5 Flesh Golem 23 Flying Sword 24 Hellfire Engine 16 Helmed Horror 23 Homunculus 18 Iron Cobra 16 Iron Golem 28 Marut 19 Pentadrone 15 Quadrone 19 Retriever 18 Rug of Smothering 18 Scarecrow 20 Shield Guardian 26...

Yes. "Commercial", to me, is WotC, Paizo and others shipping glossy HCs to B&N. While there are offerings on DriveThru RPG that I'd consider in this league, there's an awful lot that is just the 2020 equivalent of "Send $1 and a S.A.S.E. to get a copy of Larry's Homemade Grimoire" in 1985. It...

I guess I'm not sure when this golden age of independent content creation was, if not the 2010s-now. 70s and 80s? It's fun to browse through old zines and what indie publishing houses put out back then, but use it at the table? 95% of it was junk. Not to mention there was a lot of stabbing in...

Most settings are now being written as brief zines and single documents... the idea of supporting a huge setting with dozens of books really isn't the thing anymore. Maybe I'm weird in that I prefer that over the "old way".

Have you guys seriously been looking through the stuff that passes through this website each week, specifically kickstarter? I mean, I'm not sure we're looking at the same material here... I just dropped about $800 in pledges to about 30 kickstarters in the past month... there's so much...

What do you mean?

A lot of it is free or "pay what you will". In any case, the internet today makes it easier than ever to get a little monetization for your work - why would you totally give it away for free? But it's definitely still homebrew in spirit...

So just like when we were kids!

World Builder's Guidebook and Dungeon Builder's Guidebook - essential! D&D Rules Cyclopedia - still my favorite domain and mass combat rules. Michael Morris' (what ever happened to him, anyway?) 2nd edition Dusk books - he had a great events and timelines generator that is very handy A...

I couldn't disagree more. I feel like we're buried in creations right now!

Platinum age? Diamond age? Having played since 1991... I'd say it's the best age. Web communities and crowdfunding have created a new boom in creativity, with many different voices and perspectives coming into the hobby we haven't seen much of before. The hobby has become much, much more...

Having played every edition from Black Box/Rules Cyclopedia and 2nd Edition AD&D through 5E: Yes, 5e RAW is the least challenging edition. But it is like D&D with training wheels - unlike previous editions, which were generally written to be run in a given way, 5E was intended to be moddable...

I think of my general approach to campaigns these days as "Wheel of Time" if it had been written by Fritz Lieber and adapted into a miniseries by Quentin Tarantino. Which is to say, epic and dark- yet filled with sarcasm, gallows humor, weirdness and ironic references to numerous D&D...