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Started around 1983 with BECMI and 1e. Transitioned to 2E for AD&D but still played a lot of BECMI. Super excited when 3E came out. Got away from 3E in about 2005 or 2006 due to fatherhood. Missed 4E entirely due to being a dad. Came back to 5E thanks to my kids taking an interest in it...

Probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway... Use what you want from my stuff, ignore what you don't, and if I published stuff you think is stupid... you're probably right. I'm not offended if you think some of my stuff is bad. Use what you find useful, ignore the rest.

And this is what I wanted to avoid, which is why I made my stuff free. I have several out-of-print physical books (mostly not RPGs) that were very hard to acquire and I think copyright orphaning is a very real problem in the world and we need to figure out how to fix that problem in copyright...

Thank you, Alzrius! It's been a while but I think my motivation there was a combination of wanting to figure out how to get around the problem of "multiclassing dips for just one ability" but also to give those that publishers that designed Prestige Classes some guardrails to make sure that they...

SPOILERS AHEAD (which I really shouldn't have to do for a 30+ year old work but whatever) I would say the radiance is tangentially related - in that the seminal event that caused the Shadow Elves to flee underground (the Great Rain of Fire) has a common source with the Radiance. I would also...

Seconded. I feel like newer gamers want a VTT that calculates bonuses from all their status effects, keeps their character sheets, tracks all their rolls for them, etc. I tried Foundry and Fantasy Grounds and found it was all way too much bother. I want about a 5 minute setup (upload maps...

Random thought: If your library is still of the variety that has some physical books (and not just computers and e-readers), you might consider making a donation of a Players' Handbook or two (perhaps ask them to keep it in the "Reference Section" where it can't be checked out so they don't get...

If I may self plug a tiny bit, take a look at The Enchiridion of Treasures and Objects D’art (link: DriveThruRPG ) - was designed for 3e, has a low magic system based on the material used to make stuff, an alternate economic system, and was made free for all once sales petered off 20 ish years...

No, you have Gish galloping right. It also usually includes a bad faith element of ”even though you refuted the vast majority of my points, you missed refuting a single point out of all of them thus clearly my argument is valid”

I would generally say the “fundamental forces” are those for which we have to assume “this is a basic rule of how things interact” instead of “this is a rule that emerges from application of other rules.” As mentioned above, the electromagnetic and gravitational forces are generally responsible...

“The Weave” is the Faerun (Forgotten Realms) term. I am not the biggest fan of the Mystara term (“The Radiance”) but to avoid too much in spoilers I will say in BECMI (and 1e and 2e) magic seems to work similar to radiation, including thin sheets of lead (or thicker layers of other material)...

Used my college’s computer lab and printers to read (and print some stuff out) daily. I remember the days when ENWorld wasn’t around yet, it was just Eric Noah’s rumors site. @Morrus you have done an admirable job keeping the community going in the 20+ years since. Cheers, brother!

I think those who want to self-style as “system masters” are stroking their own ego. In the Bartle taxonomy, they are almost universally “killers” that exhibit focus over a single item in the system (usually damage output), not mastery over the entire system. They then attempt to bludgeon the...

As a DM if I want to ensure PC death, I can always fall back on infinity dragons. This to me has derailed from “do players want balance” to something else entirely… a complaint about how the game isn’t deadly enough .. or too deadly. Let’s go back to the original question. I liked the post...

Sorry, no. Since the premise baked into a “+” thread is “no dissenting sentiment is permitted” it is not a trustworthy source for showing something is logically consistent - anyone pointing out problems/inconsistencies has been preemptively banned from the thread so OF COURSE it looks logically...

Agreed, and this is usually couched in the language of “I want escapism/fantasy.” There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, but we need to make sure we are having discussions where the language reflects this, players that want this style of game should not be talking about “balance” but...

Part of the problem seems to be that people see D&D as a “game” and when people play games, they want to “win.” I can’t recall where, but I saw a YouTube video on game design and balance where the psychology of games was discussed and I recall the statement that “players perceive a PVP game to...

Not saying it's per se "better," but there's a pretty famous moment where fleeing happens in some of D&D's seminal fiction... "Fly, you fools!" ;)

For some reason this seems to be the hardest lesson for some players

The magic user in 1E/BECMI was usually the character with the highest Intelligence score. As such, I tended to play him as the "general" in the group; the one tracking the positions of enemies, communicating tactics to the front-liners (suggestions, not orders), tossing a spare quiver of arrows...