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Well it's really no mystery. There were nineteen party members exploring the ground floor of a Chaotic Evil temple — dungeon level A1, the Palatial Fortress of the Church of Bitter Doom — and only two of them died. (Given this party's track-record, that's actually pretty stellar.) Poor Tommy...

17/19ths of the party survived!

I'm willing to help with whatever it is that you're asking for. Maybe you'd like to restate and clarify what exactly that is?

I don't believe there was any "splitting" going on. It's a mistake to even think of it that way. When D&D was first published, there were three classes — fighting man, magic-user, and cleric — and the game needed three separate "stats" to serve as the prime requisites for those classes, to tell...

For Victorian steampunk or gaslamp fantasy, I literally wrote the book and called it Engines & Empires. :D There's also Offices & Bosses for any Hello from the Magic Tavern fans out there.

Gygax didn't create the ranger class.

Acererak is a demi-lich, so I think the math works out to just one keet. :unsure:

I'm sure they could have gotten Maurice LaMarche if they'd wanted to voice Egon. (I'm not saying it would've been a good idea, but it certainly would've been S-tier fanservice on par with the Bill Murray → Peter Venkman → Lorenzo Music → Garfield the Cat → Bill Murray loop.)

3d6 in order for me. Simple; pure; nips stat bloat and power-gaming in the bud.

The d12 is the heavenly die, the one whose shape is classically associated with the fifth element. (d4 = fire, d6 = earth, d8 = air, d20 = water, d12 = ether/quintessence)

Egads. I could not take Stranger Things seriously from the moment these 80s kids opened up their AD&D 1st Edition manuals and started rattling off lore about the "Feywild" and the "Shadowfell."

I'm running my "Shade Isle" Campaign, where the player characters are exiles abandoned on an island poenal colony by a tyrannical police-state with a horrific ulterior motive for disposing of its criminals and malcontents in such a fashion. I don't need to prep a lot of content week to week...

I can't imagine why the OP would care about that, given that this whole thread is about one table's search for an appropriate house-rule.

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Tradition is familiar. It's comfortable and comforting. It provides a common ground and even a common language for those who also share that tradition. Fireball is a 3rd level spell. Chainmail is AC 5. Fighters, mages, clerics, and thieves. Elves, dwarves, gnomes, and hobbits. It just gives you...

I just want to jump in here and point out that D&D druids having the ability shapeshift is attributable to Celtic mythological figures like Cathbad, Midir, Etain, etc. Freaking everybody is always shapeshifting into something or other in Celtic mythology, and even though it's not specifically a...

A 2e bard can just learn the spell…

That's interesting, but neither is there anything in the 2nd edition find familiar spell that stops a 2nd level bard (or a 10th level thief) from doing the same thing! :)

I would have to say that my relationship with 3rd edition D&D is very "love–hate," in that I loved it right up until the day that I hated it. I started gaming seriously in the late 90s, so I was primed to be caught up in the hype over 3e's release (raise your hand if you remember checking this...