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No, it means that it should land on a 10 exactly as often as it lands on an 11. Thus, the mean average being 10.5 - right in the middle. Also, physics.

At school I try to use RAW as much as possible, so that students aren't confused when they (hopefully) move onto other campaigns. At home I've used many, such as: Druids use the 2014 rules for shapeshifting. If your character goes to 0 HP, they roll on a critical hit table. No weapon...

To be clear, I was not responding to a claim that “we used formations with magic users in the back” (because obviously), I was responding to this specific description of gameplay. That does not sound like any AD&D I ever played, saw, or read described in Dragon magazine, TSR modules, etc. it...

Quite the opposite - they were actively working against attempts to give them a reason to adventure! And going on an adventure is the basic premise of D&D! I think this is going to be the main issue with doing a seriously tragic storyline line in D&D - if there are players (demonstrably) who...

You'd think it would be that simple, but Gary Gygax was able to argue that Lawful Good is fully consistent with paladins murdering babies, so... Virtues ethics.

What I don't get is the vitriol against WotC for doing what I assume most of us agree they should do - let this use of their IP happen. And they did it right quick! Of course they are going to hit pause when someone appropriates their stuff without asking, in violation of their stated policies...

But they are demonstrably NOT being deeply litigious. This is like bizarro world, where big company agrees to let little guy use their stuff for free, and we damn them for it. SO TERRIBLE! They are apologizing in the wrong way! Those MONSTERS! Guy violates WotC's openly published and easily...

So this is a list of virtues ethics. Which really is a more clearly explained example of what D&D already did. My issues with alignment are just as strong here as in any other version: real people are more complicated. For example, attacking and killing an unarmed foe is here listed amongst...

Not mine, and not even in 5e in general, where all fiends are not listed as "evil."

They literally apologize in the quotation you cite: "we are sorry about that." How is that a deflection? So, to clarify: 1. Someone makes a mod using WotC's IP in a way that has been clearly and publicly prohibited by WotC. 2. WotC/WotC's subcontractor issue a copyright strike that they are...

That sounds like calling ideology alignment, rather than actually doing something interesting with alignment.

You could argue that if you ignore his sadistic pleasure in beating people to death.

Fanfic stuff looks like fanfic stuff.

So, anecdotes. Not evidence. Evidence would be, for example, showing numbers proving that there has been an exodus from DDB and a commensurate growth in Roll20's user base. Which would still only be a correlation, but a highly suggestive one. You are directing me to a bunch of forum chatter...

I would love to see Becky Chambers' Wayfarer trilogy turned into a prestige series.

This, I strongly disagree with. I think alignment is anathema to good roleplaying because people don't actually behave like that. Best case scenario is entertaining caricatures like the paladin in Honour Among Thieves. Actors and writers don't create characters using "alignment."

Almost every game.

It can be whatever you want at your table, though you are obviously taking something from sorcerers. On the other hand, I think sorcerer should have always been a wizard subclass anyway.

He was a new player to my table. Not a new player to D&D. I'm trying to figure out if the situation is salvageable. I've had a few players over the years who seem to like being difficult and contrary by refusing or actively working against the obvious bread crumbs. I put a lot of work into...

Yeah, damn them for correcting the situation as soon as it was brought to their attention!