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Certainly. But I guess the question that jumps to mind is how might approaching prep as a form of play help those DMs who do find it onerous? (Another question being, if some folks find it so onerous , why do they do it?) Again, sure. But it is more unnecessary for some GMs (or systems) than...

Resurrecting this thread because I have been thinking about DM prep and the varying attitudes about it regarding the amount of time it takes and how onerous it might be. Looking back at my original post, I have made so many pieces of terrain of various sizes and degree of detail and literally...

I love the feeling of a well-played one-shot or really any individual session (played the 62nd session of one of ongoing campaigns yesterday and it was a great one). Sounds like it went great and your notes look like you thought through a bunch of fun possibilities. Like others, however, I...

We just finished this session a couple of hours ago. .. Quick recap The group's Long Rest is interrupted by Birdbrainbeakedopus (aka Grell) and some Volts. Using strategic combat tactics and spells, they defeat the aberrant creatures. After an easier and faster trip downriver, they have another...

This is similar to my Vanity Frankenstein 5E project. (<-- some of the things the intro post<s> describe are no longer true as the rules have developed - but near the end is a link to a google drive with PDFs for the chapters as they currently-ish stand).

What i like about my stat draft method is that I can throw a few low scores on the array for those who want to choose them (without someone having to have one if they don’t) and the benefit is that the person who chooses the lowest score each round picks first the next.

My bad for assuming. I never played either version. Can't remember what the actual rule was for B/X (which is what I started with), as except for the GLARING differences (no multiclassing, race as class, etc), I get a lot of pre-3E stuff mixed up, since well, we generally played with stuff from...

Only on a roll of 96-00 on the percentage roll as part of the actual disarm attempt. But traps can still be accidentally set off by the actions of other characters while the thief does their thing AND taking the time to do it could lead to an additional wandering monster roll, all three of which...

Personally, I love an opportunity to say something like "Several days pass as you. . ." (whatever it is the players tell me they want to do), but I guess like some others, I let the players set that pace and give me opportunities to move time forward. That said, I generally only speed up time...

My online group claims to like the slow pace, though I think part of that is - as someone else mentioned - is no one wanting to step on others toes. How slow? It has taken us 60 3-hour sessions over the course of 5 years to play out 15 1/2 weeks of in-game time.

It really depends on the game. But ultimately, I am most interested in it to the degree it might influence my specific character's beliefs and choices engaging with the world. But I don't necessarily have a preference for what that degree should be.

I recently joined an ongoing D&D 5E campaign. The characters were all 8th and 9th level when I joined and I got to make one too. They had been playing together for some time (actually not really sure how long or who else is "new" to this particular campaign - just longer than me). Last night I...

The pizza I am really into currently is a white pizza with feta, broccoli, and red onions. The umami flavor you get from the combo of broccoli and the cheese from the oven is <chef's kiss>

I just wanted to swing to say that once again I started a thread, but X'ed out the window and said, "forget it" before submitting.

Except for one case, every thief I saw in 1E or 2E was a multiclassed character. The one case was a party where people played more than one character, so I played a thief who always was uber cautious and rarely got into direct combat and a elven fighter/magic-user. As for finding and then...

This thread is like an Edition Cold War. :LOL:

I started with B/X-CMI (I never knew there was a difference between my Basic and Expert sets and the continuation in the Companion Set until sometimes in the 2000s!) but dropped it before M and I came out in favor of AD&D. I'd probably try any edition of D&D with the right group (except...

I checked but both my copies, purchased in 2019 and 2021, are 10th printing (2018).

While I created a witch class by modifying the warlock a good deal, I know you are not looking to do that, I did however control for flavor (I didn't want a witch to be much of blaster either) by curating their spell list from among the lists for other classes (mostly wizard, druid, and cleric).