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schnee's been around for a while. Aside from a join date of 2004, I can remember interacting with him(?) on a few occasions. Come to think of it, there may be a history of thread necromancy.

Your question doesn't make any sense. Aasimars are the scions of celestials (angels), not gods. I suppose you could statistically represent Heracles' great-great-great-grandbaby as an aasimar, but it's not a core assumption of the race. As a GM, you could decide that's the case for you game, but...

I'm actually not a huge collector of monsters. My campaigns tend to be a bit more city and intrigue based. That made VttM pretty easy to pass up. Now, fiends and undead are a bit more interesting, because they don't really have an ecology and can be inserted into games as minions or masters...

Meant to reply to this earlier..... Good to know. It's the one that pretty much turned me off to anything folks said was FRINO (Forgotten Realms in Name Only) -- which means I've only looked at the starter set, PotA, and Curse of Strahd -- other than HotDQ. Funny enough, I actually kinda liked...

This is the closest. Merriam Webster defines Ethereal as: lacking material substance. There are other definitions, but that's the important one, for our purposes. If the astral plane is where the mind/soul goes when it leaves the body, the ethereal is where the body goes when it... um...

I just stumbled across a digital copy of Dragon #1 and it contains an article on GenCon 1976. I thought I post a couple excerpts, just for a sense of scale: I found it interesting that Fritz Leiber was a guest. Also that D&D was referred to as a "miniatures game" -- or had an event run as a...

I kinda remember liking the Deep Stalker, in spite of my baser instincts (not a huge fan of the Underdark). It might be because we use the UA variant, so there may have been some synergy, there. The Ranger in the group is a Hunter, so I can't recall. I actually rather like the sound of the...

I can't argue with the aesthetics. It is a bit jarring, visually. Fortunately, for me, I seem to have a knack for mimicking phonetic patterns. Once I get a feel for a language, I can usually come up with BS words that sound good enough to non-speakers to maintain "immersion". I'm sure I'd drive...

Excellent article. Personally, I think the roots in minis still significantly impacts D&D. The step-stones of levels make a lot of sense when you're talking about how a "fighting-man" is as a leader and solo "hero" on the field. A first-level fighter is about as effective as a stand of grunts...

http://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ Not knocking anyone who wants it in print. Just providing a bookmark-able link to put it all in one spot . I've found that site to be reasonably good. I don't like any singular list of names, as there's some aesthetic sense to it (I've found that the gender...

I'll fully cop to being down on the Realms and extremely turned off by the apparent intent for WotC to use Realms IP to name generic books. I'm especially annoyed that they picked a stupid name, regardless of origin, for this book. I can hardly say the name "Xanathar" without feeling like an...

My only concern with 5E mirroring PF is in tightly coupling to a single published world, rather than a variety and/or home brew. Mechanically, I think we're still safe.

Oh, I get it. If it was Greyhawk or Eberron, I'd probably have succumbed to the path of least resistance by now. I still wouldn't have appreciated the positioning, but I like those two settings well enough to consider them when I'm not doing homebrew, anyway. In truth, if they did a new "Nentir...

It's hit and miss. Some (Tyranny of Dragons) are nigh impossible to remove without pretty much just using the adventure for inspiration and a few locales. Others (Princes of the Apocalypse) aren't too bad, but the advice on porting them aren't great -- I genuinely appreciate the effort, but they...

The Realms is not appropriate for homebrew. Just because it started that way is irrelevant. It is a published setting and using it is pretty much the opposite of homebrew. Core D&D is suitable for generic pseudo-medieval fantasy. Once you start throwing the maps, factions, gods, etc. of the...

Almost. Part of what I'm saying is that the move away from multiple published settings is intentional on the part of WotC, as is the watering down of the Realms. Neither of those are secrets. As you said, going too deep or too broad with settings has been shown to be not profitable. The really...

A couple of reasons: 1) I want someone else to do the work for me. I really don't want to have to convert all the Eberron bits and pieces to a new system -- and they do need converted as many are built with 3.5 assumptions. While I enjoy the creative aspect of gaming, D&D is attractive compared...

Not a direct reply so much as just pinging your most recent message. That sucks, man. I've been a consistent user of your sheet since pretty close to the beginning. It was worth what I dropped in the tip jar and then some. I'll have to check out the Patreon page and see how things go. Best...

I've only seen one multi-class PC in 5E. Other editions vary, but that's the way this one has gone. The lone multi-classer was not happy with his decision. I don't think it was a power issue so much as it was the way the character personality developed.

Likewise. Right up until, say, the initial round of PCs is all vaguely Oriental, so I build a local setting around that, leaving out elves, dwarves, and orcs intentionally because how often do you see a setting without those? Then, one player decides, two months in, that he doesn't like his...