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I'm afraid you're correct, which makes me sad. I, personally, feel that the semi-generic nature of D&D is one of its best traits and is probably the biggest reason why I still come back to it despite flirtations with other systems. It's always been the game system that best balanced both the...

Link? Curious just how well the conversion works, since PotA was a bit iffy.

Agreed. I had the same recollection, but I don't like relying on random, half-remembered legalize. Nor do I particularly want to comb through the T&C, when there's nothing I can do about it.

I get it. I'm a professional web application developer. The bureaucracy takes its toll, even though it also pays the bills. I would almost guarantee that having extra layer of Curse/WotC licensing is more a multiplicative factor than additive. Cause doesn't really matter, though. It's not a...

Yeah. It makes some of the DDB shortcomings that much more painful. Don't misunderstand. I do actually think that WotC was well within their rights to send a C&D (assuming that's what happened). I also did not use OrcPub because I like MPMB's sheet much, much better. I'm hoping that MPMB...

I went through a phase, about a year ago, where I decided that I could clear my bookshelf and get rid of all the books I was unlikely to actually play again. If I could find PDF copies of things that I was only likely to ever use as a resource and/or run a short game of, I could actually free up...

I may have said it, but it was kinda like "sure, go ahead and stick your man bits in a light socket". I figured it either it wasn't really a serious question or that it would eventually work itself out. In all seriousness, though, I find the day glow fuchsia to be a heck of a lot less annoying...

In 35 years of gaming (not just as DM), I think I've seen two raise dead type events, and one was in Fantasy Hero so probably doesn't count. In that time, I've probably seen 30-40 PC deaths (in a D&D like setting). So, 2.5-3% of deaded characters get raised.

That would be the "vanilla" part, after the slash. I knew someone would either say "not Greyhawk" if that's all I put or say "he was in Greyhawk" if I just said "vanilla".

I don't have an answer for you, but I'm going to chime in with a statement that I'd actually really like to see a slower advancement table. I don't actually care about playing past 11th level or so -- for most campaigns. Retiring at "name level" was a pretty good model. The game just isn't that...

Corellon was an old Greyhawk/vanilla god that just got included into the Realms. Anyway, funny story: When I was in high school, we had a kid join our group. Someone was playing an elf (with absolutely no innuendo, IIRC) and the kid asked "Is it true that all elves are gay?" After a quip about...

Eh.... This isn't a given. I'm a church elder (lay leader who works with the pastor) and one of the recurring concerns is how to handle the folks who aren't church-goers (whether completely unchurched or just haven't attended in years) who drove by our church and like the architecture for their...

I'll admit that an Amazon gift card would be nice. Really, though, the money is me investing in my own fun. The big thing: Work with the group. Don't insist on that naive myconid druid when the session zero momentum pushed all the other players towards stealthy, urban characters in the local...

So, you're saying that even paying $.01 would be significantly better than "browsing" it?

Personal answer: None... I hope. I use PWYW in the same way that I thumb through books in the store: see what's inside and then buy if I like. This is one of the big bumps with the PDF/digital market. Without being able to thumb through it, I'm probably not going to pay $20 for a PDF. There are...

The most wonderful thing I discovered in college was engineering paper.

I missed/forgot that one. Agreed that it's not a hack, then. Well, I use an app that auto-rolls for monsters. It's so quick and easy that I even started doing individual initiative for each monster (it's a check-box). It has the ability to roll for the PCs, but no one has let me do it in the...

Some of those are hacks. The "Don't roll for initiative" qualifies. Others, not so much.

See if you can get someone else to team up with you and do one Bard and one Monk. Call them Tango and DJ Cash.

The WoD games were always pretty comfortable, to me. Nothing tops 1E AD&D, but that might be due to playing 20-30 hours a week in high school and college.