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Vade retro Satana.

You can't really pin the "implied setting" of D&D down, and as evidence I present the fact that D&D itself has been struggling with this for almost 50 years, pausing only during the D&D4 era when they took a different approach. To clarify, I think of core D&D4 as "your D&D setting can be...

Ah, good, thank you for the clarity. I like Colville's work, but don't watch videos or streams.

I thought this thread might find this interesting. This poll has only been up in General Discussion on D&D Beyond for four hours; take from the interim results what you will...

No, goddammit, no funky dice. Don't make players buy special dice to play your freaking game, you know it isn't going to be worth it for us.

I only happened across the Lavender Hack about a month ago, and I'm glad I did. A lot of good ideas. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/308733/Lavender-Hack-Tarantula-Hawk-Wasp-Edition

Psh, honey ham. What are you, some kind of simulglazionist? I remember saying exactly this to my AP Calculus teacher. ...Okay, not really, I mostly just swore a lot. I think it's less important to rename 'elf' to 'elf mageblade' than it is to also enforce race-as-class for humans. The...

Advancement beyond 10th level is fine, but the game has to change. It needs to reflect that the players are now the threat, and the adventurers monsters come to them. Gotta build that dungeon stronghold. Also, my version of this thing would have only four classes and a ton of archetypes for...

So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion. And so pass also the days of Gondor that you have known; for good or evil they are ended. Ill deeds have been done here; but let now all enmity that lies between you be put away, for it was contrived by the Enemy and works his will. Anyway, I've got this...

Absolutely -- more rules have never resulted in more agreement. The "holes" people are complaining about in D&D5 might get smaller, but they'll also get deeper, and while the argument could be made that they will be fewer, I won't believe it until someone shows me data. More content means more...

I gave you a like, but couldn't not QFT as well. If Wizards was smart, they'd leave the rules out of it and just focus on making the VTT as pretty and accessible as possible. A VTT with beautiful 3D graphics that truly reduced prep time would be a godsend for everyone. Let people use it for...

I have the luxury and privilege to not have an opinion about the industry impact of OGL 1.1 until Wizards has played their hand, but as a professional technical writer, I couldn't help myself but to say there's something really funny about the combination of capitalization to indicate legal...

Yes, that's why I said it's not feasible using current D&D5 mechanics. But a bell curve and bounded accuracy are not mutually exclusive. You can reintroduce one easily and without changing any other rules by rolling 3d20km1, among other options. Really, how one achieves the result is less...

It's not, though. In D&D5, ability scores only modify the d20 roll with a flat linear bonus from -5 to +5. Standard array gives you [-1, 0, +1, +1, +2, +2]. Rolling 4d6kh3 might move these around somewhat, but it's the relative difference between the individual bonus values that is relevant...

Wahey, nice to see other folks thinking about this. I started experimenting with 2d10 two years back, and while I was really pleased with how few changes to the rules were necessary to support it, I was never fully satisfied, so I went to 3d20, read the middle result. That's really cool...

I'm not sure if this is a cop out, but I think that if there are 100 replies to this thread, you will get 100 different and possibly incompatible ideas. In my opinion, that is what makes D&D and its 3PP diaspora great. It's not the best designed game, and never has been, but that has never...

Alakazam aladidgeridoo-- Come on hat, make this sad news not true.

Just wanted to say this is a good, informative, concise response, and I even like it. The problem with psionics in any setting that already has magic is the overlap. Magic should be able to do everything psionics can do, because the mind, will, and body are by definition part of the...