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I suppose, but if you can't believe the guy writing the DMG when they say D&D isn't a reality sim, then who would you believe? Also, when has anyone gone on record saying D&D is a reality simulator?* *Maybe somebody has, if so, I'd love to be enlightened!

Yeah, I mean, it's not like they took Gnomes out of the PHB or anything...

D&D's worlds are based on exceptions. Where one draws the line is subjective as what one can accept. Some people can accept child-sized adventurers, others cannot. Some people can accept Dwarves being able to swim, others cannot. Some people can accept giant-sized ants, bees, and other...

Outside of "name level" or drawing the Knight card (if you know, you know), my AD&D group didn't really have NPC followers. Nothing prevents players from hiring a small army of NPC's (as Rob Kuntz infamously did), but obviously, doing so can dramatically alter the course of play. By the same...

Play 3e. Note that while Halfings do have -2 Strength and are half the size, their carrying capacity is not halved compared to a human, but their lifting and carrying limits are three-quarters of those of a Medium character. Thus, a Strength 10 human has a heavy load of up to 100 pounds, and a...

Science says chimpanzees are stronger than humans.

Ok, so, if you go back to the post I was responding to, it all started with a comment about a game where the GM's "semi-realistic SF campaign" had the players landing on a sun, and the poster believed too many people got their ideas about science from Star Trek or Star Wars. Micah Sweet replied...

I wonder if Tyler fights using clubs.

Feel the need for an obligatory quote. "There's coffee in that nebula."

Oh no, I'm talking about the planet Naboo in Star Wars.

Does your Bard also convert raw numbers into bonus elemental damage? I've seen that trick done too. Honestly, I miss the days when I could cast good buffs on players. Now almost everything is locked behind concentration and a lot of what you can cast is terrible (looking at you, Enlarge). I...

1e - Lots of character classes. In addition to Unearthed Arcana, Dragonlance Adventures, and OA, there were more classes than you could count in things like Dragon Magazine. I enjoyed the possibilities. 2e - Priests of a specific deity feeling very different than their peers. Wacky, gonzo...

Hey that didn't happen, and if you remember it happening, you're from an alternate timeline!

Ok, I mean, I don't know your situation. But if you have people willing to play older games, then it shouldn't be hard. If the problem is not finding people willing to play, that's going to happen no matter what game we're talking about.

The problem with builds like this is that how they warp the game around them might not be particularly noticeable to other players. I had a DMM Persist Cleric in a 3.5 game (if you know, you know) who solely cast buff spells on the party with absurdly long durations. I was up front with my...

How about a planet with a core of liquid water?

I remember reading a science fiction story about a mining colony on the surface of a star that had grown so cold that it had a solid surface. You'd still burn yourself if you sat still though. Not sure how realistic that would be, though.

So I had a conversation about this once. We were discussing common, expensive material components for spells, ones that have set prices. 100 gp pearls, diamonds and diamond dust, that sort of thing. If there components are consumed by casting (as happens in many versions of D&D), what happens...

Yeah, learning to be a regular Wizard and suddenly diving into something as esoteric and groundbreaking as Wild Magic at 3rd level seems a bit odd. At least the one good thing I can say about "School of Magic" subclasses is that they represent a choice of specialization. I wish there was a...

I have a ton of 3.5 books if anyone wants them! Heck, I have almost everything in .pdf format! And those books mostly collect dust unless I want to adapt something from them or use them as inspiration. The same goes for 2e, 1e, and even older D&D books- it's not hard to actually play a...