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I'm not trying to defend Howard or Lovecraft's world views, but what they offer is short fiction that isn't a 900 page Brandon Sanderson epic. It's episodic and a good basis in pacing for a gaming adventure. I've been unable to find contemporary and less problematic writers who can do the same...

It's strange coming into it as a guy in his 40s in 2025. And I understand it was written for a different audience in a different time, but it feels uncomfortable. I guess in a different way than reading HP Lovecraft or Robert E Howard, because this is recent by comparison. I've only read the...

Everyone in my group is voraciously reading Dungeoncrawler Carl. Some are fans of Brandon Sanderson. For me, last month I started RA Salvatore's Icewind Dale trilogy (for the first time).

The "When We Were Wizards" podcast has some nice interviews with Ernie and discusses his involvement in the history of the game and its business. It's worth a listen.

MOST traps are garbage. If you're talking about a tripwire across the floor that fires a hidden bolt that might hit a character and do 4 points of damage, you know, the easiest thing to do is just ignore that. I've run published adventures for years and didn't have the time or inclination to...

Hmm. So if they keep setting off traps remotely, then they find themselves blocked out of the areas they need to access, destroying treasure, alerting nearby enemies, and setting off traps that roll down the hallway to get them. Just blindly setting off traps is a foolish way to proceed in an...

I thought it was a rogue archetype that could disarm traps with mage hand. (Or maybe I'm thinking of a prior edition?) So ... no, unless you're trained in this archetype, mage hand doesn't work this way.

Just came in this thread to see if I needed to explain the confusing cycle of releases between the individual books, the basic tome, the advanced tomes, etc.

I'm a librarian. One of the departments I oversee is Inter-library Loan (where we mail books to and receive books from other libraries). The cost of Media Mail has already ballooned to the point where we can barely offer this service.

I've been trying to dodge buying the 2024 edition. I don't want to have to get a new PHB (et al) to use the new Eberron book. I think I'd prefer not having the players interact with Dragonmarks than run an amalgam of 5.14, A5E, and 5.24.

My gaming group refers to the hobby as D&D. Even if we're playing a different system. Even if we're playing a different genre. Even if what we're playing doesn't resemble D&D at all (such as playing Dread with a Jenga tower). At this point, once summer weather gets here, I'm going to invite...

I have not. But I assume it's like how Savage Rifts is a simplified version of Palladium's or Savage Pathfinder is simplified of Paizo's.

I started playing in AD&D 2nd edition, when demons and devils weren't what they used to be - and before they were brought back in 3rd edition. I didn't know what a marilith was. My first encounter with one was a horrifying moment in . There was a handcrank-operated lift that descended a...

One of the challenges in using that system with this group is that they are baked in "trad gaming" paradigms. I'll give an example with one of my recent dramatic tasks - breaking into the space station labs to recover the McGuffin. Player C: I'd like to use Athletics to climb past an obstacle...

In our last session, just to try to speed to a satisfying and energetic resolution, I went with the following encounters: 1. Dramatic task - sneak into the lab of the space station and recover the McGuffin. [Was fast and a lot of fun.] 2. Combat encounter - an optional combat to have one last...

No. I have Shadow of the Demon Lord, but the grimdark feel turned me off. Weird Wizard would be a possibility, but at the same time, I know this group has "system fatigue" and just want to play something familiar. I've had a few other experiences with SWADE. Overall, it's been a mixed bag. I...

True. They did grasp D&D 4E much easier - though I think its system is more uniform in its presentation while SWADE has many disparate subsystems. Part of the difficulty could also be that SWADE is so unique in its resolution mechanics. We can compare it to other popular systems' resolution...

Maybe had I slowed everyone down at the beginning and really "taught" it properly. Maybe had we not had gaps between sessions due to the external factors I mentioned. Maybe if we were playing in a setting like Pathfinder that I felt more comfortable to grok and that we better understood the...

It wasn't the easiest to find, but the errata is listed under "Guns and Gears" Remaster Errata on their FAQ. https://paizo.com/pathfinder/faq

That will make my wife happy. She is using Pathbuilder on a Fire tablet.