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Where more detailed description of mundane treasure is found, I will present it. It is not needless filler - it serves a purpose. It reinforces the perception that it ISN'T all just cash value that should be loaded onto an Amazon gift card. However, bulk treasure is still BULK treasure. I...

They are nature priests who hold the sun and moon as deities; they revere and protect all animals and plants that are "natural" to a given campaign world, but hold trees in particular reverence. They universally embrace the cold and seemingly cruel neutrality exhibited by the natural world, but...

SHOW 'em a better way to be - don't just shout how wrong they are and DEMAND that they comply. It's going to viscerally affect the way people react to what you have to say. Beating people up in an effort to win their hearts and minds will not produce desired results.

I started with Holmes. Had absolutely no issues moving to 1E.

Another one bites the dust...

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 18+1 = 19 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 27 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 32 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 34 Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 21-2 = 19

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 45 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 9 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 45 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 43 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 46 Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 38

IMO all the D&D cosmology really needs is to give up the Great Wheel.

Well, when it first came out we were using everything in it. Over time we dropped most of it other than the barbarian class (which was nonetheless only played a couple times), the new spells, and weapon specialization but for bows that was dialed back. Fastest to drop was the cavalier class...

Original Dungeons and Dragons 42 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 55+1=56 Basic Dungeons and Dragons 51 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 52 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 56 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 51 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 52 Classic Dungeons & Dragons 49 Dungeons &...

Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. It'd be entertaining, you can't deny that.

While actively playing, especially in combat? I don't HAVE to explain anything mechanically. If players have an obsessive desire to know to an absolute certainty where an extra 3 points comes from... it's good to want things. When combat is over, and especially when a game session is done, I...

After the first adventure any differences in cost are close to irrelevant. Only the initial outfitting of the character really makes money a factor in equipment decisions. There are a few exceptions for some things. Acquiring plate mail would be one that my 1E AD&D games make a factor for a...

Pretty sure my first RPG purchase was dice. They weren't sold in sets at the time so they were mix-and-match. I do still have that first d20, but the rest of them have become irrevocably mixed with the hundreds of other dice I've acquired over the years. After the dice my next purchases would...

I am Groot.

Even if I never play it, I think I NEED this...

I took a good long look at replicating E6 in 1E. Doing it for 2E would be about the same. Problem is that 3E is structured differently and helps tremendously to make E6 actually work. PC's stop advancing at 6th level but get regular improvements in the form of feats, while their skills...

I differentiate between humanoid species by the differing levels of ability (better or worse) than humans have, or by having abilities that humans don't have at all, and occasionally by not having certain abilities at all that humans do have.

Railroading is only an issue if the players SEE the rails and try to jump off the speeding train.

It's a poll. I'm happy to discuss what my choices are on any poll, and why - but I can't properly make choices on that poll if I have to first retroactively explain/define the poll options. Take the set of options of industrial, modern, future/space, stone age, and classical. Are these meant...