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The bar is not so difficult to pull free from the door of the blackened building, and as far as you can see there is no other lock on the door. Two of the horrific faces sculpted on the door hold large metal rings in their mouths to serve as handles.

As a historical note, the legend of the tarrasque has been used to argue that Nile crocodiles once ranged as far as the northern shores of the Mediterranean.

And yet, you keep replying.

Hackmaster 5e has an interesting attempt to keep the tactical, miniatures style combat while getting rid of turns. Combat proceeds in seconds, and all characters act simultaneously each second. So rather than Dave moving 6 squares on his 6 second turn and the gibbon moving 6 squares on his...

In full agreement with that. However, this leaves me with a bit of an issue with the idea of Free Kriegspiel. If something's only going to come up once, I'll just make up a ruling and move on. I can not imagine ever stopping a game to look things up on Google to establish the plausibility of...

No reason other than that it's fun! One reason that I think I've been enjoying running WFRP more than DnD is that it has a lot of 'haha, you're dead' stuff baked into the player-facing rules. If I want someone's face to eplode in DnD, I have to be extremely careful to telegraph it very clearly...

Read the rules. It sounds like you're talking an established group of players and that the theme and style of the campaign will need to be agreed with then first. So there is no point designing anything that might not fit. Especially not if you get all excited about your ideas and then find...

Over prepared a whole bunch of different content because I could see too many different ways that things could go. Players came up with an ingenious solution to their problems which bypassed almost everything I had planned. Now I have nothing ready for next time again. Oi vey.

That's not the only benefit of a human. A computer is limited in being able to process a set of predefined inputs. The special thing about a table-top rpg, with a human GM, is the idea that you can do anything (or, at least, you can try anything). You don't need to choose your dialogue from a...

Markus and Edelgard It's a straightforward matter to find loose stones in this crumbling old keep. Nothing seems to emerge from the well, but the moaning continues. Vasha and Ranken The door makes a dull clanging sound, but after waiting for a minute there is no response to your knock.

Most of the playtest packets can be easily obtained from your friendly neighborhood torrent search engine in a torrent called Next.Dnd. This is probably illegal in most jurisdictions, but it's not like anything you'd be stealing is available for purchase. And it's probably worth taking into...

The Well For a moment, Alice finds herself in a dream-like state, the world dissolving around her into a vague blackness. Strange shapes flicker at the edge of her vision. Some sort of beings moving too quickly for her to see them clearly, and yet at the same time seeming to beckon her towards...

I'd be up for scraping the whole thing and just giving some races low-light vision. Subterranean types can also have low light vision and, more importantly, use light sources. The Underdark does not have to be in darkness. It can be full of magical light and phosphorescent fungi. Subterranean...

According to his website he worked for TSR for a decade and spent one year with WotC after they bought the company. He now works as a freelancer and has, among other things, done a bunch of concept art for computer games, including the DnD MMO. I think he's real!

@TheAlkaizer and @jmucchiello - your characters are milling around by the gatehouse looking kind of gormless. Let me know what you want to do.

Not at all condescending, it appears I'm wrong. I had read that Zocchi invented the 'funny dice' that they use in DCC. But I just looked it up and the Zocchi set is not the full DCC chain, as it does not include a d7 or a d30 (it's a d3, d5, d14, d16 and d24).

Good. They died.

Paramount built in an exception for Morrus, obviously. You're probably allowed to jump the queue at exclusive nightclubs too.

Video seems to be restricted to only display with a US IP address. (Disclaimer: I obviously did not try 200 different IP addresses, but it wouldn't display with the UK one I tried)

Not going to participate in this one as I don't recognise most of the names, and the people I would think of as my favourite 'DnD artists' were never actually DnD artists. I mean, they never illustrated any DnD products, they're just fantasy artists from the 70s. Just gonna leave this here for you.