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First, I love ancestral swords. Like, so much, you don't even know. My first preference would be for the Fixed Enhancement Bonus rules in the Dark Sun Campaign Setting, known in common parlance as the Inherent Bonus Rules. Assuming this for some reason is not feasible, I'd do somewhat like...

I have 2 copies of the AD&D1e PHB. I'm not entirely sure how that happened, I never purchased either of them.

Well, with how overwhelmingly powerful a caster is compared to a non-caster, every middling and higher sized government is going to have wizards on staff. If they don't, they'd get taken over by the ones that did. But even if the instigating nation found themselves facing a larger force(of...

Tails is better, Whizzy. It just is, there's no arguing it. My american quarters have an eagle on the tails side, it's way better than some dead guy's head. It's not even an accurate portrait, we all know he's a skeleton by now.

Perhaps. But wizards are, almost by default, incredibly intelligent people with an eye toward increasing their own personal power. The higher level the wizard, the more widespread these traits become. If there were a war between wizards who wanted to use their magic to live like Kings as...

You know, I open up my AD&D1e PHB, and I see these spells that take more than a couple seconds to cast, that are as such clearly meant for non-combat use. They often include a material component. Then I open up my 4e PHB, and I see these spells that take more than a couple seconds to cast...

This, in particular, pushes Noriaki's limits a little too far. Haltingly, he speaks up, "I-I'd prefer to grab my own sword.". And he also walks to the weapons.

At the thought of putting his sword down, Noriaki grows visibly discomfited. However, spurred on by the others' examples, he steels himself and removes his weapon from his sash, laying it gently on the ground. He then steps lightly to catch up to his friends.

The relevance of the casual observer is perspective. We can sit around here and talk about how much these differences in resolution mechanics or whatnot affect us, and it's true that we care. But then people start talking about which editions of D&D aren't really D&D, or aren't really...

Perhaps a system that had varying levels of fiddly bits for different classes, with monsters that have only a couple bits apiece, self-contained stats blocks that fit on less than a page. That way the casual gamer could pick up the not-fiddly class, the fiddly-fan picks up his rather fiddly...

Wait, Edition Warring is supposed to hide close-mindedness, now?

You know, I haven't checked, but I'm entirely certain that there are football fans out there, right now, who would be willing to tell you that the newest batch of rules tweaks made the game no longer football, or a sport, or that some league other than their favorite simply isn't football, or a...

Well, you see, we can't just show each other our manparts(Code of Conduct and all), so we default to the next best thing: proving that our version of our niche hobby where we pretend to be magical elves is better than the other guy's version of our niche hobby where we pretend to be magical...

Not even kind of. Let me demonstrate the problem with anecdotal evidence. I live in a small town. I am part of the only gaming group any of my group knows about, in this town. Before I came, they were looking(hoping might be more accurate) for one, but it was just a bunch of guys sitting...

The problem with having Just One D&D is that people don't all want the same edition. You like 3.5, I like 4e. If your Eternal Edition was more like 3.5, I wouldn't play it. I already have a game I enjoy more. If your Eternal Edition was more like 4e, I'd probably play it, but would you...

Satoshi barely registers Dossk's gesture. His mind floods with the memories of the Run. Visions of horses flying through the air, the smell of blood, the cries of the dying. His fists clench and unclench subconsciously. The goblin chief, unfortunate enough to still be locked in a magic bond...

Does Tuket have some kind of special condition going on? He seems to be taking a lot more actions than I expected a Stunned enemy to take.

He may be making an exaggerated characterization of non-linear campaigns, but it is no more exaggerated than the characterizations of linear campaigns elsewhere in the thread. I can do it, but only on a full moon, and only if the players sacrifice a goat to me afterwards, to replenish my power.

Given human nature, especially in fandoms, I'm fairly sure that previous edition changes were just as rage-inspiring, at the time. However, lacking the more thorough integration with the internet we have now, it was harder to group up and hate together, and that is where the real, lasting hate...

Noriaki laughs. "Taka, this thing is a farce. And you would not be able to bring it back anyhow, it would be too heavy." 1d20+1=21