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You don't see long involved essays about what it might actually be like to be an Elf, because that's all subjective and dependant upon the setting being played within. What it's like to be an Elf on Faerun is different than what it is like to be an Elf on Eberron which is different than an Elf...

I have no problem with it. Honestly, most of my characters have been female over the years (I'm a guy). Some people seem to have a problem remembering the gender of the character and referring to them as the gender of the player. It gets annoying at times. I've met people who banned such...

A good player is one that will make their character fit a theme of what the DM is trying to run. A DM running War of the Lance that says "you can play whatever, but certain classes will have certain problems in the setting", and the players come out with a warlock, sorcerer, cleric, paladin, and...

Some of these replies in here make me glad my players aren't obtuse and going through every word to squeeze out a meaning that wasn't used. To me, "Knights of the Round Table" is exactly that, the DM wants their players to be Knights of the Round Table. I don't see that as a genre, but a...

Not the biggest fan of the art in much of the 1e books (not sure if this came from one of the Basic books as I have never looked at them). But they worked fairly well. Not visually amazing. 2e had some really great art imo, 3rd's was hit and miss. Thought a lot of the 4e art was ugly (the person...

Different commissioned artists have different art styles. I enjoy the first image of Tasha, while the (I assume) elven ranger I find not very pleasing to my eyes despite it being rather well done. However, I also cannot stand the vast majority of the monster art in the Monster Manual done by the...

Warforged were the only ones I imported into my homebrew setting. They were super easy, just making them be created by the combined efforts of a gnome subrace and a dwarf subrace of my setting. Shifters as-is wouldn't work in my setting, as the default werecreatures don't exist. I have other...

Bad thing with that horrible trainwreck of a movie was it seemed to have no budget. It looked like those bad animated ripoffs of Disney movies that are "direct to vhs/dvd" you see for $3 at the local dollar store. The CGI and trad animation wasn't combined well at all, even for something that...

I have thought about going back to original 3e. I've thought about going back to 2e as well. I love 5e and thankfully haven't had much in the way of terrible experiences. If I had the free time and the motivation, I have been tossing around the idea of cobbling together a mix of 2e, 3e, PF and...

Replay Wrath of the Righteous with the same horrific group I had back in 2013/2014 (holy crap the final session was 6 years ago to the day). And not just play it again with the same bootyholes, but actually relive every session that whole year again exactly how they played out. That crap was so...

I had a link bookmarked to a site that had every single 2e AD&D monster in it (included stat blocks). I tried going there again back in July but it had been taken down. I think if it is just a list, with a source listed of where it's been located, it might not be too bad. But if the statblocks...

My first exposure to Baba Yaga was an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3k. It's always been an interesting folklore

We are doing that dead horse again because WotC has basically said they are going to be bringing about 3 "classic settings". There's another thread on it. There's been about 5 "new" settings (I say "new" since at least 2 are MtG settings) already. The last "classic" setting was the very little...

My setting, I removed humans. Well, they used to exist in history, but the "modern" time of the setting has them as being eradicated. I only included elves because my sister loves them and exclusively plays elves. She doesn't play anymore, and I'd have to come up with something completely...

I think about the only tool check I have ever seen done is thieves' tools. Giving more tool proficiencies in place of weapons would cause no problems. As it is, you get so few tool proficiencies, and learning a new one took a stupid amount of time (what was it, a year ingame?). Players might...

The one house rule I always have implemented, and my players seem to enjoy, is the following: Everyone rolls 4d6 (drop lowest) 6 times (includes the DM). Each set of 6 scores is written down, and the players can choose which set of six they want. It doesn't have to be the set they rolled, and...

I guess I am lucky in that I don't really have the power gamer/minmaxer/whateveryouwannacallit player in my games. For the last 2 years, I've switched the ASIs to be closer to how they were in the playtest: +2 from class (usually in the scores tied to the class's save proficiency) and +1...

I can see minmaxers abusing this. Overall, I like what I saw. This can open up a lot of various race class combos that you don't typically see, which is always a bonus. As I have said in many threads before, it gets tiresome seeing halflings only being rogues, countless tiefling warlocks...

The only reason Pathfinder did so well as they did, was because WotC was waffling about making an OGL for 4e in time for Paizo to switch over to that. So they had one of their people put together his house rules of 3rd edition and made the Pathfinder game. WotC's marketing and other flubs with...

I haven't played in-person D&D since 2006. However, I do miss physical dice, physical character sheets, and everyone actually paying attention. There's no way to know if everyone in the voice chat is not "surfing the web", watching videos, playing a video game, or doing something else other than...