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I bought a copy of the Rules Cyclopedia for not a lot of money just a few years ago. There are tons of old versions of D&D available and they can last the rest of your life if well taken care of.

I think it's ok to love D&D, especially the 50 year legacy of D&D, and still not have to bind your love of D&D to Hasbro. They happen to own the brand now. They didn't for the majority of the live of D&D and they may not in the future. But we can love D&D – I love D&D – and not feel bad about...

Fantastic question! I wrote an article about this called Interviewing New Players for Online Games. It offers a four-phase way of narrowing down players who fit your style, like your types of games, and give you a chance to play with them before a big commitment. It's a lot of work – making any...

Thank you so much!

Just catching up on this thread. When developing Forge of Foes, we thought a lot about what GMs actually need to run a monster – not from the standpoint of a published monster but an improvised monster. How important are specific saving throws or skills? How much can you make up on the fly...

I made my case here that the term "5e" became something new during the course of the past ten years and certainly in the last two. Yes, 5e once meant the "5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons", but now it can mean something else. I argue the term "5e" now acts as a stand-alone term defining...

They are not in 5e. They’re in D&D. WOTC doesn’t own any part of the A5e SRD which is 100% 5e.

I’d add that topple can only be attempted once per turn.

EN World owns the A5E SRD and its 5e. ToV is 5e. 5e is a platform on which many games are built including D&D 2014, D&D 2024, A5E, and Tales of the Valiant.

What about companies that build off of the 5.2 SRD in 2025? What will you call those?

A5e has its own 5e system reference document completely independent from the WOTC 5.1 SRD. A5e and TOV are just as “official” as D&D 2024.

For me, a refresh would have been fixing up what needed to be fixed and leaving the rest alone. Many of the new subsystems could have been optional rules, not core. Instead, we’re seeing a whole bunch of significant changes.

I wish they had given them a refresh...

And back them up! One local disconnected backup and one off-site!

Good point.

I'm pretty sure this has happened elsewhere and the answer is your copy will go poof. I'd bet $10 it's in the EULA we sign with D&D Beyond that they can pull content any time with no recourse. Buy the PDF.

Sounds like a problem for us when we lose access to this thing we paid for.