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I like to watch Skyrim Let's Plays. Its kind of like watching a TV show for me. As for the D&D plays? I don't know but I think its aspirational for younger gamers. The idea there being "Wow, someday I can have a game as cool as Matt Mercer's." Frankly the hobby has always been more "I...

Going to play a variant human bladesinger if I get a chance. This is predicated on either me deciding to get into an online group or finding that rare unicorn that wants to play at high level . Otherwise , if I can't find a group that at least wants to play above 5 or 10 I'm playing something...

Great write up from MM here. Love that fact it uses my favorite UA fighter archetype the Brute Seven pupils is obviously mystical and seven pupils would not happen in nature at least in a surviving fetus. Seven fingers and toes is plausible though as people have been proven to have been...

The D&D sizzle for 4E had a pretty cool Microsoft Surface setup with the rules way back in 2010 . It didn't seem to make it to market in any numbers for quite a lot of reasons. Honestly while tech can make complex character generation easy (spreadsheets back in the 90's for Rolemaster made an...

I hear you. Comes with being a grownup and having money for hobbies I guess. Some people buy cars, boats, fancy clothes or pool tables. Personally I haven't bothered with buying much stuff at all in years and I haven't played with people that give a fig pun intended about maps, counters or...

I'll ignore the game benefits of this and note that Medieval Europe which inspires a lot of gaming did have guild fixed prices for many goods and services and even other cultures like Feudal japan and Ancient Rome had a fixed assumed value for say a measure of rice or a loaf of bread. Now some...

I'll ignore the game benefits of this and note that Medieval Europe which inspires a lot of gaming did have guild fixed prices for many goods and services and even other cultures like Feudal japan and Ancient Rome had a fixed assumed value for say a measure of rice or a loaf of bread. Now some...

Heroes Feast the official D&D cookbook is great.

I'm not seeing that. Even highly variant settings like The Empire of the Petal Throne which is clan based Islamic , Aztec and SF in its influences and Glorantha which is is Bronze Age with Shamanism are configured for adventuring. There are narrative games out there as well as games with...

I agree with you but I've gamed with many groups where a large number of the players don't much like one thing or another, setting appropriate anthropomorphic animals, gender swapping certain D&D races (not human ones mind you) styles of gaming. if one player wants to play something...

Its fine with me. Not all groups are for all gamers. Heck I had two brothers in law (married into the same family) who would never ever game together but who otherwise got along fine.

Because in many gamers experience a lot of people especially guys who play the opposite gender do it in a manner that is disruptive to other players. Also not everyone has the same comfort zones at the table and gaming is about everyone having fun not just a few people.

I needed a laugh though the mutliclassing rules are heads and tails above every other edition.

I'd like some AC13 light armor but that might be a bit cheesy. Otherwise its easy enough to reskin existing armor as something else, Halfplate becomes Chitin or whatever. After all stats are balance, flavor is not.

I've allowed it with mixed results though I prefer not . I've even done some myself but it made the group a bit uncomfortable as I'm apparently pretty good at it or so I've been told.

Absolutely. All excellent points. Funny enough I forget that I've even read Catechism of the New Age: A Response to D&D during religious studies. It was so long ago and like a lot of religious texts seemed to bounce of the proverbial deflector shields. Also as I mentioned earlier than 80's...

I think this is thing with some sects of Southern Baptists and the Jack Chick crowd. I've had bad experiences with cult like behavior from these guys on many occasions including being very controlling about what people read and think which is detrimental to our hobby to say the least. This is...

I lived through the era but I don't know anyone who was affected on the D&D front. Mad Magazine collection chucked by overly religious parents but not D&D. This may be because of the area I lived despite being a normally very religious state , wasn't. And note most younger gamers reading this...

It has ARISEN hungry for POSTSSSS... The way I see it The Folio was pretty quality in materials, maps with the right level of realism for the type of setting it is with and enough material to help kick start your game. The thing to understand about Greyhawk is while there were really...

My understanding is that factoring in the surges in work during harvest, various feasts and festivals the medieval work week was roughly 40 hours all told. And note that religious holidays played a roll in Europe that I don't think anyone in modernity has ever come close to experiencing. It was...