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Re: Women in gaming. From 1978 to 1986 I didn't know any female gamers, albeit it was a fairly small sample, basically my friends in high school. I had not attended any conventions or gamed with any outside groups. When I got to college in 1986, there were two regular female gamers that I...

Don't forget he is the creator of Fight in the Skies (aka Dawn Patrol), which has been run every year since Gen Con 1! Super nice guy as well!

My first Dragon was #49 with a great cover by Tim Hildebrandt, so the covers did improve! I have fond memories of waiting for the mail so I could get the latest issue in the fancy envelope (and later in the plain brown sleeve). Alas, I sold my entire collection on eBay in the early 00's as I...

My first Dragon was #49 with a great cover by Tim Hildebrandt, so the covers did improve! I have fond memories of waiting for the mail so I could get the latest issue in the fancy envelope (and later in the plain brown sleeve). Alas, I sold my entire collection on eBay in the early 00's as I...

This does seem to be a near manic infatuation with DPS, which is much more common in MMO's than TTRPG's. Truthfully, as a DM, if you aren't able to balance a munchkinfied min/max build, then maybe someone else should DM? As DM's we have a wide variety of tools available to us (unlike MMO's...

The biggest issue is the -5/+10 mechanic. As others have said, swapping that out for a ASI of +1 solves many of the problems. I disagree that there needs to be a change to bring wizards on par with sorcerers. I play both classes in Adventurer's League play, and I am more than willing to give...

When designing adventures, I think of the encounters as scenes. The spaces between the encounters are less structured and usually generated on the fly. When reviewing the adventure, I think to myself "If this was a movie, would I find it interesting?". If the answer is yes, it will likely be...

I started playing around 1978/1979, AD&D was just coming out. We rolled 3d6 and allowed the player rearrange the stats (so you could place them in the attribute you wanted). One thing we did do, totally munchkin, was just rolled TONS of sets of stats and stopped rolling when we got a set we...

Did the GM know that player A had the breath fire down the gullet plan? If not, then it is just the kind of stuff that happens during normal play and Player A needs to just accept that things don't always turn out like you plan them in combat. If the GM knew of Player A's plan, then they...

Any Goliath. I have had zero luck in finding a 'large' Medium sized bald figure!

In prior editions, this was the case. 5e Wizard is far better at Control than DPS, even with the inclusion of the concentration mechanic. The only place they really compete for DPS is AoE, but the lower level spells tend to do 'meh' damage and spell slots over 5 are almost never replenished...

We just finished recording a podcast on this very thing! It won't be made available for about a month since it still has to go through post production and we have recorded some in advance since Gen Con is coming up. If anyone is interested, it is "The Grognards" under the LAG Radio Network...

Like many, I remember being 'meh' about Fiend Folio when it first came out. Most of the monsters were to wacky for me at the time (as a 13 year old DM). I do recall including the Githyanki in an adventure path and it threw my players for a loop since they had pretty much memorized the MM by...

I have an Adventurer's League Goblin Beast Master/Cavalier who rides a War Cow and wields twin lances. He also gets advantage on any attacks on creatures Medium or smaller while mounted. It is slightly broken, but competent DM's will balance it by limiting where you can fit a Large mount. I...

Ironically, two friends and I just did a podcast episode focusing on PC's and NPC's and we discussed our differing methods of character creation! (It can be found on soundcloud and iTunes under "The Grognards", it is episode #3) We discuss the backstory first vs. mechanics first techniques...

Maybe some mischievous fey? They can make it seem eerie and dreadful, but still keep it in the realm of CR 1.

4 out of the 5 players in my 5e group are either former or current Scoutmasters of our local Boy Scout troop and we have a yearly Game Weekend campout. We rent the lodge at a local camp and scouts can bring games to play and share. It is our most well attended campout of the year. It was so...

Mine had minor scuffing on the spine. I told my FLGS owner "Doesn't look like anything to me" took the book and ran!

With so many gaming conventions out there, a year seems a very long time to wait. Given that AL season tend to run about a year, it generally means any season specific content (not the case with this product AFAIK) would be for the prior season by the time it was released.

How do the tiefling subraces differ from each other mechanically? Any racial abilities stand out?