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Expressing negative opinions is not inherently toxic, true, but in my experience a majority of the people on the Internet usually choose just about the most toxic ways they can to express them.

I was just re-reading this wonderful article about Gary Gygax and D&D's contributions to the English language: From the Dungeon to the Dictionary But it left me with wondering; in the article, it states " ...he [Gygax] is the popularizer of teleport and psionic, both of which feature...

I really like this Unearthed Arcana update! The Way of Mercy Monks are extremely flavorful (creepy!) and cool, and the Oath of the Watchers Paladin seems very neat as well (Chromatic Orb is an interesting choice as a Paladin Oath spell but I can totally see the reasoning behind it; allowing the...

Nice stuff. I rememeber reading about Mary and Anne "Pleading Their Bellies" in a book called Facts & Fallacies that my grandma got back in 1988. Really interesting book, full of historical and scientific curiosities; I'll have to dig it up and give it another read, I still have it around here...

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Internet and everyone having an equal voice. Back 15-20 years ago that sounded like a wonderful, egalitarian thing... what naïve children we all were. The jerks and idiots will always drown out the thoughtful and intelligent, and the more people online the...

That "dawizard" typo is all throughout those books. Someone must have done a lazy find/replace of "Mage" with "Wizard."

Considering the similarities between the Hand and Eye of Vecna and the Hand of Kwll and Eye of Rhynn, I am quite certain that were fully intended as an homage to the Corum stories. It would just be far too much of a coincidence to be otherwise, and Gygax was quite free with his borrowings...

I already knew all of this, but cool article regardless. :) I read the Corum books in the collected White Wolf edition that was published years ago (I read them all as one book) and they were really good; the Vadhagh are a really interesting take on Sidhe Elves. The Hand of Kwll and the Eye...

16th level Sorcerer (using the Unearthed Arcana Favored Soul.) Total awesomeness.

I've played 1E, 2E, 3E, and v3.5, and would happily play it again if the DM wanted to run a campaign with those rules. I loved 3.5 and had no probelm whatsoever with it, no nostalgia required, playing the first character I made for the edition up to 26th level (started on the night the PHB was...

Very very cool. Thank you.

Talk about getting 86'd! B-dum-bum-bish.

I would say he was a Cleric of the Egyptian Pantheon.

Thank you for the info! Good to know that the Gift Set printings don't seem to have the problems the previous printings did, like the easily smudged ink, and especially the pages falling out (I do give credit to WotC for their costumer service being excellent and the whole process being...

You might have been lucky with the smudging issue before now; every one of my D&D books that I got back in 2014 have smudges throughout them from the first time I read them. Every time I I touched the page the ink would smudge. I was able to get a new PHB just last year because of other...

I really like Eberron: Rising From the Last War, and I am surprised at how much I do. It actually makes me want to play an Eberron campaign right away. Ventrix d'Cannith, a Battlesmith Artificer Dragonmarked heir of House Cannith with a souped-up magitech prosthetic arm, accompanied by a...

Oh I wasn't talking about NPC names! :) Crafting humorous NPC names is an artform; I have NPCs like "Baron Schtankoff" or "the nameless Prince in the raspberry beret" all the time for the reason you said, to keep them memorable. I was talking about stupid, silly PC names. That just drives me...

This is why I just haven't been able to watch any streamed D&D games: the "performing" is just annoying to me, and every stream I've ever tried to watch has seemed to be nothing but literally hours of drawn out character interactions with meaningless NPCs like cooks and janitors, pointless...

That's rad! Nice to have some old Fiend Folio monsters back (I mean beyond the standard Githyanki and Slaad, of course!)

The lord's manor article sound svery cool and interesting. I am always looking for more info about that stuff.