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Among D&D, definitely Dragonlance, given the ongoing generational campaign that’s been going on for more than 25 years of real time and a century of Krynn time (on and off in both cases) across systems from 2nd Edition to 5th Edition. The main DM started it in middle school (using photocopies of...

The classic distribution of magic weapons (codified in 1st Edition to steeply favor swords, especially among intelligent weapons) is one of the key sources of the choice of Kong’s words by characters and, to a degree, the choice to play characters able to wield them. Especially given the rarity...

That’s a key point. The Role and Power Source features of 4e divided abilities up discretely among classes instead of intermixing them (look how Rangers lost their magic, for example). Because Warlord is the main class original to 4e, the class is easy to think of in that single form (compare it...

If the adventures I played growing up in the AD&D days taught me anything, just make sure that there are plenty of bars to bend and gates to lifts wherever characters go!

I haven’t been heavily involved in 5e Warlord threads, but I’ve noticed a trend that I’m curious about. It strikes me that there’s usually a desire to replicate near-exactly previous action-granting or healing abilities in a system where action economy and healing/natural healing have changed...

Fifth Edition is built on the same basic d20 chassis as Third Edition, and indeed returns more to that system’s form (consider multiclassing, saving throws, etc) that Fourth Edition’s mechanical divergences. Yet the game runs very differently than its predecessors did, drawing a mix of...

I wonder if this is going to be the start of a 3e/PF OSR? Just as the recent years of the OSR have been less about replacing unavailable past editions as (given how old editions are now being reprinted in PDF and POD) as about reorganizing them for clearer play. One can easily imagine projects...

I’m curious about approaching this debate from a different perspective. It seems almost certainly the case that (aside from the martial adept feat), combat superiority dice have been decided to be the sine qua non of the battlemaster. As such, I’m curious what is the non-mechanical appeal of...

In my campaign, that’s Elf, Free with Purchase!

Despite Dragonlance being my main D&D love, I fully understand and sort of support them not releasing the usual sort of sourcebook for Krynn (or for Oerth). As others have noted, it’s better from an IP standpoint to not fragment the line like they did in 2nd edition by world (just as it’s better...

That’s what the Cracker Jack subclass is there for!

I’m the rare sort apparently who liked the Illumian from 3.5 and is curious how their sigil and glyph abilities would translate to 5e.

Enchanters got a good bulk deal on longswords at Costco.

I feel as if we somehow all missed a goldmine of D&D 5e vs DSM 5e jokes back in 2014...

Why is there the assumption that there’s going to be a specifically planar product? Given the lack of other settings books (SCAG being the closest so far, and that being only partly a gazetteer). Rather, I wonder if we’ll see information on planar adventuring in a book aimed at high-level...

I still half-expect the domain and mass combat rules to end up in a book with planar travel and the like as a sort of High Level Campaigns supplement.

Elfchak the Gloom Stalker?

I’ve taken to thinking that the overstuffed nature of the class, if not necessarily deliberate, is a sort of natural selection se se of design. The designers have a broad sense of where they can go with the Mystic but want to see where players want to go, so are giving out lots of options within...

My first thought: I was reading the very neat black D&D culture of Ergoth in Dragonlance thirty years ago (likely before most of the Kotaku staff were born) and playing an Ergothian in a campaign — I’m a white guy, mind you — twenty years ago. I seriously doubt that anyone at any of the...

Cue a whole series of subclasses built around replicating 1980s action heroes?