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Absolutely. That's what 'worldbuilding' is. If your world has spelljamming ships, or giant flying monsters that can attack cities or fortified castles, then honestly you should already know what effect that has on the design of fortifications, potential counter-measures, etc., in your world...

Hasbro has only owned D&D since September of 1999, when they purchased Wizards of the Coast, so they've only owned D&D for 22 years. You could argue whether Wizards of the Coast, as a subsidiary of Hasbro, 'exists' in the sense of ultimately owning the rights to the game, but it won't be until...

Right here is where this article breaks my sense of immersion. Why would a spelljamming ship be able to carry a virtually unlimited supply of rocks? No real-world analogue of a flying machine can carry unlimited amounts of anything, much less ammunition -- the trade-offs required to engineer a...

In my experience, this works even better if the Sorlock player is very bad about keeping track of his resources. "Oh, yeah, I still have all my Sorcery Points from last session -- I didn't use any of them nuking the head fire giant and basically obliterating him from the map last time we...

Not really -- a number of the spell school abilities are also really good, such as the divination wizard's Portent ability, gained at level 2. If your Portent dice roll high, you can use them on spell attack rolls or concentration checks, and if they roll low (which I think is better), you can...

The thread that would not die, indeed. May as well put in my $0.02US... The list of best books I own for any edition of D&D is a pretty short list. Nominees would include the AD&D era Deities and Demigods (though the 'divinity construction kit' of the 3E version was pretty useful when building...

That might be more true of stores today, but when I was working in bookstores, the SF/Fantasy section was very often scattered with very old printings of books considered 'classics' -- I distinctly remember shelving a 20-year old printing of Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", as an...

Check the date of print, if it's included on the book page. If the book wasn't printed in the past 10 years, then it's entirely reasonable to say that the books are 'out of print', as the last printing is still being sold in the market and thus there's no reason to issue a new print run. 'Out...

While I do agree that the change in heroic motivation LP mentions in his essay has happened, I'm going to disagree on the reason he provides. For starters, I feel as though his 'bulging biceps' categorization of pulp heroes is a bit simplistic and cherry-picked. Certainly Conan existed, but not...

There are a number of creatures I'd likely never have used in my own adventures that I've gotten the chance to use in pre-published modules I've run -- the old Age of Worms adventure path was my first time running a grick, and probably the first time I ever actually used a shrieker the way it...

Interesting, and very similar to my own conversion done for a group I'm running through the campaign and converting to 5E as we go. I kept more of the original mechanics of the octopin, such as seeing through two feet of wood rather than the three that is part of the typical 5E boilerplate text...

Agreed. A well-known infectious disease that can easily be identified when it first appears in a community would be fairly easy to spot and contain, but a 'mysterious ailment' that only kills after a fairly long incubation period would allow more than enough spread so that clerics and paladins...

And, to bring us back around to the original point, this text in the DMG directly contradicts the passage in Sage Advice. If you're running a game in Adventurers League, you'll be expected to use this rule, not the advice offered by the Sage. -- Pauper

Actually it is, but indirectly. A shield, like any piece of armor, must be donned to benefit from it, and must be doffed to remove the benefit. (See the Donning and Doffing Armor table in the Player's Basic Rules.) Dropping an object you are holding is not specifically defined in the rules...

All the D&D games I played at GenCon Online were run in Roll20, which seemed to work OK for people who were familiar with it, and didn't take a ridiculous amount of time to explain for people who weren't. I wouldn't refuse to play in another Roll20 game, based on my experience. When it comes to...

I agree with pretty much all Remathilis's points, particularly when it comes to the old AD&D Ravenloft setting. At the same time, I'm not explicitly disagreeing with this statement: But I'd point out that the things we consider 'horror' with competent protagonists explicitly make it so the...

I'm going to agree with the OP on this one, because, regardless of the particular style of horror you're trying to run (gothic horror, survival horror, etc.), all horror basically boils down to the same basic premise -- you are not important. One great example I saw earlier in the thread points...

Actually, even if you are playing AL, you can ignore this -- the AL explicitly notes in its FAQ document: -- Pauper

"Mr. Crawford? There's a 'Halaster Blackcloak' on line two for you." -- Pauper

'Shifting to a greater emphasis on settings' sounds to me like they're either ignoring or feel they have a better solution to the classic TSR problem of too many settings -- the overhead stays the same for a setting-specific book versus a 'generic' book, but if the setting-specific book only...