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I know not everyone does, but I splash a lot of science fiction in my dnd.

Maybe. Probably. Definitely.

To be honest, I see no reason why it should be. And the whole "dispersed across the multiverse" thing falls apart if you realize that languages change pretty quickly over time and the same language tends to evolve in different directions in different locations, so that it splinters into...

I feel slightly responsible. Apologies for the system shock.

You never go ATM... machine.

For an edition that seems to be intent on removing much of the lore and flavor from things, and stripping any culture from monsters, this seems like an awkward, backwards, counter-to-their-overall-design-philosophy choice. If the point of removing all the established lore about e.g. goblinoids...

IME Kobold Press has a lot of great ideas, but I often find their idea of "balanced" to be pretty far removed from mine.

Oh man, I once got a four pack of Hong Kong kung fu dvds. One of them was given different title on the box than on the surface of the disc, and its plot was basically nothing like the box claimed. It was dubbed and also had subtitles (which were always on, not like these days where you can turn...

A fair number of dnd monsters are drawn from non-Western sources, and a fair subset of them were around before e.g. Oriental Adventures or Kara-Tur were.

I miss the Scent special quality from 3e.

But why? What does the change make better? What problem does it fix? It feels like a change for the sake of change.

Yeah, this is an obvious but apparently unanticipated consequence of changing legendary monsters from LAs to reactions. I complained about it during the playtest, but apparently to no avail. I don't see how LAs are difficult to understand or any harder to handle than extra reactions, and I don't...

I ran a great session last night, playtesting my own homebrewed version of dnd. It was this iteration's first playtest, and my first revision of it since 5e dropped 10 years ago. The short description of the game system is that it's not the dnd you know; it doesn't even use the core "d20...

I do 10 levels, but only the basic four classes- the others are achieved via feats. F'rex: NECROMANCER You can spend 10 minutes performing a ritual over a corpse to turn it into a skeleton or zombie. The ritual requires arcane or religious components costing 25 gp per HD of each...

I'm into it. My own homebrew heartache version of D&D- "dnd Jazz"- is ten levels, with significantly reduced hps and damage- at least in its current form, we're playtesting tomorrow night. It's much closer to 1e or Basic than the revised 5e rules.

Ouch.

I'm not sure that this demonstrates a player vs DM mentality so much as a willingness to let the dice roll how they may.

I mean, that's the very definition of power creep. Did clerics need a buffing?

My group definitely engaged in a certain degree of Gygax hero worship back in the day. Even now we largely regard him as a flawed genius.

Methinks you have some catching up to do. This has been addressed, and eloquently, on these forums many times; and Gygax's own words, given to us from as early as some of his pre-1e writings to as late as (I want to say) the 00s, here on this very forum, make a pretty damning indictment as...