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I still have trouble thinking of any D&D player being a grognard. Grognards were those old guys playing Napoleonic Wargames in the side rooms at Gen Con. But, using your definitions, I'm a "master grognard." I don't care if I matter. I have more gaming material than I need for the rest of my...

I'm running The Enemy Within campaign for WFRP4e. I still bought the PDF versions of the Dwarf Player's Guide and the High Elf Player's Guide. I enjoyed reading through both of the books, but don't find much to use from either in my campaign. There is a high elf among the party in my campaign...

Exactly. I can understand WoTC wanting every setting book to support every option in the PHB for business reasons, if their market research showed that it was necessary to achieve the sales numbers they need. I won't like it, but I can understand it. But the D&D fans who get worked up about it...

For those who feel strongly that dice need to roll for a bit on the table (or in the dice tray), and I include myself among you, are we making an exception for d4s out of tradition? Do any of you prefer or require "bullet style" or other more rollable d4s (example, another example, a third...

One reason I've accepted the wisdom of a solid, beaten up old table instead of a fancy, expensive game table. I don't want to be nagging people over using coasters and dice trays. Many years ago, a couple I know scavenged a large piece of a bowling lane from a bowling alley that closed down and...

Mine never had a need to figure out his way into the fridge. There are plenty of hibernating toads and baby rabbits to dig up, tasty sticks to chew, and lots of rabbit poop snacks to find in the yard (depending on the season).

I'm in the camp of liking settings that establish a unique feel through lore, new options, AND limitations. I would hope that they would just have a page that explains how certain assumptions from the PHP and more popular settings don't apply in this setting, but if you want to work in character...

Not sure how well they did, but I quite like Teros and Ravnica. I found Ravnica to be very fresh new D&D setting. But I have only enjoyed is as lonely fun. I don't have the time to homebrew adventures in the setting. If they had released a full adventure book for it as well, I would have...

Yeah, I can't really justify my having spend $20 per die for a full D&D set (including 2 d10s), but I don't have to. I just like them. They are alumnium so they are light but still have a heavier feel than cheap plastic dice. I like their coolness when holding them (as in temperature), and I...

My doggo is a golden retriever and was certainly not a better player than a cat when young. Like many retrievers he had bad pica. Would eat ANYTHING. Now that he's older, he just likes to lay in the room and won't bother to get up to even sniff a dropped die, pencil, etc. Food and napkins, on...

I think it might have a chance of working with cheap plastic dice placed that way on a window ledge with hot sun shine through or the dash board of a car. But leave too long and they might not roll at all.

I'd also be interested when rules were first published assuming gridded battlemaps. I think that using grids (e.g. Chessex battle maps, reverse sides of wrapping paper, etc.) probably started to become popular when modules publishing gridded maps (was Keep on the Borderlands the first instance...

Sorry for contributing to that. I have a bad habit of not reading through the entire thread before responding to a post. I think thats why it can sometimes feel like a pile on. Not that most posters are trying to pile on, they are just responding at the same time others are responding or are not...

I think it depends on where you lived and how easily you could get to various shops. We had some great hobby shops that would have lots of minis and pain supplies as well as TTRPG books. But, until we could drive, it was hard to get to those places. A parent would have to go out the way to bring...

In the 80s we mixed it up. Mostly TotM, but players would try to map as they explored and we would often mark location on the player-created maps, or just indicate location on scratch paper. Often we would use minis, bottle caps, candy, whatever was on hand, to indicate placement, just on the...

Didn't the OD&D books recommend and expect that the players would also have the Chainmail rules?

Minis can still be helpful without full out tactical grid use. Showing marching order. Tracking initiative. Showing and tracking status effects (knock the mini over when prone, hand colored rubber bands on them or put them on top of colored poker chips to indicate status effects), etc.

Yeah, I can see that. I'd be interested if there has been research in why that is? I'm sure it is just part of broader beliefs in luck, but why did that evolve? Is there any evolutionary advantage? It is just a side effect of other cognitive developments? I mean, I can see how certain...

Not sure what has me thinking so much about dice this Friday evening that I'm making two posts. Probably just missing in-person play. As a DM or other player, how do you feel about the following scenarios? Also, add other edge cases or tables rules regarding dice in your response. 1. Die...

There a spectrum of opinions regarding dice and the importance of balance. A healthy minority of gamers have strong preferences for balanced die. Louis Zocchi is the grandfather and first example I think of for this cohort. I've gone down this rabbit hole. When I got back into the hobby, older...