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Why does being an angry human give you an intelligence of 7? Why would that give the person a bonus action movement towards hostile creatures? Why do all angry humans get that? If not all of them, why do only some of them get the extra movement when all tough, angry humans are tough and angry...

If the mechanics are not representing portions of the fiction, then they have failed at their job. If you have different mechanical representations for the same fictional circumstance, the game has failed at its job. The game should be coherent, not be fragmented into different ways to...

That NPC druid isn't the druid class. It's like the Acolyte background. They are priests and clerics are priests. The "druid" NPC isn't the PC class with a different mechanical representation. It's just something else that is using the same name, like if my paladin called himself a fighter...

I can't wait for the dueling hair episode.

So was @James Gasik ;)

To be fair, we weren't even out of high school and only really had the teachings of Gygax to follow, so make things punitive was sort of the way things were done if you didn't want the players to have it.

I don't know. It was a looooooooooong time ago. It certainly wasn't for balance reasons. The same DM also had his own magic items tables and there was a special chart that you could reach that included all the deity weapons from the Deities and Demigods. At one point one of my PCs had a +6...

I think he did read her books. She had shields(psionic defenses), psionic attacks, psionic powers, etc. He just put them into the game in a modified fashion the same way the 1e ranger is Aragorn, yet not exactly Aragorn.

I think 75%-80% of the groups I played with didn't allow it. One of the groups I played with that did allow it let you roll for it, but if you failed you lost 1 point of int, wis and cha as a penalty for trying. In that group I was the only one who ever tried, and even then only if I had 1...

Witch: (to the holy man conducting the trial)" YOU pick it up!" Cleric: "Er..." Crowd: "Burn them both!"

Shedu, Ki-Rin, Coatl, Mind Flayer, and Intellect Devourer are psionic creatures in the MM. Cerebral Parasite and Thought Eaters are anti-psionic PC monsters. More psionic creatures got added in later monster books.

Honestly, if I did it I'd go with number 2, but I'd start level 1 at +1 and finish at +10. Bonuses don't mean a whole heck of a lot and the first two levels go by lickity split anyway.

Why does that matter? My point is that the gods in a fantasy game can and do prove that they are gods.

Suddenly I'm seeing Jews in Space from History of the World Part I.

I did the same thing. My wife was okay with it, but I wasn't about to spend a million dollars on a house only to have "rent" and other folks telling me what I can or can't do with my house.