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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    I think trying to accommodate that game and level-one-beating-up-goblins-with-a-stick in the same ruleset is a fool’s errand.
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    Amazon takes over Bond franchise

    Set Bond in the 60s. Better cars, better gadgets, no mobiles or computers to undermine plots.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    tbf superman is a boring dork
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    OSR Does anybody know anything about this OSR adventure: Gods of the Forbidden North?

    dont see the fuss, looks like normal LG propaganda to me /s?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    and that material needs to be transform D&D into “Demigods and Domains” rather than some dreary splatbook thats a really just a bunch of munchkin tcg “+10 Ancient” cards pasted together
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    OSR Looking for an OSR d20 chimera

    Interesting, but seems tied to save-your-own-village play rather than supporting freewheeling murderhoboism. (Ive got shelves of 1E material)
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    OSR Does anybody know anything about this OSR adventure: Gods of the Forbidden North?

    Is The Problem the whitewashing of Catholicism or is it actually the inane certainties of the D&D alignment system?
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    You're approached by a Hollywood exec...

    The Continuing Adventures of Fafhrd and Grey Mouser Tales of the Dying Earth Korgoth of Barbaria
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    I thought the grog wars were old gits vs 3E, long overtaken by The Event that was 4E.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    Aha! so you don’t like The Surfer because they efficiently despatch a conveyor belt of CR(loads) foes, but because they grapple with the cosmic paradoxes of Reality, Existence, Morality, etc
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    Aha. Well theres your answer. Most D&D Players want to be Aragorn, not The Silver Surfer.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    Im curious. What playing itch is scratched at level 20 that isnt scratchable at level 12 ?
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    OSR Looking for an OSR d20 chimera

    So im thinking of running a game for some newbies and im in knots what system to run. A hybrid is fine. Specifcation: Survivable 1st level characters. Or, damn it, useless 1st level but everyone starts at 2nd Epic10 ish - ie a low powered , low/mid magic world Unified xp table Milestone...
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    a) its 80/20 b) its the kind of bunk that infects linkedin and is dispelled by a moments thought
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    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    Im more interested in “why should Hasbro matter to ‘grognards’”?
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    Amazon takes over Bond franchise

    I hope amazon apply the same thinking to Bond as they did to RoP. It would be awesome to see Bond have a chainsaw duel with Caligula .
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    D&D 5E (2014) Bleak Expectations: A Dickensian Adventure for 12th Level Characters

    Have you no faith?! Probably these armies have macguffins of non- vaporisation or some other clever workaround. Or the scullery maids are 7th level.
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    AD&D 2E Huh. AD&D 2e is my favorite D&D

    my pleasure though i can not fathom why your yum would be the edition-ness of 2E rather than its qualities. Im calling it 1.75E so yar boo sucks
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    AD&D 2E Huh. AD&D 2e is my favorite D&D

    I dont even think of 2E as an “edition” Its just 1E with some bits sanded off and some other nobbly bits glued on.
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