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It gets better. The D&D you loved is still as good as it ever was, and in the 21st century... it's going to continue getting better every year as third-party publishers continue supporting it. You will even see third-party conversions of all the new stuff you're missing out on, making all the...

I'm in terrible physical condition. I'm morbidly obese and suffer from multiple debilitating medical conditions, and with hard work, discipline, and a little bit of luck-- hopefully I will be dead soon. Frankly, I am perfectly comfortable being fully nude in public. It's the public that's...

"Carapace is not so much being. Flesh underneath, not mammal flesh being. Superior insect flesh." She... preens. "Not offensing, intended. Parasites infesting mammal flesh, not infesting insect flesh. But other parasites infesting insect flesh, not infesting mammal flesh. Very few parasites...

I also meant to include the monster design, full stop, as good as it's ever been and as good as it ever will be again.

Kachilk'cha starts to address the plague doctor, and then stops. Before she makes her presence known, she backs off to a "respectful distance"-- what the mammals considered respectful and half again-- and assumes a less... combat ready posture. She tilts her antennae far forward, in a display of...

I'm not really a fan, and some of the answers you've already gotten are the reasons why... but there are a few parts of the system I really admire. POWERS: Every character has class actions they can do all day, every day, and big class actions they have to marshal and only deploy when the time...

I am Chaotic Evil, and I play a lot of Chaotic Evil (or Chaotic "Neutral") characters because that's... where I'm most comfortable. I like to play Bards and other healers because... well, I like the fantasy of having power over life and death, and using that power to keep the other PCs alive...

Body armor saves lives, period. I'm not arguing that modern kevlar and/or ceramic polymer body armors don't save lives... I'm arguing that late period plate-over-chain-over-quilt is still viable protection against modern weaponry. It's no longer relevant for logistical and economic factors, but...

I actually agree with these two, if you replace "darts" with "hands". But I don't necessarily think Wizards should be unable to to throw more-or-less unlimited balls of fire out of their hands. I just think Fighters should be better at it. And 4e rituals were vastly better than 5e rituals for...

I am not going to question the honesty of this statement, or make any predictions about these promises not being kept-- but I will say, I'll believe that these are products are not "one shots" when I see the seconds. I believe they were always planned to be one-shots, but I will accept it as a...

Any village idiot who grew up within a fortnight's walk of a troll den has been told time and time again by their parents and village elders to use fire (maybe not acid, but definitely fire) to fight trolls, regardless of any skills they may or may not be trained in. It is not metagaming to...

What do you think the hills are made of? Only two. The hard part is getting them in there. Or getting them back out again, depending on your perspective. Racial ASIs (even penalties and mental bonuses/penalties) for fantasy races make sense; the one defining characteristic that all "fantasy...

I'm accustomed to modern D&D style, but I want to adopt a hybrid individual-phase system where 1) individual initiative is rolled each round, 2) actions are declared in reverse initiative order, 3) actions are resolved within each phase (talking, moving, attacks, spells) in initiative order. I'm...

As a variant of Lanefan's #8, the new characters have to be "legacy characters" with a clear connection to the old, dead PCs-- but the legacy characters areall not for the players' own original PC, but for a different player's.

I have a very strong preference for games that attempt to simulate an in-game reality, games where the rules of the game are generally consistent and generally reflect a consistent universe and the physical/magical forces therein. You know... what some would consider the exact opposite of your...

Got a whole bunch of ones that are political and/or religious (especially and) that I'm obviously not even going to hint at here. Just establishing a baseline for my personality. D&D alignment is incoherent garbage and the only thing that can fix it is to discard it. All nine alignments as...

I was coming here to say Rogues in the House.

I keep a list of games I want to run. There are a handful of ideas always on that list-- Super Mario Bros isekai, Street Fighter anything, Spelljammer sandbox, MHR eXiles-- and I've usually got a few more that I'm dying to run, like D&D in a Groundhog Day loop or Terminator RPG in LA in the...

First movie I ever seen in the movie theater was A Nightmare on Elm Street. My parents' version of the "birds and the bees" talk involved a large (and sticky) pile of VHS tapes.

On the other hand, over the past thirty years of my life, I have played with far far more people that I'd rather punch in the mouth than have sex with, especially with everyone else at the table watching. Break out the battle axes, those numbers are a little closer but I'd still rather do...