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So long as I'm confident the DM has spent lots of time and effort coming up with a coherent magic item economy, created a lot of memorable and quirky NPCs and magic item shops, and generally gone all out for verisimilitude, such that I could spend the session shopping if I wanted to, then I'm...

So when you said there are clearly only 5 editions of D&D, in the post I quoted earlier, what you actually meant was there are 11 editions of D&D. Is that clearly 11 editions of D&D, or are the first 6 a matter of opinion?

So which edition was the Mentzer Red Box I started with in 1984 (or thereabouts)?

Your players are extravagant spendthrifts compared to mine. Why pay for a cheap inn, when you can just use a rope trick and get yourself 0.00001% closer to upgrading that cloak of resistance? So in my campaigns I handwave subsistence costs as well. PCs don't pay for inns, meals or other mundane...

Reminds me of the good old days of 1st / 2nd edition. Player: I ask around town to see if anyone is interested in buying a +1 longsword DM: Magic items are rare and precious. They aren't a commodity to be bought and sold. That +1 longsword is the result of a long and tortuous creation process...

Ready access to magic items is a fundamental part of Pathfinder 1e. Challenge ratings are based on PCs having the appropriate "wealth" for their level - and that doesn't mean throwing gold pieces at the monsters. In my games, whenever the PCs are in town, they can buy and sell magic items to...

Just had an £8 refund. Thank you very much!

As it is now Friday, I've just bought it. As usual, I've done a bulk buy to get the free shipping for orders over £100, but seems like that is no longer available to customers in Guernsey so I've had to pay an extra £8 "international" shipping.

I can't find it on your website. Is that because it isn't Friday yet, or am I just looking in the wrong place?

One set of Sanity rolls won't wipe out an entire party (or rather, anything that can do that can also physically rip them apart in very short order, so it becomes moot). However, the Keeper in this case apparently didn't let the players know that their characters' Sanity was being affected...

The only "cosmic horror" scenario I'm familiar with is "Machine Tractor Station Kharkov - 37" which is almost "unwinnable" unless the Keeper beefs up the clues a lot. It's very bleak, only useful as a one-off, and the PCs have plenty of guns but mostly use them on each other. Hopefully I'll get...

We had a lot of fun playing it. Nobody can too close to dying / going insane. My character was a nightclub singer, with Sing 70%, so hardly a combat monster. (I did use Sing at one point, and one of the other players said "Oh, you actually can sing. I thought 'singer' was a euphemism for an...

But stay away from the 4th edition adventure Marauders of the Dune Sea. I'm convinced it was written for the Forgotten Realms and then adapted for Dark Sun by someone who didn't know anything about the setting. It has a chuul in it. Sitting in a stream. I'd never really understood nerd rage...

In this case, the "Amphibious" quality is actually telling you that it can breath air. These days I prefer the Pathfinder stat blocks, as that's what I'm used to - I always look for stuff in the wrong place on 3rd edition stat blocks.

As a non-American, I also have trouble reading "binder" as three-ring notebook, since the number of rings doesn't seem that important to me. Do Americans have a different word for a two-ring binder or a four-ring binder? Two rings is standard where I live, and you can get four-ring ones if you...

The PF1 description says you throw it by gripping the ring, not the handle. Of course, PF1 also says that if you worship Desna you can use your Charisma modifier to hit and damage with a starknife.

In our current PF1 campaign the PCs are now 16th level. Most of our campaigns get that far, or further. So it can be done. On the other hand, the amount of mind-caulk involved (re-stating monsters on the fly, throwing out stuff that's more trouble than it's worth and generally weaving around...

Me too. He also links to supplementary products and even adds his own stuff that he made to run the adventure. In the last review of his I saw, he complained that there was no Players' Map - so he photoshopped the GM's map to remove all the spoilers and added a link to it.

There are thousands of feats in Pathfinder, but when I started playing it was Core Rulebook only by necessity - because that was all there was. Each book added new options, and I'd get them when they came out and read them to see what grabbed me. When we introduce new players to Pathfinder we...

Paizo does like their haunts. They seem to pop up in most of the adventure paths. As a GM, I love them; as a player, not so much ... I've been using Archives of Nethys for years, and I'd never thought to click on the "sources" option so see what it does, so thank you for that! The Mythic rules...