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I think there's a hope that some setting-specific "crunch" gets translated, and that a 5e setting book for various settings would include setting-specific subclasses, feats, spells, monsters etc. Also, for settings that have heavy metaplot, like Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance, a metaplot...

I wasn't talking about him, I was responding to the original poster's query. In that context, the spell should work on a door, but not a huge gate.

A door, yes. . .in the sense of a normal door for a dungeon room or a house. A gigantic fort gate, no. Maybe the rule from 3.5e on the equivalent Shrink Item spell would be a guideline. In 3.x, the equivalent spell reduced an item that could be up to 2 square feet per caster level. You could...

You don't need to be needlessly pedantic. I was talking about classes that were in the core rules. 2e specifically removed Barbarians, Monks, Assassins etc. from the core rules. I don't care. There's a reason we start counting at 1st edition. OD&D is more like a prototype or...

Since some people here don't know what these restaurants are (they're all popular large US chains), I figure I'll give some explanation: 1. McDonalds. It's everywhere. I do suspect that pretty much everyone knows what McDonalds is. Largest fast food franchise in the world. Low-quality food...

Games Workshop definitely has a certain toxic wing to its fandom. There's a certain part of society that basically idolizes the Imperium of Mankind. . .they look at them and think THAT's what they want things to be like. Vehemently anti-science, xenophobic, authoritarian, religiously...

D&D orcs are NOT Tolkien's orcs. There are similarities, to be sure, but they are very distinctly different. One of the big differences between Tolkien's orcs and D&D orcs is that D&D orcs are CLEARLY established to have free will to choose good over evil. They aren't inherently evil, there...

D&D has already been like that for decades. It hasn't presumed that each and every last member of every fantasy race is nothing but a stereotype. In 2000, in 3e, we got descriptors of "always" or "usually" or "often" with alignments to describe how often they lived up to typical alignments...

I think that's beyond splitting hairs. In a D&D context, the difference between ogres and orcs is literally just one is a little taller and even stronger. They're both brutish humanoids. . .like people, except more muscular, and taller, and hairier, and uglier, and scary and violent. In a...

There are a handful of literary references predating Tolkien where they seem to be used interchangeably with ogres, as brutish, hostile humanoids that threaten humans. Tolkien certainly popularized them, but didn't invent them whole cloth. The etymology of Orc comes from the same origin as...

No. It won't. It's far too fashionable now to take something, call it some form of bigotry (racism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia), and raise a stink on social media all to drive likes/clicks/views. While bigotry is a very bad thing, there seems to be an active effort to try to find...

At least in my experience, the gaming culture of D&D moved away from miniatures in the 1990's. In the 90's, I saw AD&D 1e and 2e games being played, and even a few games of RC Basic D&D from different gaming groups. . .and only one session used miniatures, ever, not one game, one session for a...

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Alignment Languages still existed in 1e AD&D. P. 34 of the 1st edition Player's Handbook. It was quietly dropped in AD&D 2e, probably because nobody ever really used them.

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From the core rules: Individual initiative, weapon speed adjustment to initiative, weapon and nonweapon proficiencies, and exceeding level limits come to mind. We used the Players Option books, and used Character Points and CP based NWP's as well. We allowed the subability rules from the...

The word dates to 1856. Definition of WARLORD It was introduced to English as a translation of the German title kriegsherr or the Chinese title junfa. warlord | Origin and meaning of warlord by Online Etymology Dictionary WotC didn't invent the word, any more than they invented "Fighter"...

Tolkien actually was only one of several authors that were literary influences on D&D. D&D grew out of tabletop wargaming, and a medieval wargame called "chainmail" was something Gygax was playing in the early 1970's. The original idea was like a wargame, but to play just one character instead...

Yes. If we're talking about D&D being created today, ex nihilo, as if it had never existed before, that still would make it D&D, so there's an assumption that in being D&D, it would be some sort of vaguely medieval fantasy world. It DOES create the chicken and egg scenario that the last 40+...