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Not anymore. I used to, back in 2nd Edition. Spellcaster characters would literally have an extra sheet just for tracking components back then. The 3e concept of the component pouch, and the assumption that if you had one you were presumed to have any material components that didn't have a...

Well, cat people are nothing new at all. I knew a player back in the 90's that really, really wanted to play a cat person in D&D, but there really weren't any rules for it. She ended up joining a Star Wars RPG I was running at the time and playing a Farghul, since there was at least a...

While I very strongly agree with this, some people apparently get profoundly offended when any non-European setting is published and WotC is far, far too adverse to controversy to publish Al-Qadim, Maztica, or Kara Tur in the current cultural/political climate. There was a huge, long, very...

Yeah. My first actual D&D anything I ever bought was Pool of Radiance for the NES (which actually was a pretty faithful implementation of 1e rules, as I would later learn). I've been buying D&D tabletop materials since circa 1992 (the Black Box basic D&D set), played my first tabletop game in...

That's extra funny, since there's the St. Cuthbert in Greyhawk (and the broader D&D multiverse, as he's sometimes depicted in Planescape too), sometimes implied to be the same figure as the historic saint. Since St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne lived in a time when Christianity had to co-exist with...

Paganism was still common in rural Gaul until crushed by Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars of the late 8th Century. As late as the early 9th century, isolated pockets of old-style Greek Polytheists, still worshipping the Gods of Olympus, were found in the mountains of Greece, having been missed, or...

No. It just deletes that one line in the description, it doesn't actively change the lore. If anything, it just means that it's not mentioned or discussed in 5e. 30+ years of Forgotten Realms lore saying otherwise is still there. If you're one of the new fans who only reads and cares about...

These things have existed at other times and places in D&D's history. Dark Sun in 2e covered the kinds of armor that might be more common on a world where metal is very rare, like bone. The 3e Arms and Equipment Guide covered armor made out of stone and magically hardened leaves. 3e had a...

I had a theory, that I didn't include in the post, that the event where the Illithid, in the far, far future, sending themselves back in time, into the far distant past, to escape the destruction of their own vast Empire had SOMETHING to do with this cataclysm. I figured that was too...

A thought about the D&D multiverse and elves. In Spelljammer, one of the setting elements is the Elven Imperial Fleet, a vast and powerful fleet of ships that patrols known space. However, there is no Elven Empire, no known Elven homeworld, the Imperial Fleet nominally answers to the royalty...

In D&D 3.5, undead could still fall for many illusions, including one of a bridge. It depends on the subtype. Undead are immune to mind effecting effects, specifically charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects. (SRD:Undead Type - D&D Wiki) A simple static illusion of a...

Not long after that last post, I just plain stopped going. I didn't announce it, or give some formal resignation, I just got so fed up with it that I figured I'd come up with a better way to spend my Sunday afternoons and nights. Around the time I started the game, I met a nice young lady that...

About 20 years ago or so, we were playing a multi-year Dark*Matter Alternity game that involved aliens taking control of the US Government (the Sandmen, for those that know the setting), and the PC's working to undermine that alien control. . . . . .and around October 2001, we let the game...

I went and looked up the threads from 2006 where I came here complaining about that campaign. If you want to see a train wreck as it was happening, here you go:, I posted a new thread every few months as I was in that campaign...

Oh, I've been in that horror before. I posted about it on ENWorld ~14 years ago when it happened, but the short version is that when New World of Darkness was still new, an acquaintance wanted to run a campaign of it. Wanting to try NWoD, I volunteered. . .only to find she was a terrible GM...

You assume that Kelemvor would LET them take those souls. The current system, of the Wall of the Faithless and The False, was set up long before Kelemvor became the God of the Dead, it was first created by Myrkul when he was God of the Dead. Kelemvor inherited the position of God of Death...

If anything, it's "like attracts like." It's not that evil souls are thrown into the Nine Hells of Baator as some kind of punishment, it's that souls that are evil and lawful naturally gravitate there, where other evil and chaotic energies flow. Deities live there because the outer planes are...

I don't play 5e and don't know what they've written about it for 5e. In the 2e and 3e era materials I'm familiar with, they were pretty clear that you don't get punished for not selecting a patron deity. You get declared Faithless for outright rejecting all the deities in life, by refusing...

No, it isn't. That's a common misconception. Forgotten Realms materials were very clear that if you didn't actively chose a patron god, you didn't end up among the Faithless. Instead, your soul would be picked up by a deity of appropriate alignment or relevant portfolio to the deceased.

Eberron is a little TOO gonzo for me, but I like somewhere in between. I like the average, everyday people to have average, everyday, grounded lives. For a typical fantasy village to be fairly similar to any village you might have found from 3rd to 16th centuries, except for a modest, small...