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They definitely didn't. 5 years later and there's still no psionics system, no system for Epic Levels, and a LOT of character concepts that you could make with earlier editions do NOT work in 5e. 5e works well for doing a basic, plain-vanilla 1-20 campaign. . .but if players want more unusual...

Same. I eventually moved to it because so many others were, and because it did have improvements and I know some of the specific changes were made to patch things rules lawyers were exploiting. . .but 3.0 wasn't so inherently broken it needed a major revision just 3 years after it was released...

Yeah, 3.0 was GREAT when it came out, it was far superior to 1e or 2e. 3.5 was in some ways a rough transition, just enough changes that you really needed the new core books and couldn't have half the players with one book and half with another, but too few changes to really feel "different"...

I think this is why me and my gaming group never burned out on 3.x and still play it, because we mostly started with 1e or 2e and went straight to 3e from those editions. Nobody else in the group reads forums, and I don't care about "builds" or character optimization or other "forum meta". If...

I moved from 3.0 to 3.5 in 2005 (I gave 3.5 a couple of years before migrating to it). Everyone I know who played 3.0 eventually migrated to 3.5. Some might not have done it immediately when 3.5 came out, and only switched over a few years later, but by the time 4e and Pathfinder were on the...

They might have retconned that in later, but Dark Sun was created in the 2e period, almost 20 years before the concept of "primordials" was introduced into D&D. If there's any talk of 4e-isms like "Primordials" in Dark Sun lore, they weren't there already and were inserted in 2008 or later...

Twenty years ago this month, the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook, 3rd Edition, was released. I thought this might be a good time to remember the release of 3e and talk about the release and the changes it brought to gaming. The release was the focus of this website when it was...

Many people point out Slayers, which is the example I came here to mention as well. That said, there actually was a d20 Slayers book released in 2003 by Guardians of Order, so it's already been adapted into a D&D-derived/compatible system, so it's definitely there (IIRC, they had Lina as being...

Would Templars be a sub-class of Warlock with Sorcerer-Kings as a Warlock patron? Templars gain their powers from pacts with the Sorcerer-Kings to channel power from them, deriving their power ultimately from the unique connections the Sorcerer-Kings forged to the elemental planes. It seems...

In a Planescape game, I saw Kender (from Dragonlance) get ahold of a Ring of Wishes. The player, in true Kender style, put on the ring, and before anyone in the party could stop him, said: "I wish for lots and lots of really neat stuff." . . .the game paused while the DM had to consider that...

A lot of things people might take offense at today, would have NOT been accepted if done a different way in the 1980's or 1990's. I remember a High School English teacher lecturing our class (circa 1995) on why "they" as a singular pronoun instead of "he" or "she" was inappropriate and they'd...

The novel is Sarek by A. C. Crispin . The curveball there is that Peter Kirk is substantially more experienced than a typical Cadet, and has a lot more detailed knowledge of Romulan culture than any normal cadet (or officer) would, and manages to throw a curveball into the simulation to the...

I haven't followed Rifts in about 15 years and have only been an occasional visitor to ENWorld in the last decade, so I must have missed that announcement. Very vnteresting to see that he allowed it. It's certainly more progressive than the mindset he showed in the early 2000's.

For better or worse, this is the best summary of Rifts I've ever seen. Also, I thought Palladium Games was notoriously hostile to anyone discussing playing their settings with another system. I know that in the early 2000's, message boards that even had people talking about a fan-made d20...

Armed merchantmen used to be typical, until around 200 years ago. Merchant (and explorer) ships were armed because of the threat of piracy. The decline of piracy in the late 18th century generally put an end to armed merchant ships. In World War I and World War II, merchant ships were...

Fantasy, at least in gaming, is largely standardized through the influence of D&D. We've got pretty standard assumptions about what magic is, what it can do, about what monsters are out there, about society and generally how the world works. Even if it's a "generic" adventure, the assumptions...

This is Vayda, she's a Morkie (half Maltese/half Yorkie). She's an awesome little girl who is full of love and cuddles. She just turned 3 last month, but she's still a pup at heart.

Planescape. Tony DiTerlizzi used that specific art style for that campaign setting. There's a huge amount of art done in that style to describe all kinds of planar stuff in D&D. A quick search turns up this retrospective thread about that artist and his style in that setting: Artist Tony...