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I remember the creators of d20 Modern, about 20 years ago when it came out, answering that question. One of the authors of d20 MOdern said that every time he tried to run modern games, his players would always try to "game the system" around modern-day credit. They'd have characters that would...

I liked that they made an official D&D-compatible modern-day game. I disagreed with a LOT of design decisions in d20 Modern. I hated the base/advanced/prestige class system. . .forcing characters to take generic "base" classes their first 3 levels before they could qualify for the advanced...

With the PHB, DMG and MM for 3.0 and 3.5, the 3.0 and 3.5 Psionics books, Deities & Demigods, and the ELH, those were all made OGC via a SRD release, not via the book themselves. Same with d20 Modern, Urban Arcana, the Menace Manual and d20 Future. Look in UA, it has a declaration of open...

UA was meant to be a toolkits for DM's to customize their games, not a buffet for players looking for cool new tricks. Also, UA dumped a LOT of ideas into open game content since almost the whole book was OGC (and the only WotC book to do so), which was cool because it let others use ideas like...

Forgotten Realms and Planescape have been deeply connected since Planescape was created in 2e, and Forgotten Realms fitting into the "Great Wheel" cosmology goes back to 1e and early Realms stuff. There were even crossover adventures in 2e, like Tales from the Infinite Staircase (PS). ...

There's also the TMNT HeroClix that were made a few years ago, which are probably cheaper on the secondary market than most of the options given.

I disagree entirely. The alleged "problem" with 3e was all the "forum meta" and online culture that had people using 3e in ways it absolutely, positively was not designed for. All this "CodZilla" nonsense, and tiers, and other forum jargon. . .that cleanly divided 3e players into two camps...

I don't think that's standard in the industry. Lora Johnson was a publisher of a number of reference works for Star Trek and Star Wars, including Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise and Worlds of the Federation and the Star Wars Technical Journal, on top of a number of novels she wrote, but all...

This is the real punchline. All this fuss, all this argument. . .they don't even make any actual gaming products. Not even some simple adventures or shovelware-grade forgettable sourcebooks. The only thing they seem to make is controversy, and their main means of income appears to be...

3e never had that feeling for me, but I know we played mostly with the core 3 rulebooks for actual rules. . .and only went outside them a little here and there for setting or character specific options. If we were playing Realms, add the Player's Guide to Faerun. If it's Dragonlance, add DLCS...

There WAS a controversy in Russia where someone in the Russian Federation, they got a Russian court to rule that a Russian citizen has all the rights to the SCP Foundation and that the creative commons license was unenforceable. I think they eventually got that ruling overturned, but a...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Internet Forum culture was the weak point of D&D 3e. You hear so many complaints about it. You know what, those complaints pretty much started online, and people complained about it online, and people complained about it in the real world because...

I think that means you take 9d4 damage. . .between 9 and 36 points. Old D&D books weren't very good about spelling out actually how many dice were to be rolled, and would often list the minimum and maximum amount of the roll and you had to figure out what the dice would actually be.

I reckon it as that Hit points aren't just one thing, they're a combination of several things, since they're an abstraction of how much injury or trauma someone can withstand. They're partly "meat", that's why you can get extra ones from high CON scores. They're partly exhaustion and fatigue...

Since this is supposed to be in the same continuity as TOS, it's not so much that Khan will return, because he hasn't been defrosted yet. Strange New Worlds is supposed to take place starting circa 2257/2258, shortly after the end of Season 2 of Discovery (when Discovery takes it's one-way...

So, in other words, WotC is telling longtime D&D fans they aren't welcome in 5e and that decades of learning lore isn't appreciated, in fact it's scorned? Retroactively rebooting all of D&D lore, in all settings and core lore effective 7 years ago? Telling Realms fans that the Sword Coast...

Canon is canon. Why would you need to change the lore to "suit the needs of current players"? That makes no sense. Seriously, I don't see why or how you would need to change any lore to suit any players. Players learn the lore of the game, they shouldn't have the lore re-tailored to them...

They shouldn't. What is established canon should stay that way. Blatant and consistent disregard for established lore was one of the reasons 4th edition was so controversial, for example. Change the rules, but the lore should be absolute and unchanging. If a designer disagrees and wants to...

This is the point in the story where people start to cover tracks, perform damage control, delete accounts, and salvage reputation.

What about "That time White Wolf threatened to sue every LARP group that didn't pay them for a license to run a LARP set in WoD." What about "That time that Games Workshop decided to trademark 'Space Marine' and got the entire sci-fi community coming down on them like a ton of bricks?" Those...