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There are scrapers out there that turn it into a proper e-book. No links at the author's request, but the author is okay that they exist.

Hell, it was famously D&D at one point, only instead of the current "it's going to turn everyone into a bigot" it was "it's going to turn everyone into a Satanist." It didn't then, and it won't now. I understand a certain degree of change to address instances where real life cultures and...

If you like reading, I highly recommend checking out Pact. It's a pretty long (~950k words) horror/urban fantasy, and it has one of the more interesting applications of magic I've read.

Vestiges? Implements? Pacts? Fan of Wildbow's work, I take it?

It's not quite in line with the topic, but my own opinion is that alignment should be less what you are and more what you're aligned with, and it should be vary in strength based on degree of separation from the source of alignment. The further from the source, the more likely for there to be a...

I don't think that's a good example. "Bandit" is in the MM, yes, but it's in the section titled "non-player characters" and specifies that they can be human or non-human(with the racial features being the difference). The bandit and other NPC entries exist for the same reason that monster...

Logically, if an ASI weighs the same as a duck, then it's made of wood. Which means...?

I've had sessions that really stretch what could be called "playing Dungeons and Dragons" to the breaking point. One time we had a major encounter (this was back in the 90s, 2E) that was essentially a demigod level threat just coming into existence. We got told by the DM to start rolling our...

Funny thing: the Beatles had strong opinions on money not being able to buy love, but they had little to say about the many things you can't spend love on. Once I'm able to sustain my earthly needs with nothing other than positive emotion, I'll stop putting so much emphasis on the pay part of...

"You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, 'as...

I voted for the third option, which was close to what I go for. Players can die for any reason, but I do try to steer the results when the dice rolls decide to just pile on a player. Dying because the enemy gets a lucky shot is one thing; dying because every action you attempt fails...

I've decided that all stats from now on shall be condensed into a perfectly manageable two: effort and laziness. Here's how it works. Whenever you want to put effort into an action, you roll against your effort stat. And you never roll for laziness. It's an automatic success whenever you...

I was thinking more along that scene from The Mummy (1999) where Beni pulls out holy symbols from every religion on earth in an attempt to ward off Imhotep.

Honestly, I'd just incorporate any foci that I'd need for reaction spells into my outfit so that they are always on hand.

Seems pretty easy by dint of the permanent nature of text. It's not like they don't know what they've published. Time consuming? Absolutely. But only for the initial setup. Hire a team to comb through all the old material, build a wiki out of it, and then create custom software similar to...

That doesn't follow at all. There's a reason that the step before level 1 isn't tracked by any numerical factor like the levels after are. It represents the beginning of a character as an adventurer. What happened before that? That's up to the player, and dictating that all players of all...

And how much XP does it take to get to level 1 again?

I actually liked those. It made it super easy to prepare an adventure with the monsters you were planning on using separated for easy access. Completely obsolete now with digital tools being what they are, but it came in handy at the time, and I was actually annoyed when the MM came out as a book.

Not to mention that yes, 100% a fighter and wizard can have disparity in the amount of training required to qualify as a level 1 character. For that matter, so can a wizard and sorcerer. There are different themes and tropes surrounding each character class, and there's no reason why level 1...

Githzerai - only if psionics are in play Warforged - not of the Eberron variety specifically; I just like the concept of a sentient machine in a fantasy setting. I had a 2E character that was inspired by the Clockwork Swordsman monster. Kenku - birds are cool. Djinn - genasi are neat too, but...