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I'm running my 5e game with simple D6 group initiative. I find it fosters teamwork and collaboration more with my group. There is a lot of suspense when I roll a die for the monster and the players decide who should roll the dice to beat the 5 I just rolled. I also find that players are less...

Thanks for the link to that Luke Crane post. That was a very cool read.

Congrats on finding a copy of the Rules Compendium! It's my favorite D&D book of all time. I had a copy back in high school, but it went the way of all my D&D stuff when I went away to college (my mom unloaded a bunch of my toys, books, etc). I've missed that book more than anything (even more...

If you get to higher levels (level 10 or so), I recommend City of the Spider Queen for D&D 3.5. It's an excellent module and it's perfect for an all-drow campaign. Not to give too much away, but it deals with a threat to the drow that also envelops surface races. It's nice how it's set up so...

Well technically, the rules say "Divine magic, as the name suggests, is the power of the gods, flowing from them into the world. Clerics are conduits for that power, manifesting it as miraculous effects." It's pretty clear that the default D&D cleric gets its power from the gods. Now, you...

I REALLY like this line of thought. Psionics should alter the setting as much as the other power sources do. A setting that has divine powers has deities, gods, saints, miracles, clerics, paladins, temples, churches, inquisitions, crusades, and relics. There is a lot that ties this power to...

I'm not convinced this isn't sour grapes. We don't have both sides to this story, and I woudn't be surprised with Hasbro's new emphasis on licensing if someone else outbid Obsidian. We'll see if there are any announcements on video games in the near future. A new studio picking up D&D games...

Zak, this is extremely useful advice. I'm a graphic designer, and I never really thought much about the graphic design of RPGs. It's funny how much time I spend thinking about design in my regular job, yet I never applied any of that thinking to RPG design. There are really interesting ways to...

Most of those lost jobs are unskilled jobs or jobs reliant on skills in outdated technology. Writing is content creation, and there will always be a market for it if the author writes something people want to read. There is also money to be made in RPG writing. A very few people do very well...

Good idea! I may do that myself.

I bought the cleric and wizard packs already. These issues were preventing me from getting the other cards, but now I'll be able to get those, and may even replace my wizard and cleric cards in time. I really like the archetype packs since the eldritch knight in my party has to borrow a card...

I really appreciate all the advice and tools publishers and authors provide for aspiring RPG content creators. As a graphic designer, illustrator and writer with very few RPG credits, I've been interested in exploring self publication. I think it's awesome that you're publishing this stuff and...

Maybe a co-op people could join that provides subscription material? Something like a DDI for indie design (magazines get partway there, and of course the well-read blogs). Kobold Press is kind of close to that, but you don't really need a membership to read all the free material on their...

To be fair, Sine Nomine has fairly unique offerings. Though I buy hundreds of PDFs, Red Tide was one of my favorite books I've purchased in the last few years, and one of the few I opted to get in print (along with books from Frog God Games, Lamentations of the Flame Princess and Wizards of...

I think this just proves that RPG players need to pay more for books, realize that pirating ruins their hobby worse than any other medium, and convince their players to try GMing (since GMs spend more on RPG books). Seeing comments on DriveThruRPG complaining about an $8 200-page book always...

One factor that's important is player consistency. If your players are the same each session, then tracking XP is less important. They all get the same XP at the same time and all level up at once. I run an open sandbox game with a pool of a dozen or so players, with 3-8 generally playing any...

So far I've been using the D&D 3.5 XP chart for level advancement, but using the 5e MM XP for monsters killed, and rewarding XP for GP on a 1-to-1 basis. Since it's a sandbox campaign built around exploring, this gives the players incentive to search for treasure. The players that managed to...

I saw these on Google: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?398415-A-Red-and-Pleasant-Land-%285e-hack%29&p=6475770 http://searching-for-magic-blog.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-alice-character-class-for-5e-d-or.html Im considering introducing this material in the new 5e fairytale campaign...

In my game, halflings were the original humans, but humans with their ambition outgrew them, built cities and cathedrals, and forgot the hidden folk in their quiet valleys. Halfling PCs grow an inch every year they adventure. Gnomes, on the other hand, are solitary magical fey creatures that...

Of course! One note: decide if firearms have advantage vs natural armor. In my game they don't because it didn't feel right to blast through dragon scales, but it's up to you to decide the tone.Also, firing a gun in the dungeon is LOUD and really alters enemy tactics. Untrained mounts will also...