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Yeah, I'm starting to feel sorry for them. They're just drawn that way, they can't help it. >:

Yeah, I have no problem with art like that, either (in moderation). I believe the problem most people have is that in a lot of fantasy art, women wearing skimpy clothes has become a cliché. It's happened so many times in the past that even seeing it once more starts to feel like too much...

I've used them in two different games. The first one was an Adventurer's League game where plot points could be spent to cause something you envision to happen, but then the person to your left invents a complication to the new development, to balance things out. I used a plot point when we were...

Oh, I plan to, once I actually get a group together again. I was really inspired by this collection of old campaign journals that were very fun to read and that I link to at basically every opportunity. I hope to someday have adventures as good as those, and the skill to recount them in an...

Oh, that just made me realize: Illusionists would make really great DMs. They could just project the map and miniatures onto the table, and it would always look just the way they wanted. Do you think bards in D&D would become medieval animators, sharing illusory movies to accompany their...

I remember in the AL HotDQ game I played, there was one point where we tangled with a roper, and we got in really deep trouble. Recall that ropers snare people with their six tendrils, each of which can extend up to 50 feet. Which in this situation meant it could grab you no matter where in the...

The DMG idea of giving Inspiration to players that take risks is something I want to try, because I like encouraging players to buckle their swashes. Has anyone else tried this rule? Was it fun?

I always forget to give it out, but the DM in an AL game I played for a while was pretty good about it, especially considering the character roster changed every session. And even though yeah, you're technically supposed to declare inspiration BEFORE a roll, we always just did it after the roll...

Well, as I mentioned earlier I just flipped through the 4e PHB to see how diverse the art there was, and there was only one person with black skin (the female halfling in the race section) in the entire book. Maybe the other books did a better job, but at the very least I can say with certainty...

I like to use minor illusion to create needlessly complex 3D holo-maps of the areas we're in if someone needs directions.

It defies all expectations, but I swear using the Speed Factor initiative variant makes combat a lot more quick and suspenseful. When everybody decides what they'll do ahead of time, there's no boring waiting because everybody is paying close attention to the initiative countdown and silently...

Can we make more of the threads here just be people sharing cool experiences they've had with the game? I mean, discussing the merits of different game mechanics and stuff is fun, but I've gotten bored with it and want to play vicariously through people with more free time than me.

I once heard of a D&D group that played a game set entirely in a tavern, where different PCs each recounted tales and the players would then act out the flashbacks. Whenever someone died, there'd be an abrupt "Wait, that's not how I remember it..." from one of the present-day PCs, and the story...

Yeah, D&D is pretty great. I like it! Might be fun if more people started topics about interesting things they did in the game, so it's not ALL rules questions. I plan to do some sort of campaign journal if I start a game and it's going well.

Not to mention your hearing and eyesight! http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0218.html

I'm only four years older than this student of yours, and I pretty much feel the same way as him. The main difference is that the first version of "D&D" I played was just me and my cousins making up silly stories and pretending it was D&D. We gave our characters stats, mostly basing them off...

Oh! there's a thing in the DMG that explains how much money and magic a character starting at a higher level should have depending on the common-ness of magic items in the setting!

I never got the third 4e PHB. What was special about the seeker?

Yeah, the Draconians are notoriously bad at morality. I prefer a Dragonborn morality.

Oh, I see. Since the likelihood of a crit increases the more enemies are attacking you, many weak foes would be more dangerous than one strong foe. Part of me wants to say that sounds about right for a mob to be the most dangerous enemy, but the idea that injury severity should be based off...