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One of the things that was interesting to me about this original edition is that, like so many games that came out over the course of the first ten or fifteen years of game design is that the setting comes secondary to the rule. Wow, this is the first time I've ever heard this particular...

If this matters to you in some way that's great but keep in mind some of us were playing it for years before "The Known World" even existed. So retroactive canon is sort of revisionist history as far as I am concerned. There is nothing inside B1 in any printing that I am aware of that refers to...

Solve two problems at once - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/643710787/stat-trackers-a-gm-accessory-for-5e-dungeons-and-d They are incredibly useful - glad I backed the Kickstarter but you should be able to order them separately now.

It's amazing that people writing or commenting about a Pathfinder announcement seem to have little knowledge of the game. "Ultimate Campaign" came out in 2013 so it's been a published Pathfinder thing for 5 years now. It's 50+ pages of systems on how to make money or build things or accomplish...

I'm with you on this - "replayability" usually means wait a few years and play it with a different group. I suspect in this case it's more about providing options for the DM to tweak it to their personal preferences while still providing stats and guidance. There is also the thought that this...

Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, ICONS, Hero System has had them before, Mutants and Masterminds has been doing for all 3 editions ... Any system that adapts a third party license of some sort is allowing those third parties to publish supporting material. It got to be fairly popular since the OGL...

Thanks for this - the power of the internet is demonstrated once again!

0 level characters were never particularly popular as a whole. Certain groups or individual players thought they were great but mostly what they did was extend the amount of time you spent playing an incompetent, fragile, character with little combat power or magic ability and that's really not...

Big-name licensing has been tricky in the RPG world for a long time and I suspect that's a factor here too - on top of the author's rejection, of course. - In the middle of Lord of the Rings movies we had the one short-lived Decipher RPG and then nothing for 7-8 years. - In the middle of the...

If you're interested just get an original Rifts book (cheaper usually) or Ultimate Rifts (more up to date) and they cover the breadth of the setting pretty well. Most later books are either regional guides like Germany or Japan or Australia or metaplot updates like the war updates. I'd say...

So what's the story here? Over at Tenkar's Tavern they have looked at Feedspot and it appears you have to pay to receive this "award". Comments?

This article is all over the place. What does the pre-AD&D living campaign effort have to do with a future D&D movie? Any movie shared-universe effort is copying Marvel, not RPG campaign organization methods. Additionally, the fragmentation of the player base between multiple campaign worlds has...

A fun question - I think the answer is "Not as much as people have been trying to sell us on for the last 25 years" :D People have been doing D&D things on computers since the very early days. A lot of us were writing character generators, sheet generators, or encounter tables in BASIC on...

No, it's a completely reasonable position that's been part of RPG's since the first supplements came out. There were DM's who didn't allow Eldritch Wizardry, Greyhawk, or Blackmoor in their OD&D games because they didn't have them, hadn't read them yet, or didn't like what they saw. A DM is...

Wilderness travel and encounters, urban encounters, and flying characters or flying creatures all bring range into play in significant ways. Movement speeds of your party and those of hostile creatures are all factors here too. If a flying creature has a 150' breath weapon or a flying sorcerer...

I'm with you on this. If all people want is reassurance that the game is doing well then when WOTC says "Book X is selling really well for us" then that should be enough, right? But it's not, so people dig for numbers and come up with something like this 45,000 copies for Xanathar is a few...

Yes, there's definitely a place for them. Don't expect people who are unfamiliar with 4E to understand what you're doing the first time you use one but they are another useful tool in the toolbox. Also don't overlook the "Group Check" in the 5E skills chapter. I have used that quite a bit more...

Well it's nice to see a full-on embrace of the retro! Looking forward to this.

Let me dive into this with one perspective - I've been playing RPG's since 1979 when i was ten years old and I've never gotten away from the hobby. My longest break is measured in months, not years, so it's pretty much continuous for almost 40 years now. I've never played a single RPG session...

So at least 1987 Now we're up to at least 1998 for SR 3E So now we're at least up to 2001 when your grandmother bought you an 18-year old version of D&D? Was she at a con when she did that? Your described timeline is kind of a puzzle but alright. You were playing AD&D after you received...