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You can always spot a British RPG book because everyone is wearing "armour", the battle gear of love. :heh:

When you talk about what came after D&D but influenced D&D's later additions...you are talking about a circular ecosystem. Much of what influenced later D&D was itself influenced by Tolkien and early D&D. I would point to serialized fantasy novels of the 1980s and 1990s, for example the Pern...

Pretty much. min-uh-TARR and SAY-tur.

I'm calling you immortal. ;)

Wait, there's another pronunciation!? How DO British folks say those words?

Everything in Europe is old. There's buildings over 300 years old, just sitting around on streetcorners. As an American, I really enjoyed my trip to Dublin, London, and Paris earlier this year. The history was all around you. Also, whenever I see "gaol" I picture a dyslexic soccer announcer...

If I had to choose, I'd say the current system (in my example point buy/array and stat bumps at certain level) works better. Becoming godlike alongside your companions seems compelling, and the bounded stat maximums keep it generally in line with the classic "3-18" stat range. It is certainly...

A smart dragon disguises its color when flying about terrorizing villages, so the adventurers that eventually show up will prep all wrong.

This is my favorite sentence in a rules variant pitch. You said it right as I was thinking it lol. But for a one-shot there are some cool concepts here.

I am really enjoying this show, to where it's become one I look forward to every week. The Good: I like that it is at it's core, it is a TNG/DS9 era Trek show. The sci-fi tech, the moral quandaries, the action beats, the sweeping orchestral music...it's all there. The moral quandary aspects...

Risky post in 3...2...1... I've always thought the Zulu looked like freakin' badasses. I figured it was just a "Hollywood" portrayal, but the images on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_people(NSFW) Wikipedia page do indeed look freakin' badass. But man could it be problematic...tribal...

Great explanation of your concerns! I have played both and enjoyed both, but seeing level 1 side-by-side I can see how a new druid would feel "outshined" by a nature cleric in the same party.

PotA seemed very disjointed, to be fair. Week to week, our group would always be like "last time we wandered somewhere and one or more elemental subcults that were or weren't working together engaged us there". Even our DM was dissatisfied with the direction in that campaign, and felt it made a...

One more: Using your noisy wooden dice tower idly when it isn't your turn, like it is a freakin' fidget spinner.

1. My biggest peeve is the phone use. If it isn't a break, you shouldn't have your phone out. There's obvious exceptions: 1) Looking up D&D related info 2) Responding to an unexpected call or text. These session 0 rules are great: 2. Overly disruptive characters are my second biggest pet...

Don't worry, some other posters stepped up and took on the "jerk guy" role. :p

The chances of a new setting is slim to none. The chances of old settings getting standalone support is also slim to none. The best shot is a survey of the various classic settings within one Manual of the Planes/Multiverse book. Why do I say this? Multiple settings fracture the playerbase, as...

A staple of D&D has been the building of keeps, castle, wizard towers, dungeons, etc. While I tend my games as nonstop crisis with a clock ticking (Evil armies on the move, etc)...I tend to insert a "build a base" element. Typically, the party comes across NPCs that they commission to...

They could associate themselves with a new deity perhaps? "The clever bird chooses the branch whereon to perch; the wise servant selects the master to serve." - Traditional Chinese saying

Oh snap. Imaro put some points in trapmaking.