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Asking politely… Can the people who want to engage in endless squabbles over the rules please move that conversation to a new thread? Some of us would like to enjoy the spectacle of Vecna-stomping without added distraction.

$25 is comparable to what I typically pay for a movie, popcorn, and soda. So I could probably justify paying it if I thought the DM ran sessions well and I was enjoying the campaign. But I wouldn’t want to have to round up 3-4 friends and convince them to pony up, as well. At that point, I’d...

Pretty much this. For me, D&D is a hobby, and I’m not interested in paying someone else for the opportunity to do it. Nor do I expect anyone to pay me to play at their table. That said… DM-ing is a skill, acquired through time and practice. Like hitting a baseball, writing computer code, or...

I’m kind of surprised that we haven’t seen WOTC release or announce anything relating to Vecna. Even a short adventure for, say, Red Nose Day. I would assume that they knew that “Vecna” would be featured in the new season of Stranger Things, which has been in development for two years now. (And...

The obvious solution: The players should spare the succubus, and teach her to channel her demonic fury towards a new goal… Brutally murdering everyone who torments the region through flagrant disregard of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Run-on sentence abusers, of course, get even...

I’ll believe D&D is mainstream when second- and third-tier celebrities start playing the game, in an attempt to boost their visibility. pause Oh, dear Lord…

Lots of salient points about the lack of high-profile fantasy stories being made for film. Another factor is the rise of streaming services, and the need to provide a steady diet of new content for those services. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Witcher, and the upcoming GoT and LOTR...

You forgot “Proficiently with one gaming set (polyhedral dice)”

And here I thought we already HAD a Rock-‘em-Sock-em Robots movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433035/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

I too learned a lot of new words from reading the AD&D core rule books. But in fairness, most of those words were just the names of different kinds of polearms.

This lines up pretty well with my experience. I’m playing a Cleric in a game that’s now at level 5/6. Most of the other characters are reasonably well-optimized and have magic weapons. IME, Bless isn’t all that useful, or game-breaking, when you’re already adding a +3 proficiency bonus, +4/5...

All weapons do 1d6 damage Weapon vs. armor type modifiers Comeliness stat THAC0

Hot Take: If you want more people in your area to check out older editions, try to get your local library/school board to ban them…

Taking this one step further… The core rules are divided up into 4-5 booklets, and the booklets are packaged inside specifically-marked boxes of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs (or the Saturday-morning breakfast cereal of your choice.) There’s your “new format.”

I think this is the best thing I’ve seen in this entire thread. 1. It is delightfully ridiculous that, RAW, a thrown Goblin is not actually “Thrown,” 2. I love that there’s an important mechanical distinction between a goblin that you pick up and chuck and somebody, vs. a goblin that you pick...

There’s a Q&A after the game. It’s one of the first questions he answers. Then he gives basically a shorter version of the same answer a few questions later. ETA: The first iteration comes at about 3:14:30.

Like teitan said above, AD&D allowed more character creation options, so we instinctively concluded those rules were better and used those. If someone had wanted to be B/X Elf, we would have used F/MU multi-classing rules. A couple of us had copies of Holmes Basic (I know I did), but “all...

We freely mixed B/X and AD&D material. We worked out pretty quickly that the two rules systems had some differences, but they’re similar enough that we could make judgment calls where they conflict. I know that we ran some B and X modules with AD&D characters, and it worked out fine. Sometimes...

(From comicbook.com) https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-musical-here-there-be-dragons/ The creators appear to be actual D&D players and fans. The synopsis is similar to the stage play, “She Kills Monsters.”

Confirming my oft-stated theory that Zoom meetings are a tool of the devil. Unless they meant something else…?