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It's easy to forget that D&D originally was a two-dimensional system. Its Chainmail roots are obvious, but implicit in that is we didn't start with rogues either, or climbing walls. The entire concept of a three-dimensional space wasn't really part of the game, and flight wasn't addressed much...

If I recall, a lot of those articles were in response to player behavior, not just the rules themselves. That is, player had characters would do stupid things like fall off 100 foot cliffs because "they could take it" knowing the math would never add up to certain death. Later versions of D&D...

I see what you did there! 🧛

According to the Chinese zodiac, 2024 was the year of the wooden dragon. The irony is not lost on me, and sure enough, the dragon set itself on fire a few times. Keep Building the RPG Community (4 out of 5) I'm currently the Chair of the Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games...

@brimmels article on the preview (with even more art and some full stat blocks) goes live at 12 p.m. ET today, stay tuned!

That's how I set out my campaign, although it's increasingly stretching to years due to scheduling challenges. Another benefit is players can drop out without it being massively disruptive, and we can recruit new ones, when the mini-campaign ends. To date, not all of my players have made it to...

To put a finer point on it: you can't. It's not legal and infringes on WOTC's domain, that's why nobody does that. Kickstarter let it slip through, but I suppose they don't police IP.

This thread is super long, so hopefully this has already been added: Satyress: Satyress - Wikipedia The male equivalent of a hag in Celtic folklore was the bodach: Bodach - Wikipedia Many of the "hag partners" were for some reason characterized separately a giants in D&D (for a long time, hags...

Somewhere before the Humanoids book there was a surprisingly long Dragon magazine where you could play monststrous humanoids too. We used those rules first before the Humanoids book came out, if I recall correctly.

I'm still trying to figure out how you can launch a crowdfunding campaign with the words "D&D" in the title.

I wrote a letter to the editor in Dragon Magazine about this. What would happen, which is absurd now in the age of digital, is people would open boxed sets that had monster pages and STEAL THEM. So you'd get a boxed set with the plastic torn open, and the only thing that would be missing was...

I regularly aggravate Corone on so many levels. 😁

To that point, they are essentially two subsystems colliding. Which is it: a skill-based system (many TTRPGs have archetypes which are just skill sets grouped together) or classes. D&D in particular tries to have it both ways, and thus the two systems don't quite line up sometimes. Classes are...

Skill lists in every RPG ever have bugged me, particularly when they don't seem to mesh well with classes who should have them (like Nature/Religion as an Intelligence skill for druids/clerics). I know there are a few systems where you can make a reasonable overlap between skills you get a...