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I played AD&D 1e for decades and this spell never came up. Usually clerics just bought an iron holy symbol at character creation and didn’t worry about it after that.

I have seen that too, not with Tapatalk. Random, maybe?

Makes sense to me. An alternative to going rules light is to play a system your players know - as in get off the “new edition” bandwagon.

Yup. I’ve resisted most new editions. If you wait long enough, the “new” edition goes into the “Older Editions” section and ENworld et al. will move on to the next shiny thing. Play what you like, ignore the marketing that says what was good enough no longer is. Also, give yourself credit...

In my 3.5e campaigns, we have a no spells and no Favored Enemy homebrew version of the Ranger, like what you described. But 5e is quite different.

Gotta love the maps. I assume Tolkien drew his own? I might be wrong.

Archetypes in our collective unconscious. Myths (back to the Greeks) and legends and fairy tales and Tolkien all fit D&D as it was originally created. WotC and others have tried to create their trademarked versions of this, but the Jason and the Argonauts, Hansel & Gretel, etc. are beyond...

Posts with pages and pages of replies, especially if it’s rehashing the same arguments from previous long threads.

My friends and I played once for about 40 minutes, once. That was too long.

I had to look up sealioning. Basically trolling by repetitive questioning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Well, it’s an email campaign, and the PC’s are talking freely as I mention the server hanging around, bringing them stuff, etc. Whoever is likely to get a wealth of intel, though so far it’s political rather than economic. Working for the Mouqollad Consortium who will use the info for profit...

And I thought you were the one person on the internet who wasn’t here for that. Never meet your heroes.

I haven’t done anything about the Circle of Eight, but in the background, things are happening in the Hold of Sea Princes. My HSP is split between: Scarlet Brotherhood forces who hold the coast and islands - but lost the HSP colonies of Cauldron (Shackled City adventure path) and Sasserine...

Different countries use different formal terms for this. In the US, “r” was the formal, respectful, preferred, and correct term for decades. E.g, ARC, a major organization helping people with this disability, had “R” meaning what you think it means. But it was nevertheless used as an insult...

Ooh, yes, vampires could make sense. A future adventure (two out) I have in mind is with vampires. So, which spy works for the Knights of the Watch versus which for the vampires? Maybe the more obvious Halfling is counterintelligence, and the server works for the vampires - and maybe also for...

I looked it up, and Lassie had many seasons on American TV. Not all her boys were called Timmy. But Timmy is the iconic name. Also, Timmy never fell down a well, but the actor who played Timmy titled his autobiography “Timmy Fell Down the Well” because it was such a prevalent pre-internet meme.

Last night in my email campaign, a separated lone PC trying to find new recruits asked a barbarian in a pub to trade war stories. Her reply: “I’m not a bard!” I described her as large, loud, eating large amounts of chicken and beer, and wearing leather armor and furs. Seems to me to paint a...

I’ve decided the inn the PC’s are going to stay at has Spy v. Spy drama for the PC’s to discover or perhaps be victims of. The spies are operating independently and may or may not have discovered each other’s work. They may be opposite goals or just different. The inn is in Thornward, Bissel...

That’s one of many ways Darlene’s drawing is better.

I like Darlene's drawing better in every way.