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I have played halfling characters in every edition back starting with basic. When I started, I was much younger and smaller than the people I played with, so the draw to halfling was natural. I loved Tolkien and all fairy tales. Halflings filled that niche. So I have a very soft spot for...

What do I think WotC will do vs, What would I like WotC to do? I do not work for WotC and am not a telepath so ... 5.5E will keep Half-Orcs and Half-Elves. They will probably head up a section on mixed-race characters and how to achieve them with lineages. More options, no deletions. Formerly...

I started with Moldvay and after a summer of play at the local library picked up the PHB, MM, and DMG for 1E at Christmas and my birthday. All still have the Joy Department store stickers still on them. Later, I had to purchase my books in 'seedy comic book dens' that my mother was less than...

I think you're right, but I also think you can change the tone without completely decoupling for D&D with V/WP system. D&D is always going to feature a majority of combat, the rules are mostly about resolving combat, so a wound system needs to be minorly punishing or at least recoverable. We are...

I would love a fleshed-out Vitality/Wound points option. Mainly, it would open the door to more mechanics within bounded accuracy, like a spell casting system that used vitality to fuel powers and a fatigue system that was not so punishing. To ameliorate the impact on melee combatants perhaps an...

There was a great Halloween issue of Dragon (pre-Illithiad) #150 that was focused on Mind Flayer lore including a visit to a potential Mind Flayer 'homeworld' in 'The Sunset World'. It was a planet under a dying star cold and barren with the experiments of the Illithids eking out an existence...

Why would the Illithid want to extinguish such a wonderful supply of energy? The trick is converting the Sun's energy to something more amicable to the mauve skin persuasion. A lens/shield around the star to keep the energy harnessed for experimentation. Maybe have full light preserves for...

Ration fun like someone lost in the Sahara rations water, a few drips to make it last. Dry description and flat characterizations enable the fun to really stand out when it finally makes an appearance. One or two fun things per session with the remainder being a roll call like revelation of...

You know you're old when you are in the grocery store and the music is just playing all the right tunes.

As grognards begin to cross into the hereafter (not for a while I hope), Old School will become later and later. Old School is whenever you first learned the game. Particularly when rules were so dense, esoteric, and conflicting to new players. Old school D&D felt like an accomplishment to...

Anubis 52 Athena 51 Boccob 51 Lugh Lámfada 48+1=49 Odin 51 Olladra 50 Sehanine 43 Selune 51 Takhisis 43-2=41 Yondalla 51 We are almost to Lughnasad (Aug 1) cannot disrespect the god so close to his holiday. Tiamat by another name is still a monster, not a deity.

Runehammer 5E Hardcore Mode

Can we just focus down the Platinum Dragon? Leave him to rot on Krynn.

Avandra 11 Bahamut 13 Corellon 13-2=11 Erathis 11 Moradin 8 Raven Queen 13+1=14 Sehanine 11 Corellon is a cool god, but he is not unique to the Dawn War. Raven Queen is the best.

Who could argue with the stunning brilliance of Gleemax?

RPG design and production is a small incestuous pool. A blacklist doesn't have to be anything formal just people who have worked together asking for opinions. I doubt there is a list that is disseminated but almost everyone existing in RPGs has worked or knows of others in the biz.

I am not surprised there is a blacklist for WotC. I am sure it is unspoken or at least, 'unwritten', but there are definitely people WotC, a division of Hasbro, would not want to be associated with in any context. Unfortunately, there are also people who have spoken out about WotC practices that...

Yellow Musk Creepers beget Yellow Musk Zombies. Great Old Master Neogi spawn multiple Neogi. Lycanthropy can turn victims into lycanthropes.

But do you use Roman monsters in your campaigns or exclude them? :ROFLMAO:

I was thinking about orcs and their evolution throughout D&D. We went from pig faced to neanderthalesque. From this: To this: Why didn't we go to this: I know Warhammer greenskins and Warcraft pushed D&D along the bestial man path, but boar men are just so much more fun and are not...