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Obviously, “DaVinci’s Code meets Gangs of New York” means that every character in the new adventure path will have both Tom Hanks’ hair from the first and Daniel Day Lewis’ facial hair from the latter. The art will be like an accident from which one can’t look away...

While a small thing, I liked the original version where Skills were by default not set to particular Attributes (and DMs were given more latitude to create new skills or let players find odd corner cases to use skills with various attributes). It seems like a small thing, but it (alongside the...

As usual, I would love it if the actual statistics involved here were linked in some fashion, since newspapers do a poor job of handling such matters (the only journalists who ever seem to see a stats class in college are those writing about electoral polling...at least some of them). There are...

I would build psionics for Dark Sun, that being the setting still built upon sword & sorcery conventions (albeit channeled through 90s angst) rather than try to build out a system for 5e that works in every setting and ends up being either flavorless or too alien — as well as either too powerful...

To add one point to my earlier thought, the changing idea of the multiverse in D&D from 2nd Edition on reflects the homogenization of both fantasy and the game world. Even looking only at the upcoming Tome of Foes (to say nothing of Planescape and Spelljammer), we see that the multiverse in D&D...

I wonder how much the appeal of psionics in D&D is generational, given the kitbashed nature of sources that played into the early game, as well as the diversity of “fantasy” (still drawing heavily from sword & sorcery stories that featured early-20th century psychic pseudoscience as it’s magic)...

That could actually work, especially if they were designed to work as sourcebooks for urban and megadungeon campaigns, respectively (keyed to elements of interaction and exploration pillars) beyond just the adventures themselves. Imagine consequently having Waterdeep thus set up enough that it...

Seeing how central FR is to 5e, this is when we discover that Dark Sun is now being established as the post-apocalyptic Forgotten Realms, and the next big adventure is a time-traveling jaunt meant to save the Realms by preventing Athas from ever existing... ;)

This thread title sounds like something a teacher at a magic school would say to a failing student. I love it!

I...I have no idea who any of those people are. Can’t we just get Mearls and Crawford to lead a Q&A or something? Kids these days and their hippity hop...

Honestly, I wonder how much it’s the Games issue that Rabulias posits and how much it might be the various references to strength, constitution, healing, exhaustion, disease, poison, athletics, grappling etc. that appear throughout the text. It’s strangely easy to see how a bot that crawls...

But if we remember all that, how does it remain the Forgotten Realms?

I absolutely am NOT trying to Edition War here, but I note that the OP mentioned only D&D experience from 3e onwards. That strikes me as important to this question, because there are assumptions within the ruleset beyond the rules themselves, as well as matters of zeitgeist that inform how...

Moloch obsesses over the pants he’s lost rather than thinking of the pants he could gain elsewhere in the planes. What a pity he walks around in that diaper.

Elves stay in grad school for eighty years while dwarves crash on their parents’ couches for fifty. Humans meanwhile go out and get a job at eighteen.

It sounds like someone broke out their 2nd Edition AD&D books and looked at the Spell Spheres (technically a “1.5e” system, as it appeared in an earlier form in the Dragonlance Adventures HC), just using different names since TSR stuff that didn’t carry over into 3e isn’t SRD/OGL. THey even...

Eh, Dalamar is MY Dark Elf.

Unless the fey are just trying to trick us, and there actually ARE archfey in there...

I haven't played a video game in fifteen years, but I've got my fingers crossed now for GARY GYGAX'S VOCABULARY CHALLENGE!

First thing that comes to mind is the "Anvil of Time" from DUNGEON #86, a time-travel Dragonlance adventure written by Tracy Hickman with a dungeon that transforms and moves the characters through time. It's 3.0 but might offer some ideas (I think it's available in one of the Best of Dungeon...