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This is an excellent question. Let's ask the 1E PHB, page 101, under the heading "Encumbrance"... with emphasis mine As others have pointed out, item "encumbrance" in 1e was never intended to be strictly equal to its "weight" - and 1e went out of its way to point this out! I imagine it's easy...

I feel like I most often fudge in my storytelling... if a player offhandedly mentions a cool idea like "I bet this BBEG was this other BBEG's apprentice" ... even if no prior relationship between the two existed in my head canon, BOOM! there is now a mentor-apprentice relationship. Basically, if...

It depends. WHEN PLAYING WITH MOST PLAYERS: When a die roll is being used to resolve a check where success/failure will be obvious (e.g., attack roll, saving throw), I roll in the open. When a die roll is being used to resolve a check where success/failure will NOT be obvious (e.g., Search or...

It costs money to run a website, and I can’t imagine with all the traffic ENWorld gets it is cheap. I don’t begrudge the ads, as Morrus puts in plenty of sweat equity to make this place worth visiting. I am NOT accusing you of this, but I should note I often see users complaining about site...

(Sigh) The one collectible that got away that I wish I'd held onto came into my possession when I sold my copy of DA4 0 The Duchy of Ten on eBay to a "Dave Arneson." I was a college student and needed to pay for gas money, so I cashed the check. About a week later I realized, "wait a minute...

Curses to the dragon! Curses to Slag!

Where’s “once per character?” I mean, unless you are playing BECMI and ascend to immortality your characters DO die eventually, right? :)

I have to agree. The chaos gremlin in me loves this scene so much (and thinks it is exactly what some of my past parties would have done).

Then there are all the things my wife rolls her eyes at… ]

Some a capella offerings… both light hearted and more serious. And one not a capella…

Started around 1983 with BECMI and 1e. Transitioned to 2E for AD&D but still played a lot of BECMI. Super excited when 3E came out. Got away from 3E in about 2005 or 2006 due to fatherhood. Missed 4E entirely due to being a dad. Came back to 5E thanks to my kids taking an interest in it...

Probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway... Use what you want from my stuff, ignore what you don't, and if I published stuff you think is stupid... you're probably right. I'm not offended if you think some of my stuff is bad. Use what you find useful, ignore the rest.

And this is what I wanted to avoid, which is why I made my stuff free. I have several out-of-print physical books (mostly not RPGs) that were very hard to acquire and I think copyright orphaning is a very real problem in the world and we need to figure out how to fix that problem in copyright...

Thank you, Alzrius! It's been a while but I think my motivation there was a combination of wanting to figure out how to get around the problem of "multiclassing dips for just one ability" but also to give those that publishers that designed Prestige Classes some guardrails to make sure that they...

SPOILERS AHEAD (which I really shouldn't have to do for a 30+ year old work but whatever) I would say the radiance is tangentially related - in that the seminal event that caused the Shadow Elves to flee underground (the Great Rain of Fire) has a common source with the Radiance. I would also...

Seconded. I feel like newer gamers want a VTT that calculates bonuses from all their status effects, keeps their character sheets, tracks all their rolls for them, etc. I tried Foundry and Fantasy Grounds and found it was all way too much bother. I want about a 5 minute setup (upload maps...

Random thought: If your library is still of the variety that has some physical books (and not just computers and e-readers), you might consider making a donation of a Players' Handbook or two (perhaps ask them to keep it in the "Reference Section" where it can't be checked out so they don't get...

If I may self plug a tiny bit, take a look at The Enchiridion of Treasures and Objects D’art (link: DriveThruRPG ) - was designed for 3e, has a low magic system based on the material used to make stuff, an alternate economic system, and was made free for all once sales petered off 20 ish years...

No, you have Gish galloping right. It also usually includes a bad faith element of ”even though you refuted the vast majority of my points, you missed refuting a single point out of all of them thus clearly my argument is valid”

I would generally say the “fundamental forces” are those for which we have to assume “this is a basic rule of how things interact” instead of “this is a rule that emerges from application of other rules.” As mentioned above, the electromagnetic and gravitational forces are generally responsible...