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About attacking or threatening or destroying the PC’s home base … it’s interesting. I think campaigns benefit from having a Shire, the good place to fight for. Tolkien has the Shire threatened and overrun offscreen in LotR, but let the good guys clean things up quickly at the end. And in The...

I appreciate that it is named after a Seattle neighborhood, with a popular park. My wife lived there long ago. Lots of other Seattle area references in that era from WotC and Paizo.

For one group, it’s the Keep on the Borderlands, mostly Return to version, modified by 29 years of actual play with multiple groups. A PC is lord of it, another PC is engaged to the neighboring lord, another PC married the tavern wench, a retired PC owns the tavern, a retired PC leads the...

I think both appeared in adventures, though it might have more like a description of a character than the mechanics from Dragon.

That’s why you can choose more than one, as most people did.

From a topic arising orthogonally, are folks here more often DM’s, players, or what. Choose as many answers as fit, and feel free to add more.

Anti-paladins and witches come up often as well. Maybe the purge of anything “naughty” in 2e was already happening for UA?

For what it’s worth, when I played Pathfinder Kingmaker on Xbox, I was intrigued to found a town and get it running, and then a second village in my little barony. But when the game insisted on giving me time-sensitive adventure quests after that, I was like “can’t I assign this to lower level...

Gnomes aren’t cool.😎

Good point! In reading all of Dungeon magazine’s print run (1986-2007), I’ve noticed half ogres multiple times. The first time I thought it was a unique fluke, as I hadn’t heard of it at the time, but clearly it was an accepted thing for some AD&D groups, not just a one off, as it was spread...

Same for my groups. The parts we used were the Nonhuman Deities, rarely the polearms, rarely the birth and class tables, and some of the new spells and magic items. I liked the cleric spell Ceremony, which made it to 5e 2014 as a Ritual, IIRC. It was cool that it aligned with the D&D Animated...

1. No. 2. No. Bastion is a concept that's new to me. 3. In general, when I've done city, manor, castle, etc. building, I've used a mix of just "thinking it up", published sources, Harn Manor, and DMG stuff, especially AD&D 1e DMG. Why am I answering then? I played Pathfinder Kingmaker on Xbox...

Well, you could do a poll, but I suspect EnWorld is majority DM's? Or at least a higher DM percentage than the 20% that's supposedly bog standard (1 GM + 4 players). Because ENworld requires a higher degree of interest in D&D than is necessarily the case among players.

That’s me! :) Though more often the 3.5 DM (two campaigns on email) then 3.5e player (one rarely played campaign over Zoom). I’m also a player in a 5e 2024 game (played 8-10 times a year over Discord + Roll20). :) I find 3e & the first few years of PF1 largely 3.5e compatible, but I’ll...

Thanks. I’m getting the Shattered Obelisk, just to see what the fuss is about.

3e & 3.5e are mostly the same thing, from my POV.

An interesting part is a lot of the authors were amateurs, and it’s how a lot of famous D&D folks got their starts - Wolfgang Baur, Chris Perkins, etc. The variety of topics and styles feels more wide open and experimental than now. And most have homebrew settings as well. I DM 3.5e, so that...

It’s in Excel, so it’s a bit like a database. You can filter or search on lots of things. I figure it’ll be 12-18 months before I’m done, as I’ve been working on it since 2020, with 128/150 issues done. Once it’s done, I guess I’ll post it here, and perhaps other places.

I’m writing reviews for every adventure in Dungeon, for myself but I’ll eventually release it. 22 issues left. I rate them like this: 1 No 1.5 No but Plunder (bad adventure but at least 1 good idea, NPC, location, etc. that could be recycled from it - I add Plunder to other reviews without...

I was in Canada and doing digital detox (mostly) last week. The US (my home) & Canada feel more different than they did in the Before Times.