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I’m going to go even further and say it depends on the group. In a group of long-time role players (such as my regular groups) a new player would probably get about six months (for us that’s about 12 sessions) to get at least the basics down of attack rolls, damage rolls, saving throws, the most...

Why do we need a 6th edition? Because I, too, wish to see the world burn. MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I’d forgotten about that, but yes, it was!

This is why I’ve run plenty of 5e games with 2e and 3e material. My favorite FR game I ran was a 5e game from a couple of years ago set in DR1372 and using all of the 3e FR campaign guide material for story, because I detested the state in which the 4e story had left the Realms. I could...

So much of this reminds me of that episode of the Good Place where in short unless everything you do is carefully researched and you are diligent in following every issue no matter how small, you will tick someone off. Until the issue broke, it was the first I had heard of ANY of this in any...

Maybe it's the era I was first exposed to D&D, but my favorite, hands down, has always been Larry Elmore and Clyde Caldwell's art (With some Jeff Dee thrown in for that "D&D 80s superhero" aesthetic). Elmore, cheesecake or not, defined D&D for me (my apologies to the Trampier, Diesel, and...

For me, the shared experience was an awesome element that I missed from 1e that 2e did lose. Bringing up things like the Slavelords, the Giant campaign, the D1/D2/Q1 modules, gave me an immediate connection with other gamers, something we loved to compare and contrast with one another, not...

I remember reading an article at the time, and I think someone commented that to them it was yet another case of the natural extension of taking living in a D&D universe to its logical conclusion. In a world where Purple Worms, Remorhazes, Giant Frogs, behirs, tyrannosaurs, tendriculoses, Giant...

Thanks, Russ! I just snagged it myself. I’ve been curious about it for a while now.

@Morrus, wasn't Lone Wolf the company you had the “Army Builder” kerfuffle with several years back? Great developers, but their business savvy sometimes wasn’t, well, very savvy...

If you’re on the business end, there really isn’t... ;)

Ah Dice! Sweet Sirens of Fickle Fate! By the Hoary Head of Zocchi, do they vex me (and thee) so!

You see me now a veteran of a thousand Franchise wars I've been asking ‘where’s the beef’ so long Amid the Limbo of Fast Food Stores. And I'm fresh enough to look at And too frozen cold to see All the grease that’s on the inside I'm not sure that there's anything left healthy

It’s from TSR module I11, called Needle.

In our group’s Hell’s Rebels PF campaign from a few years ago, my character (an Oracle of the god of freedom), due to having survived the campaign almost through all six books and having been the mouthpiece and demagogue at key moments, basically became the martyr and rallying cry around which...

does DNDBeyond have some sort of exclusivity deal with WotC or something? Not sure, as I know Fantasy Grounds and Roll20 also have character managers. If not, Hero Lab really missed the boat with them for that. All they have is OGL material support, with some unofficial community modules (fan...

For me at this point, arguing about the differences is like arguing the differences between the colors of mahogany, wine, and merlot, and saying your favorite is demonstrably better. It surprises me still how few people point out the similarities between 5e and other games like PF2.

I don’t know why, but every time I read that quote, I could be in an empty room in the dead of night with a 100-degree fever, and it would still make me want to do a fist-pump... 😀

With regard to premium or ‘luxury’ games, I’m fine with them. People like Monte aren’t selling bread or a life-sustaining drug - they’re selling a game - of which there are hundreds of choices. I can’t afford a Lexus, but I don’t need a Lexus in order to have a car. (Once you get into the issue...

To me, if a monster is common enough, such a thing SHOULD be known. Perhaps it’s not known everywhere - if, say, trolls are not common in Icewind Dale, it shouldn’t be widely known. Down on the edges of the Trollmoors, the person who DOESN’T know to use fire is probably not long for this world...