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My current setting is a mash of ancient world and medieval stuff (as fits D&D). As the central setting location is a Republic that arose after many years of chaos after the fall of a conquering foreign empire, I have taken events and cultural ideas from Ancient Athens, early Roman republic...

Okay, so I completely rewrote the "Welcome to Makrinos" section and removed almost all the detailed info that got us in the weeds with the republic's various elected offices and blah blah blah. Instead, I took advice from @Swarmkeeper and another friend not on ENworld and went with an approach...

"Well, I've never heard of it. . ." is not the rock solid evidence for something not existing that you think it is, buddy.

I find it useful if written well and concisely. 3 to 5 sentences at most and then other details listed to be shared if the party looks closer/investigates/interacts.

Turns out I do have that issue! (I need to save it along with the issue of Dragon I got a letter printed in). Coincidentally, it is also the issue where Perkins left being editor of Dungeon to take over WotC’s two Star Wars mags they printed at the time

Oh wow! I have been looking for this letter for years! I couldn’t remember when I wrote it and thought it was at the end of 2E, not a year into 3e! Thanks for sharing it, @Echohawk! 🤷🏾‍♂️

I still run a 5E conversion of his "A Wizard's Fate" (from Dungeon Magazine #37 (September/October 1992)) by him regularly when I do DM for pay stuff for Dungeons & Drafts - Pittsburgh.

I remember him as just a prolific submitter of adventures to Dungeon Mag. He wrote some good ones (even though for reasons I can't remember any more I wasn't a fan at the time). I once signed a letter to Dungeon as "The Anti-Perkins" but I can no longer remember which issue it was printed in (I...

Foremost, I have adopted the 2024 Exhaustion rules. A handful of spells that are just a little clearer now (can't even remember which ones) I am adopting Weapon Mastery for my VF5E project, except as the end point of a system of proficiency that still uses slots similar to 2E and greatly reduces...

It would have to be a fairly sizable and valuable collection to insure separately. I have a ton of books and minis but my homeowners insurance should cover some of that should the worst happen.

I’m not playing 2024 DnD but I could tell you what I’m taking from it for my homebrew ruleset. But maybe “what rules at you taking from 2024 D&D for your 2014 or other 5e games?” would be better as its own thread.

I was wondering if it was something like that. I have the original Ravenloft module and have skimmed it, but have never read CoS and I only played two sessions of a CoS campaign before having to drop out and that never came up. Thanks.

Okay, take two. . . I am not caught up yet but I had a question about this scene where the party first meets Strahd. So they leave at the crack of dawn. . . 30 to 40 minutes later (so very early morning after dawn) they run into Strahd? He can stand out in the daylight?

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I've been into anchovies, banana peppers, pineapple and red onion on my pizza lately.

Some people really seem to believe that requiring buy-in for an RPG or campaign conceit is some kind of design flaw.

Maybe the rulership is a Triumverate? Like a merfolk, a sea elf, and a koalinth. Or different representations after each seat's individual succession war.

Early and often.

I think the degree to which alignment has a mechanical aspect should depend on the setting not the generic edition ruleset. I happen to like some mechanical heft to alignment, so I reintroduced it on the Law/Chaos axis in my Vanity Frankenstein 5E homebrew project, borrowing my take from the...