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The proper sweep of history, the before times, the cataclysm, the lost years, and the urgency of the Dragon wars. Things actually happened that changed the world properly, and each era has its own flavor. As a contrast, The Forgotten Realms, despite the various hastily bolted on "Gods come to...

LOL, @Weiley31 both Matt Colville and Monte Cook right now are each both flattered and enraged at your confusion :)

Oh, and why do I dislike boxed sets...? because they end up crushed and held together with tape in far too few years.

Personally, I would rather have a single hardcover book, but we have to remember the original Spelljammer set was also in multiple parts. I just pulled out my Spelljammer boxed set from 1989, and it was $18 U.S. back then. Inside are 2 x 96 page flimsy softcover booklets with color covers and...

Roll20 is clunky old and slow, but does everything (not well, but does it). So it can fit somewhere in everyone's stack. We use it mostly for communal dice rolling sharing, and in some games folks have their character sheets there. We do voice on discord. When Roll20 freaked out the other...

Wow, thanks for dropping the knowledge on us too @Marandahir . Gotta kinda disagree with your last point though, I think your "Barbarian Wolf-Guy Wisdom Warrior Poet Fighter" is about as close to a definition of the Ranger class as you are likely to get.

Super fun guy! What a long stat block though when you multiclass those two.... One correction 1: Healing. Creature regains 18 (2d4+3) hit points. <-- you mean 8

What a fabulous article that will enrich the campaign worlds of those that read it. Of course the NPCs will do this. Bravo!

For as long as anyone can remember, Lucky Pig Village has kept a pig in a pen in the center of town. Snuffy, the current Lucky Pig, is fed well by the townsfolk, who believe his happiness will bring luck to everyone in the village. “I once had a terrible rash, rubbed Snuffy’s ear, and soon I...

I dunno if it's an intelligence difference or simply originating on a planet where everything evolved earlier. I think the fact that the Romulans left Vulcan, 1) Nearly 2000 years before the Star Trek series' time 2) after a planetary nuclear war, 3) in their interstellar space ships 4) to...

The only super-dumb thing is the growing distinction between spells and other (frequently identical) magical abilities. This distinction is an architectural weakness they are actively and eagerly building into the game at the moment, for no reason at all I can see. Anyone get the memo why WoTC...

I think Level Up looks like a monumental amount of work from brilliant folks, but do I need it? Dunno. I think folks were more hungry for player options two years ago when they work started on Level Up. Now with Tasha's already having dumped a bunch of new toys on the table, adding yet more PC...

or just "Whole Lotta Dragons", it's snappier.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just noting you're advancing the same "but these products are so different" argument that every entrenched product makes vs simpler to use competitor. Note sure if pretzels keep you from telling a rich, detailed story -- probably depends on the amount of the...

You don't need needy NPCs all the time, many magical PCs burn money. If one of your players is a wizard who likes to have access to a wide variety of magic, they can suck everyone in the party's gold dry all by themselves just copying spells. The Cleric on the other hand gets access to every...

The first German translation I had in my hands was in 2018, so maybe it was cleaned up somewhat by then. I have never seen the earlier edition stuff in German, but I was initially surprised how few terms were carried over from English. Maybe because Ulisses was attuned to German RPG terms, they...

I am a transplant to Germany, and not an old timer, but I see as roughly as much D&D being played here as DSA (in Berlin at least). I think the biggest difference in from the U.S. may just be there is no clear "majority" system in Germany anymore. DSA, D&D and everything else each seem about a...

Samurai Fighter Level 15: Rapid Strike XGE p31 Starting at 15th level, you learn to trade accuracy for swift strikes. If you take the Attack action on your turn and have advantage on an attack roll against one of the targets, you can forgo the advantage for that roll to make an additional weapon...

The Knowledge Cleric's Channel Divinity to become proficient in any skill is really nice.

This is probably ultimately true, but what's cool about hacking an existing game that you know really well is that you have a good "feel" for what you want to change and how it might alter the dynamics. 5E is also a well known game that you can get a lot of opinionated feedback on :). It's the...