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I don't think I've ever seen anyone suggest that it is bad to "want actual bad guys to fight," so that's not a very accurate representation of what folks are saying. I have never personally heard of a game with no bad guys, though many (like mine) operate on the assumption that evil is a point...

Just purchased this off DDB; it releases in two days. The digital bundle is just $12.74 right now.

Let me ask a question: what is gained in these instances by using alignment? Why not just focus on desires, choices and actions? How does putting a label on those ("That was a lawful evil act") add anything but potential disagreement to the situation? For example, say the player character...

Actually, pretty much exactly this. Currently running White Plume Mountain, but aside from the map almost the entire text has been radically altered to fit into my campaign. Every single trap, puzzle, and encounter is different, all the loot is different, the story bears no resemblance to the...

Homebrew for the main story, but I sometimes work in pre-made adventures and modify as needed.

It's metagame knowledge if you use it for your character when it is unlikely that they would know it. Which matters to some folks, including me. Particularly me, since as a forever DM, on the rare chances when I actually get to play, I know most every monster, magic item, spell and so on but...

Not necessarily a bad thing in 1e - then you have a back-up ready for when the outermost later gets blown up!

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (Carl Sagan). This seems more on the order of "promising evidence." So...not a bombshell. I remain hopeful.

One thing that you really notice when traveling around Europe is how much more chill they are about nudity and sexual content, and strict about violent content - I particularly noticed that in Scandinavian countries. Seems healthier than here in North America, where depictions of gruesome...

Well, you can't really prove a hypothetical, but what the data does show is that, again per Slaying the Dragon, WotC's review of the TSR accounts showed that almost all those setting books, including Dark Sun, were not profitable and never could have been profitable because of their cost and...

Seems like a fun idea - why not? The books treat the two as quite distinct, but who cares about that? If your idea works for your campaign concept, then that's all that matters, and as they are both considered draconic species (especially these days) it's not like it's a huge stretch.

“The industry” is Wizkids. No one else does pre-painted miniatures on a meaningful scale. Your point is accurate, though I feel most collectors know that what they are actually getting falls well short of the illustrations.

I’ve stopped supporting Kickstarters, period. It’s too unpredictable, and like many Canadians I’m now avoiding buying anything from America as much as possible, for both practical and, frankly, patriotic reasons.

This is a huge sore spot as my best friend and I were FINALLY all booked for Gen Con, which has been on our list for more than forty years.We had an awesome hotel, Critical Role tickets, the works. And then a certain person decided to make the US a very unwelcoming destination for Canadians, so...

Yeah, I couldn't help but kind of root for Deidre even though she is so awful, because Gough is that good.

So I finally got around to watching the second half of the season. To recap, I love season 1 and think it is arguably the best show in the entire franchise, including the films. I was generally underwhelmed by the first half of season 2, though it improved a lot after what felt (to me) like a...

I would like to see the current rules become less complicated, not more...

TSR's attempt to publish a bunch of different versions of D&D for different settings is ultimately what killed the company, though, as reported in Slaying the Dragon, per WotC's forensic accounting. I agree with your point, but I think different settings are best handled by 3PP, as they mostly...

The current MM includes this disclaimer: I don't bother with alignment, so I pick my dragons according to whatever miniature I really want to use. If that means a villainous gold dragon, then so be it!

Well, they're fantasy creatures with specific abilities, so it's a useful way to know whether you are grabbing the stat blcok for one with lightning versus one with fire. Therefore, if the game didn't organize them by colour it would probably just organize them by breath weapon, which seems a...