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Your mama is so fat... how fat is she? She's so fat that when she sits around the house, she forms a gravity lens.

I'm not surprised people feel strongly about it. It's an issue that breeds divisiveness because you're (effectively) telling them whether what they're doing is in Bin A or Bin B based on some criteria that they might agree with. I had to put up with that crap from coaches of other sports in high...

They're sportspeople, jocks, athletes, or whatever because both of those games are sports/athletics. Just as we'd call Traveller players, D&D players, Masks players, and Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing players RPGers.

That's pretty much what we'll have to deal with in Wardens. And I think it's OK for the general table to be run as 5e.2024 and have the players adjust themselves to that expectation if there's a difference. I told my players that the references I bring are 5e.2024 focused and those will be the...

Inhabiting a personality, but not necessarily a role. An individual doesn't need to have a distinct personality to be playing a role that has different interests and priorities than another role. And those could be expressed mechanically. So? Why exactly is this a bad thing - other than the...

I don't know that I see much value in trying to narrow the lane of what constitutes "role playing" with respect to playing these games. Whether procedural or interpretive character growth, or working with different play styles and expectations, the fact that a player is taking on an individual...

I ran the games as 5e.2024 as the scenarios were written and expected the players with non-D&D PCs to adjust. The Wardens, as organized play, expects the players to know how to play their characters. And nothing weird ever came up to the point I wanted to ask for a reference to review.

I think in the 4 sessions I ran of Wardens, I mainly had only one non-D&D character present per session (I believe one of the sessions had two). But I DID have a non-D&D variant in every session.

I picked up my stuff at will call earlier but I'll be at the con bright and early tomorrow morning!

Except most of the house rules make the game worse, not better. Monopoly is actually better without most common house rules than with them.

Read the DMG? Me?!? Pshaw!

Maybe you should look up potions in the DMG. There, it says: That's just as specific as the 1/2 pound weight of the potion of healing in the equipment list. Moreover, what's the smallest weight of anything in the adventuring equipment list? Yeah, it's 1/2 lb. So they basically don't want to...

You mean, like, through role playing quirky adventurers? I mean they could husband all of their resources for combat situations, but that wouldn't be the kind of RPG they want to play - or that we'd want to watch, frankly.

Yeah, it happens - and would it really be surprising that someone who is prominent or at least advanced in a field they're teaching might have also written about it? And if their work is current and reasonable quality scholarship on the topic, why not include it on the syllabus and delve into it...

Given that some of the encounter tables in the 1e DMG included encounters with druids, wizards, assassins, fighters, adventuring parties, etc, and no stats for such characters were present in the Monster Manual, how do you think those NPCs were generated?

Word from Alex Kammer at Gamehole Con is that Rob Wieland has passed. Expect more news on this site given his contributions.

I agree. A friend of mine worked for a young company that did the same thing - combined sick/vacation days and with the number too low (though it was more than 5, it wasn't by much). It's the kind of stupid decision that only young men regularly make when starting up a company or setting...

I'm not sure that one-off products, and that's what most of these are - even if a variety of one-offs, would constitute fracturing the audience as much as the 2e paradigm of having multiple settings with on-going support devoted to them. A one-off product may or may not appeal to individual...

The fact that a film about trying Nazis for war crimes has become a political land mine is a real indictment of certain things happening in the world.

Back in our 1e days, our DM set the campaign world on a global war course with an expansionist, demon-worshipping empire and its allies. We players had multiple PCs in that setting from a variety of loose adventurer groups in which we brought the PCs we wanted to play that adventure - your basic...