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Until the umber hulks show up.

I bought a second print run 5e PHB from the local Hastings (before they went out of business) that was bound with pages upside down and backwards. Or the cover was. At least they were in order. This was not an unexpected surprise, though. They had a bunch of them bound that way, and I really...

I don’t think I can agree with your assessment of these facts as conclussively excluding the presence of hobbits during the Second Age. In the first place, I think it’s reasonable to conclude that “the east” in this context means the Anduin Valley, whence came Sméagle. That was in the Third...

The most important thing to remember is that most of them carried comically large musical instruments with them. I think that means they’re all bards. Also, most of them didn’t bring weapons either, so that checks out.

If it is your assertion that hobbits did not exist at all during the second age, I find that extrordinarily unlikely, as all of the other peoples of Middle Earth came along in the first age or earlier. Even the spiders. What we can probably assume from their absence in the texts is that the...

The difference is that we know Rohan didn’t exist yet. But all we know about the hobbits during the second age is that no one knew about hobbits. At least no one writing histories, anyway.

I’d be more inclined to blame Howard for that. In Tolkien’s case, it’s just the natural byproduct of writing the linguistic history of immortal people.

Except for Eberron. And Dark Sun, of course.

I really liked the warlock (witch) who traded beauty for power. The character I made, Pretty Polly (think a halfling version of Tracy Ullman’s character in Robin Hood: Men in Tights), has since made her appearance in multiple campaigns with various builds, but none of them has ever captured the...

Briefly: First, do not stress about it! You do not have to be a perfect DM. You don’t even need to be a good one. No one starts out as a good DM. Making mistakes is part of the process of learning to be a good DM. Trying things out is part of the process. Not everything will work. Figure out...

Here’s a stripped-down character sheet I did a few years back. It’s great until higher levels.

This poll leaves off the most important part of any character sheet: a place to draw the character portrait (or just doodle instead of stacking dice).

As I recall, when Eric Noah retired his site (in 2001, probably?), everyone’s pre-existing account was automatically moved over to EN World. A few server crashes (and migrations) happened over the next few years, (ah, Cyberstreet! How unreliable your servers!), but the one in early 2002 is the...

The question, for me, is: How much O5e would I have to unlearn to run A5e? And the answer appears to be: A lot of little things that interact with each other. For which, I would personally find a comprehensive changelog between O5e and A5e immensely helpful. Because, frankly, I’m never going...

And even before that, when we were flocking to Eric Noah’s (the E. N. in EN World) 3rd edition news site while that edition was still in development.

If I were to do something like this, I would do it primarily through spells. Each deity would get a subclass and the abilities for each would be pilfered from the already-existing domain subclasses. Additionally, the base cleric class would no longer prepare spells beyond 1st level. Nor...

It’s not entirely unlikely that he was able to get ahold of some of the Power Broker’s super-serum at some point.

It isn’t a MacGuffin if it has a function* and the Device of Time Journeying presumably has a function, because: it’s in the name. * The whole point of a MacGuffin is that it could be replaced with any other thing and without changing the story. If the thing has a function within the story...