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I still instinctively arrange them that way! It makes for some confusion when I’m reading arrays... ;)

Suspecting that Cerilia is unlikely to be reintroduced as a setting, I reintroduce my suggestion of doing Birthright as the next of the WotC D&D board games, having a “Domain Board” with shifting resources and other control elements along the line of both the classic setting and various conquest...

Vymair’s take is also what I’ve read from every early Original Campaign player, as well as my own experience talking to older players as a guy introduced to late-1st edition as a child in the 80s. Both mechanically and stemming from its wargaming roots, the original game was very heavily built...

I’ll have to look for it. I remember hearing about one, but never got around to tracking it down.

I’m curious what the reasoning behind this thought is, given how the designers have commented on their inspiration for the Samurai class. It’s meant to be the classic film samurai, the Kurosawa figure who breaks out in duels and key fights and (as seen at high levels) holds cinematic last...

Insufferable cant?

For the most part, the list of items with attunement requirements seem to me to be those with ongoing effects (versus those that have specific daily charges or standard +X weapons and armor). In a way, attunement is like concentration in that it acts to limit the number of magical effects active...

After the recent Supreme Court decision on sports betting, I’m looking forward to seeing who starts trying to make money laying bets on Critical Role games. Wait...did I just give away a million dollar idea?

So D&D becomes vaguely popular but still confusing for two weeks every few years?

I would love to see Birthright revived as another of the D&D “board games,” perhaps using two boards (a domain board and an adventure board) with an option to continue the same Domain Game across multiple games of the Adventure Game.

I’m not entirely certain what levels have to do with this, besides the OP having bad experience with D&D (or with a particular DM) that he hasn’t had with points-based-advancement systems. As others note, the “problem” he’s describing would only be exacerbated there. That’s because this isn’t...

With a classic-style megadungeon and urban adventure that can be rerun with multiple villains and additional sequences, my suggestion is to go old school and have players set up multiple characters around the home base of the inn the party apparently gets to manage. That way, different...

It strikes me that the problem here, and in most of these discussions, is that RPGS over forty-plus years have interacted with multiple generations of players and multiple ge erations of gaming zeitgeist (both on the table and off it), so different people have vastly divergent ideas over where...

I know that this is a resurrected playtest thread about a since-altered spell, but I have a general thought on the question asked: Spare The Dying isn’t a problem, it’s a solution. What I mean by that is that there’s the debate over what level of healing to have in different campaigns and how...

Has there been any news regarding Mass Combat rules? We’ve heard discussion on progression (or lack thereof) of the Mystic/Psion and Artificer rules that would tie into any Dark Sun or Eberron product, and we’ve seen the bits of astral and planar material coming out in books that could support a...

(Acererak turned out to just be Old Man Jenkins in a mask! He was using the Death Curse to scare all the tourists off Chult and get the treasure for himself — and it would have worked if it wasn’t for you pesky adventurers and your animal companion!)

I’ve posited before that a logical book to create is an Gazeteer of the Multiverse (my first thought, given the FR character titles, would actually be “Elminster’s Gazeteer of the Multiverse,” with snippets of letters to and from his Wizards Three fellows included throughout the book). It would...

Something to keep in mind is who you’re asking. Boards such as this are generally going to prefer the crunchier, more optimizable classes like the Battle Master, simply because online discussion of gaming has always been a draw for mechanics — logically because you can discuss but can’t compare...

I think the Spelljammer idea is an apt one, in that I could see an expansion into the planes, especially through the Astral. MToF has Giff, Githyanki, Tu’narath, and other astral threats, so I could imagine an adventure that casts off from Skullport into the Astral Plane and includes tools on...

The obvious answer to “no photos allowed”? Get a courtroom sketch artist to tag along and depict things! Count me as someone else interested in the complexity question. I got away from 3.5 and never lasted more than a few sessions of Pathfinder simply because there are so many metaphorical...