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I'm sure many of you know this, but for some older editions, specifically 2e and earlier (I don't have a ton of experience in 3 or 4), magic items were what gave a class more definition and ability as the character leveled. The 2e Fighter, aside from weapon specialization, gets basically...

Medieval Geopolitics v Renaissance v Dragons? I like Vanilla Bean (Haagen Diaz), Vanilla (Breyer’s), and soft serve vanilla. They all taste different to me…

I'm running a campaign in Greyhawk after over a year running in FR. Its a breath of fresh air for us, where no one really knows as much about Greyhawk compared to FR (due to all the focus on FR, novels, etc.). Its also mostly a blank slate. I can run it straight from the original core box...

Isn't that what clerics were for? Get into that fight at first level, take a hit or two, get a cure light from the cleric. Job's a good'un. Our group is playing in a DnD Basic game right now, and we have yet to use a 5 minute work day, even though the Elf only has one spell, and we have no...

Mine wouldn't even give it a go. And in my game, there was a lot of cross country and ship based travel, so it wasn't like there wasn't a lot of downtime that could have counted (if I was going to go for pacing, rather than RAW). The problem in my game was the NOVA, and I couldn't get to 6-8...

My players had all kinds of problems with using the Gritty Rests for obvious reasons (to them). The next game I run, I'm going to modify it more like AiME 5e, where a long rest can only be taken in a "safe" place where you are not keeping watch and/or sleeping on the floor. So, an Inn, a...

I don't want to derail the thread, but for you and @doctorbadwolf and any others: Its not so much that the game "broke", per se (probably a bit overdramatic on my part). It was more a combination of multiple small things: 1) Pacing: I wasn't running a 6-8 encounter day, the party was able to...

In my group we have one player who always has to "beat" the system, or "win" DND. Always optimized, moans when he doesn't get the magic item, builds combos to avoid ever taking damage, tries to out damage everyone, complains when his HP rolls are low, etc. Its an attitude that exists, but in...

And good footwear... I do about 4.5 miles per day, which I do in about 90 minutes walking. But that is the rate of this north american unladen geek listening to a podcast. I could probably go faster, but it would probably vary if I had to walk a full 20 miles from one place to another (some...

When I recently started a Greyhawk campaign (actually 2: one in 2e, and one with Beyond the Wall, in two separate areas of Oerth), I wanted to basically do the same: rein in the hundreds of Greyhawk deities and have a tightened Pantheon. Once I started into it, I found it was a lot of work to...

One of the things that is never really clear, either in history or in RPG books, specifically around worldbuilding is: how far apart should someone travel and expect to run into a village or town? I've variously seen "within a days walk", but what would that mean for realistic worldbuilding...

For this, at least, I would suggest one of two options (or maybe 3?): 1) Have a very brief outline of your suggested/ideal Pantheon, that you don't have to flesh out at all if no one engages with religion. 2) If someone engages with religion, then collaborate with them around what their religion...

Mercenary company who are hired by local lords/barons/whoever to do their dirty work or fight in their border wars. They could come up with a Company Name, Badge, and basically travel around looking for work. (I realize this is ultimately what adventuring parties do, but this would be at a...

In one of my campaigns, I toyed with using spell points that regenerated over time, passively. So if you had (just spitballing) 40 spell points, and used 10 of them in an encounter, then you might get back 2 points per hour no matter what you were doing. If you found an area saturated with...

What do you think the impact of this would/could be as it applies to a god of death, or even a Pantheon? In DnD we have ready made healing, raise dead, resurrection and similar magics which do exactly that - allow the living to avoid death. Why would a god of death allow that? Particularly if...

Count me in as one who kept my Midnight hardback when I got rid of all the other 3.X dnd stuff years ago. I was actually working on a conversion of it, as I thought any update was dead in the water. Happy to see it making a return. Will be interested to see how they make it dark and gritty in...

Its probably fairly "boring and mundane" but I often use the following to add new spells to the available options: 1) The spellcaster's mentor (or circle, or wherever they learned their spells) has found evidence of new spells being used in a neighboring kingdom/land. They send the...

I use a combination of both (or have over the years). I find that coming up with my own bespoke campaign ends up being a lot more work for me than using an 'established' setting. I've had the most success running FR, but altering the timeline, or moving back in time before large events, or...

I don't think Storm King's Thunder is a good recommendation. It suffers from the same issues as Rime and Hoard, and most of WOTCs 5e adventure paths. There are either things unexplained, dead ends for no reason, random wandering around the whole western part of the realms for no real reason...

Make new ones. That way you can put whatever you want into it, plus the kitchen sink. Leave old ones alone, if you insist on re-releasing it, don’t change things about it, just update it to the new system.