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I’d like to see Drizz’t go full drow on Elminster! :p

Magic items. I don’t allow multiclassing in my game, so that’s not an issue. I nerf or ban a number of feats and I'm stingy with permanent magic items, but the latter have been a core of D&D since day one.

About 60%. 43% of the world’s population is bilingual, according to the Journal of Neurolinguistics, meaning almost half of all people utilize two languages daily. 40% of the world’s population is monolingual, using just one language. 17% of the world’s population is multilingual, or fluent in...

Definitely not obligated. I rarely throw out adventure names, rather I ask if they are interested in the specific theme. This is mainly because of my habit of messing about the published material and I wouldn't want the players to believe they are playing an out of the box version.

As a player, I always track arrows/bolts/bullets. As a DM, I expect the players to do so, although I don't police it tightly except when they are not going to be in a town for a period of time. But I do remind them before they head out.

Steve posted that the board software was being updated a couple of days ago. Once that happened I could not log on, although I could view the boards He then said there was an issue with logging on for most/all users, and he would be trying implement a fix over the weekend.

My house rule for Tiny Hut is to have it conjure an actual tiny hut: It appears to be a normal log cabin, (15’ x 15’ x 10’ walls) with a peaked roof, a single door, and shutters on every wall. The doors and shutters are equipped with metal bars, but no other locks. The hut is free of any...

All the players are sitting in their own homes and we play via the Roll20 VTT. We started doing this when COVID hit and we decided to stick with it because it far easier than commuting to a single location.

I expect to stick with 5E exclusively. There hasn't been anything I've heard from the new rules that is worth adding; although that could change.

Other, somehow! My new campaign is starting this week, and the intention is to play weekly although I expect we will average biweekly over time. This game is played online with Roll20. I also play in about a dozen PBP games, which I review daily. Not sure how you want to count this as PBP is...

I consider D&D to be playable by kids, but not really a kids, game. I’ve never played with kids as an adult. As far as the cartoon goes as was mentioned previously it was definitely aimed at young kids not young adults.

Too old for it, I was 18 in 1983.

Pre-TCE, albeit with some bits and bobs from post-TCE (but no custom lineage, artificer, new backgrounds, etc), and a metric poop-tonne of house rules.

Cantrips first appeared in Unearthed Arcana, for AD&D 1E. I believe orisons (for clerics) were from 2E. As others have said, it’s the utility cantrips in 5E that ‘wreck’ some of the resource management/deal with the dark. I voted yes to the poll although I think it might be possible to keep...

1978 I believe. Human thief, name long forgotten. Wasn’t played after that very first session because he died in about 45 minutes from being rolled up!

I look forward to receiving my holiday-themed No Prize! I did not hear it until midday on Xmas, in the middle of my Xmas Day playlist. My one trip to the mall last week was without Wham!-incident and as an old retired recluse it was easy while at home.

When I play, I have no real concern if the DM rolls in the open or not. When I DM in-person, I tend to roll behind a screen because I like having a screen in front of me to cover maps and notes and rolling around the screen is a pain. At the moment, my games are on Roll20, I asked the...

I have no preference for PC death frequency. Voted every 2 to 3 levels as that seems what I expect on average. As an old-schooler, I don't provide plot armour to the PCs if they die, they die. They usually have access to raise dead and the like, but at a cost.

Yes. I started in 1978, probably one of the Basic games, I don’t recall as I didn’t own any of the books or even the dice. Quickly moved into AD&D and mostly stuck with the 1E core rules for man years, adding in bits and bobs from 2E. Sometime in the 90's I stopped playing as the group drifted...

For 40+ yers, I used a screen when I DM’d. Usually my old orange AD&D screen with the current edition rules paper-clipped on it. I only ran 2 or 3 sessions of 5E in-person before COVID struck. The next 35+ sessions of that game were online. I have not DM’d since, but should be taking the reins...