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Gotta stay away from "Oldies" radio stations then. When I lost my favorite local radio station to a new format, I retreated to the local Oldies station and I've heard more Bee Gees over the last decade than I did between about 1980 and 2010. But then that station's definition of Oldies is now...

Difficult question in some ways. The Player's Handbook is the first one I actually bought for myself and so that has a special place for me. Yet the Dungeon Master's Guide is the single most prominent book to tie together everything that is the 1e AD&D soup in ways that vary from brilliantly...

December 1st and my wife just Whamageddoned us. :rolleyes:

I don't think I would consider this a particularly conventional Christmas song - and that's in its favor. It's a fairly traditional pop love song with a Christmas theme as a wrapper. I grew up the son of a church organist - and I DETEST most traditional Christmas music because of overexposure...

I put my ear buds in and listen to podcasts to immunize myself.

Wow. You encounter it so often you could make a game out of trying to avoid it but ultimately are forced into it?

One thing's for sure - this site shows you that people approach D&D, RPGs, and the gaming community in general in VERY different ways. And some of them are completely delusional.

Playwright Tom Stoppard has died at 88. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/29/tom-stoppard-playwright-of-dazzling-wit-and-playful-erudition-dies-aged-88?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

At the next Gamehole Con, the place I most readily get to try new games, I want to try one or more of the Cypher System games, Vaeson, and maybe Savage Worlds. Otherwise, I hope we finish the Curse of Strahd campaign so my daughter can get the Cyberpunk campaign. And I'm going to still try to...

I think word order implies meaning and emphasis here. There's a difference between "no canonical dragonborn mercenaries in BG" vs "canonically no dragonborn mercenaries in BG". The former says there are none defined in present canonical sources vs the latter saying canonical sources say there...

That's the kicker - it actually implies very little - other than the fact that those character options are present in the setting. Present in what proportion or numbers? 🤷‍♂️ That's anybody's guess.

Well.... maybe various players have been devoted to a particular expression of Traveller and it's system, but all about the system as a whole? No. See below. As others have pointed out, Traveller has existed through several different systems - some closely related, some... not - from the LBBs...

Having read the d20 version of Traveller.... it wasn't horrible. Definitely got some things right. But the most important thing that was a weird departure was that the pre-game career system did produce characters of different levels. That didn't work too horribly in d20 Trav, and with bounded...

Interbreeding between different species in D&D doesn't have to work differently from real life at all for the two to still be termed different species. Organisms can be classified into different species even if they can successfully interbreed in a physical sense, but generally don't because of...

I think coming to session 0 with most of the character already built is a problem. Do you know it's going to be compatible with the outcome of the session 0 discussion? You may have wasted your time or, if you insist on forging ahead with the character, risk being a disruption to the campaign...

If dragons are so skewed that they're essentially off the table as far as being a reasonable challenge for PCs to take on, why stat them up at all? Just treat them as a force of nature or something that generates situations rather than actually serve as combat opponents. The fact is, a GM can...

I think as far as ENWorld's censors would see it, yes, you're using it right.

Why exactly do we believe being dwarven means something in Middle Earth? Because dwarves played notable roles in the foreground - they were protagonists/supporting protagonists for the main narrative - so the world-builder (in this case Tolkien) made sure we had some of that information...

Regarding Greyhawk, does a species need to have one of their kind be a head of state for them to have deep connections to the setting? Do they need to be the majority or plurality population of a country to have a deep connection? How much detail does a setting need about a species for there to...

Well, hold on there. Halfling and gnome-ruled polities may not be around in the Greyhawk material, but that doesn't mean there's no room in Gygax's Greyhawk. If you look at the setting as published in the 1983 boxed set, when the various polities refer to demihumans in significant numbers to...