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In 2e: Roll a d10 for each side. 1, 2, or 3 means they're surprised. (If both are surprised, it cancels out.) The unsurprised side gets one round of attacks with melee, missile, or magic items, but can't cast spells. Surprised characters lose any AC bonus from Dex and attacks against them are at...

Sure, anyone can be wrong, and I didn't say otherwise, but this is a thoroughly researched paper produced by career public servants with expertise in copyright, after extensive public comment. "They might be wrong" is too trivial an argument to dismiss it. And even if they are wrong, those...

Yes, and the US Copyright Office agrees. Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability (footnotes removed) See also Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence

I have never minded x/day (or long rest) abilities, but I do think it's perhaps more interesting to make them unlimited with a cost or a risk for overdoing it. What I do mind is when they make the tracking more complicated: Barbarians get x rages/long rest, but get 1 back on a short rest, and at...

This reminds me: depending on the edition, Reincarnation might the only option for reviving elves. OD&D Raise Dead works "with men, elves, and dwarves only", thus excluding halflings. 1e Raise Dead says "When the cleric casts a raise dead spell, he or she can restore life to a dwarf, gnome...

It's right there in the middle of the Neutrality column. What kind of animal do you reincarnate into? ¯\(ツ)/¯

Going by owlbear illustrations in the Monster Manuals (or edition equivalent), most have serrated beaks. clearly serrated: 1e, 2e compendum, 4e essentials, 5.0e, 5.5e unclear, maybe serrated: 2e MM, 4e single tomial tooth and notch: 3.Xe probably no tomia: OD&D OD&D Greyhawk Supplement -...

I don't think you need to entirely eliminate it. Just eliminate the dipping. Either you're a rogue/cleric hybrid from the start and keep them at equal levels, or you're a 7th level rogue who decides to become a cleric, and you have to spend your next 3 (or so) levels on that before you can...

When I read "Using...Warlock to Remake Bard", my first thought was the Bard selling their soul to the devil in exchange for guitar skills, like Tommy and/or Robert Johnson.

I don't think there's a reasonable way to get what you want without being location- (or at least climate type–) specific. But if you have a set of Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter charts for a given location, I think you could tolerably interpolate between seasons without too much extra complication...

Van Helsing was actually the inspiration for the D&D Cleric. Specifically, Bishop Carr, the first Cleric in Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign was based on Peter Cushing's Van Helsing in the Hammer Horror Dracula films.

I think there's a lot of interesting ground between magic mega mart and no commerce in magic items at all! In the real world, people sell Picassos, but you won't find one at Target. (You might find a print as a poster or something, but that is not the same.) If you want to buy Garçon à la Pipe...

2E Skills and powers divided all ability scores into 2 sub-abilities: Strength - Stamina and Muscle Dexterity - Aim and Balance Constitution - Health and Fitness Intelligence - Knowledge and Reason Wisdom - Intuition and Willpower Charisma - Leadership and Appearance

If you're using the Player Character expenses on DMG p. 25 (100 GP per level per month), you might assume that includes the cost of lodging. If not, use the 2E PHB or the following prices from T1 The Village of Hommlet: Private suite: 5 gp/night, breakfast furnished Private room w/ extra table...

The 5E equivalent of q.v. is Capitalizing. e.g., "Gain the following traits from the Core Fighter Traits table: Hit Point Die, proficiency with Martial weapons, and training with Light and Medium armor and Shields." "You learn two Cleric cantrips of your choice (see the Cleric class's section...

Granny Weatherwax is canonically Good, but not Nice. Granny Weatherwax was supposed to be a wicked witch, but was forced to be the good one to balance out her sister. And she resents it. "The trouble is, you see, that if you do know Right from Wrong, you can't choose Wrong. You just can't do...

No, what I was saying is a combination of the literal meaning of whitewash and the metaphorical one: to gloss over or cover up. Making your sword appear like a shiny new +1 sword, when it's actually a plain old sword.

This is a myth. Glass does not flow. The reason the panels are thicker at the bottom is that medieval techniques for making glass made them a bit uneven. They placed the glass with the thicker part at the bottom because that's more stable than putting the thicker part at the top. Anyway, I...