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Some friends and I are finally giving into the curiosity and will be trying out D&D 5e. I've heard good things about the Starter Set, so will grab that and run the gang through Lost Mines of Phandelver. I'm not new to gaming, having played quite a bit of 3rd Ed back in the day. My question...

I was dabbling with the Find A Game! tab and noticed my profile still showed me as living in Virginia and when I clicked a 'quick search', it showed a bunch of people around where I used to live. Now that I'm in California, though, I put my current location in my profile and BAM! No more...

My gaming library has a lot of good adventures from older editions I'd like to play with 5e. I've no experience playing 5th Edition, though, so from those of you who do, which edition do you think is easiest to adapt to 5e rules? A perfect scenario would be to crack open "Night Below" or "Tomb...

The few 3rd Ed. adventures I've seen with wilderness hexes seem to prefer 5miles/hex, but I can't see why. Looking at the hourly travel rates in the PHB, an average party (20'/round) would travel 2mph, while a group traveling on light horses would likely by traveling at 4mph. The only time a...

So far Hexographer has been treating me right, but now I'm trying to use the underlay function to trace a map, and it's not working as planned. I upload the .png image of the map I'm looking to trace, but once I generate the map, it's all grey, regardless of the opacity, with no underlying...

My current OSR game of choice is ACKS, but this is a hurdle I had trouble with even back in my 2e-playing days. How do you know what is and isn't an appropriate challenge for a group of characters of a certain level? Can I just accept that an equal HD monster in the encounter numbers listed in...

I appreciate and enjoy the time and insight posters here have put into many of the [Let's Read] series on ENWorld and have long wanted to join in the fun. But I keep waffling on which RPG books I should haul out of my garage for a 20-year-later public read-thru. So I figured I'd put my options...

I really haven't been interested in DDN, but finally set aside some time to read the packet and see what was up with it. So far, there are two things I actually quite like about it and will use even in other D&D-related games I run: 1) The exploration rules are brilliant. I love the decision...

It all started with a casual flip through of the 4th Ed. version of 'Tomb of Horrors'. I thought to myself "this can only really be appreciated by players who've played the original ToH." And then my brain went "DING". The thought was, how do the different editions of D&D suggest how the...

I'm looking at some of my favorite boxed sets from 2nd edition and I'm hell-bent on linking them into a campaign. This campaign would start with "Night Below," transition to "Rod of Seven Parts" and cap with "Return to the Tomb of Horrors," all of it wrapped up in "Greyhawk Wars." I understand...

No lie, the Warlord is my favorite class in 4e (especially the Bravura Warlord), but as much as I enjoy the tactical and boosting abilities, my brain balks at the idea of motivational healing. I've the ghost of an idea, though, that says Temporary HP are more fitting to the Warlord than just...

I've done some skimming through the Scales of War AP in Dungeon Magazine, trying to glean some ideas for a war-themed campaign. However, my light read hasn't revealed a whole lot of the "war". There's a pretty cool siege on the PCs home city, and what looks like a nice "pick the coalition...

Looking at my Player's Handbook II, I see a heap of classes I've never played or even seen played. There's 22 in all, including the four classes introduced in PHB2, and I'm curious how all these classes rate against each other. In y'all's experience, which of these classes do the best at...

Was feeling a bit nostalgic the other day and decided to bust out my old 2nd ed. PHB. It's been, like, 25 years since I played it, and was curious how much I'd forgotten about the game in the decades since. As I started reading it, though, I had a few thoughts that didn't warrant a [let's...

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I've been impressed with a lot of the adventures WotC has been putting out lately for D&D. I can't wait to run my group through 'Reavers of Harkenwald', 'Madness at Gardmore Abbey', and the current re-scripting of the Giant series. Unfortunately, my friends haven't played 4e before, and I'm...

Quick, name the TSR setting which featured absent gods and dragons as mere myths and legends. If you said "Dragonlance", you're right. If you also said "Dark Sun", you see where I'm going with this. I was flipping through my old TSR .pdf library the other day when the parallels of the two...

I've really come to appreciate the .pdf format of the books available at RPGNow, being especially drawn to the cheap price tag connected to the old TSR stuff. I'm looking for any opinions about what some of the older gamers (you know who you are) think about the 2nd or even 1st edition AD&D...

With Aberrant and Adventure! already converted to D20, I figure it won't be long before Trinity makes its appearance. Fans of the original game will remember the detailed world of the future presented in that game, as well as the convoluted metaplot that ran in the Darkness Revealed and Alien...