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Continuing through the 2024 MM, it brings up some things that haven't changed much. One of them is that the reach and damage of the Gargantuan creatures seems woefully small compared to their descriptions. I get the desire for game balance and fun, the big hp totals and defenses some of them...

Am I right that the 2024 books have almost nothing about CRs? It almost reads like they meant to put more in either the DMG or MM and then didn't, or did I miss something? Player's Handbook Page 363: "Challenge Rating (CR) summarizes the threat a monster poses to a group of four player...

Every year, the Professor at Tolarian Community College puts up prizes and rallies the MtG community to donate to Trans Lifeline. The 2025 campaign started about noon on February 12th, and just over 24 hours later (time of posting this) it is at almost $150k from over 4,100 donors. If...

My PHB and DMG came today. Am I right that there is no section of inspirational material? (If not, apologies if I missed the discussion of it. If so, where is it hiding?) Which other editions didn't have one? Is it a loss?

Feel free to ignore the quest below in your reply!!! If you want to make notes about what the myths really are and how the books are wrong, or if you expand to Good or Evil or whatever, go for it! Anything you turn up might help other folks with worldbuilding ideas or give them interesting...

It's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, which makes all kinds of articles about AC pop up on line in the US, anyway. (And its in my head since I spent the week before last in a tent and am back in doors now). I'm in South Carolina, so for part of the summer it often doesn't get below 80F...

In the thread about the 2024 Player's Handbook Spells preview, we're promised... This makes me wonder about what Sage Advice has been particularly egregious. My "favorite" of what I've seen is that See Invisible (and the like) still lets the invisible thing have advantage attacking you and...

Generating abilities came up in another thread. One thing some folks like is having the random stats in a random order (maybe so not everyone of a given class has pretty much the same array, or maybe to let the dice guide what class they want). A sizeable subset of those folks don't actually...

With the release of a few pages from the 2024 PHB on Amazon, I thought it was interesting to look back at how the order of character creation has changed over the years. The tldr; is 1e to 3.5: Abilities then Race then Class 4e and 5e-2010: Race then Class then Abilities 5e-2024 Class then...

Reading Chapter 18 by Kellynn Wee in "Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons, collection of essays published by MIT Press" and came across the following about gaming in Singapore: "In the 2020s, a new wave of specialized studios [...] rose to popularity in the play scene [...]. Unlike previous...

A lot of modern zombie set-ups are based on infection (eg Walking Dead). It seems typical that this bodes poorly for everyone. How does D&D play out against this? In 5e, for example, are you left with Warforged of all types and then other races that are all training to be Paladins, and then a...

Another thread brought up how the question of how central psionics were to 1e. While this poll is just about 1e, the thread is about any version of the game so chime in below! Maybe about things like: In the other older ones, including OD&D, 2e, 3/3.5e did you use them? Did you like having...

The University of South Carolina Thomas Cooper Library currently has a small display on "Women in Science Fiction: From Frankenstein to Dungeons and Dragons." (Click on thumbnails below to see larger versions). It consists of two upright display cases and three flat ones just inside the doors...

Watching the BBC Earth channel on Roku with Attenborough, and was kind of shocked at how recently things like caterpillars turning into butterflies, birds migrating instead of hibernatinf, and whales being mammals and not fish became "scientifically known" and accepted. If there were DnD Druids...

Two not necessarily related things: (1) I am very happy that the range of characters shown in the official D&D art is much more inclusive in just about every sense than it used to be (appearances akin to the variety of IRL racial/ethnic groups, breaking streotypical gender roles, everyone gets...

Carrying over from another thread: Should the question in this thread title have "relatively" in it? In any case... I would argue that any hobby can be made expensive. One can spend upper three figures on an ultra-light tent and similar amounts on the ultra light sleeping bag and on top of...

Thread title is by Saffron Olive on Twitter in regards to... Full Hipsters twitter thread link behind spoiler: Just screen shots below.

My teen's D&D club is switching campaigns and the new one is Victorian England (so I'm guessing Steampunk). He has no experience with the genre. Do any of you have a favorite video series or movie (Netflix, Amazon, Disney+) appropriate for a high schooler? Or favorite game supplement with that...

So, Gnolls. They're monstrous non-PC things canonically in 5E (previously were humanoid, but pretty monstrously behaving). Have you played one in previous editions or this edition? Do you have a friend who did? Did you never really want to before you learned this, but now really do?

Getting the regular Halo and Halo Fan Fiction update from my son this morning as he attempts to educate me. Apparently the Logic Plague and Gravemind can take over anything with a nervous system and even AI. My question was if clockwork creatures or a giant clockwork AI would be immune. And...