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This post is to share the current state of some ongoing light research I've been doing into some of the more common peoples of fantasy and folklore. For some time now, I've had an ongoing project to identify and pin down some of the real-world equivalents of certain setting elements of JRR...

No trilogies. The model for this should be the Martin Scorsese/Paul Schrader triptych: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ. While I was driving a few days ago, I started thinking about the connection (in my mind) between Star Wars and car culture, which I think comes...

It had been about six months since our last session which I posted about here. The level-one PCs are: my daughter's characters: Ham, human fighter, Ozmir, chaotic good tiefling paladin who lied his way out of a hostile interaction, and Soliana, high elven war cleric, still injured after an...

Hello everybody, The situation is there are some ceramic lidded jars containing gold pieces and poisonous live insects or reptiles. How would you run this? I'm thinking of it as more of a trap than a combat but am open to ideas anyone has. Thanks!

[Edit. The term Neolithic in this post has been replaced with terms relating to the geologic time scale to clarify its emphasis on time-period rather than measures of cultural development.] This came up in another thread, and I've branched it off here to avoid further derailing that discussion...

It's been about a month now, sometime after the pop-up and banner ads were added. The site's functionality became severely limited on my android, which is my primary mobile device. The navigation and menu buttons don't work, and I can't type in the "reply to thread" box. Around the same time...

This post is a follow-up to the one in which I posted about our first session, here. To recap, the dramatis personae are: my daughter's characters: Ham, human fighter, Ozmir, tiefling paladin, and Soliana, high elven war cleric, and my son's characters: a human druid, a human rogue, and a...

I'm using the random dungeon generation system in the DMG and rolled up a treasure contained in small coffers and "hidden by invisibility". I'm wondering what the intent might be. Are the coffers themselves to be considered invisible objects, or are they merely found within an area of...

This is something I've had bumping around for a while but haven't committed to paper until now. It's basically a mash-up of the 5E Multiverse with JRR Tolkien's Matter of Middle-earth, mostly from the Ainulindalë which I've drawn on mostly from memory and some internet searches. I've changed...

For my 50th birthday, my two teenage children agreed to play D&D with me. From an earlier discussion with my son about playing some classic adventures in which each player would control a stable of characters, it was decided they would have three characters each. When discussing options for the...

I wanted to reformulate the question asked in this thread because it seems to presuppose an ability check whereas many player action declarations are resolved without one. The options are pretty much what it says in the poll. Here's a slightly expanded version of the list of responses, some of...

The Lord of the D&Ds Three LBBs to play D&D with polyhedral dice, Seven more editions and every retro-clone, Nine years of 3PP 5e to monetize, One for the shareholders on their dark throne In the Land of Hasbro where the IP lies. One D&D to rule them all, One D&D to find them, One D&D to bring...

Hi and Merry Christmas, if that's your thing, The recent discussions about the possibility of using species for the game-term currently known as race got me thinking about what nomenclature I would use to describe the various speaking peoples of my homebrew setting as I imagine them and as if I...

I have long thought the film adaptation of the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) I would most like to see would be in the form of a series of one-hour episodes, each one covering just one chapter of the book as faithfully as possible. Another idea I've had for a...

First, a disclaimer: this post is in no way meant to imply a "one true way" of handling setting in D&D. I'm aware the games are played with a wide variety of setting details, some of which intentionally subverts assumptions the games seem to make about what fiction can be imagined about where...

The rules of 5E give this definition of roleplaying: Roleplaying is, literally, the act of playing out a role. In this case, it’s you as a player determining how your character thinks, acts, and talks. The passage goes on to say that roleplaying “is a part of every aspect of the game,” and that...

Hello Everyone! I'm announcing my first offering on DM's Guild, released today. It's called Masters of None: 0th-Level Characters. Here's a link. Build your character as you play your way through 0th level! Masters of None: 0th-Level Characters contains rules for playing your character as...

This is something I'd thought about adapting to 5E back around the release of the edition and had decided there was no good way to do it. The problem is there's not much room between an 18 Strength and a 19 Strength, or even between a +4 and a +5. A recent thread (thanks @Minigiant ) got me...

Hello, I'm running a game using tables from the 1E DMG and ended up rolling an encounter with halflings. The 1E MM has stats for regular troop-type halflings, same as it does for lots of humanoid/demi-humans, but 5E? Not so much. Anyways, I whipped up a little stat-block for the occasion and...

Hello, I'm running a game in which weather (including daily high and low temperature) is generated randomly. I use temperature descriptors such as hot, warm, mild, chilly, and cold. I'm also using the Gritty Realism rest variant, but I think what I have here could apply to default resting just...