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I'm curious, having seen the discussions for decades, the carrying of lit torches and pitchforks, etal. Would it effectively stop the abuse, if I simply disallowed the ability to cast a second spell in a single round? I ask, because in all my years of playing and DM'ing, I've never used...

I was thumbing thru an old issue of Dragon, today, when I found a highly intriguing article. Alternate vampires! There were 3 templates, with examples of each: Savage vampire Shadow vampire Terror vampire. The first caught my eye- as they used an Ogre as the base creature. As I read...

I'm looking for info on module L2. I have L1 and L3, and am looking to complete the set. Anyone remember this one, or what it was called? I just went 15 pages deep on Ebay, and no dice... 1 and 3, yes- L2- no! I'm currently attempting to organize my collection of D&D stuff, and dug...

So I was thinking today... about how out of sync the games as designed seem to be with how people play. TSR era D&D actively punished action oriented/ combat heavy play- but everyone played it like that. (And just ignored the punative/restrictive parts.) Modern D&D mechanically is...

I just recieved all the items I bought off EBay, and found a couple of Surprises: There was a 2018 tenth printing edition with foil/shiny covers! I ended up getting that version of the DMG, and MM. (haven't unsealed the boxed set collection yet, so I don't know it they too are like this)...

How difficult is it to convert 3e material to 5e? can I simply substitute the 5e version of monsters for those in a written adventure and call it good? I presume some individuals will take some work- like advanced versions or those with PC classes. And treasures will need some rework, since...

For those of you who have the new books, I have a couple of questions. Was talking to my friend and long time DM yesterday. He just got the books, and is in the middle of planning and writing some adventures. We got talking about classes, and Clerical Domains. I'm planning on DM'ing...

So, I ordered a whole bunch of D&D stuff off E-bay, and this was one of them. One I was most looking forward to. (call me a dork, I like monster manuals, lol) I did little research, so was not expecting all the chapters of lore in the front. I like the ones on the Blood War, NOT a...

Yes, I suck at thread titles... Anyhow, since I was reminded of it, I thought I'd read through the old Basic and Expert rulebooks. Which gave me an idea or two. It got me thinking about our old house rules, and how I'd approach it a bit differently if that game were to come out now...

I'm wondering two things about this ability for Zombies: 1. does this apply just when a zombie is dropped to exactly 0 hp- or for any attack that drops it below 0? 2. do I roll that saving throw every time it hits 0 hp, or just the first time? I'm wondering, because I fought some Ash...

Anyone care to explain WHY Mayonnaise of all things is available in the 5E PHB's equipment section??? And in bulk, too. Is it to help that fillet of Displacer Beast slide down your gullet better? How about you guys? Any oddballs you always wondered about?

I was going through my shelves of classic D&D material, looking for something interesting to read. Prompted by all the discussion here about 1E/2E etc. I have stuff from way back when I first began I'd forgotten all about! Inc characters on the old green D&D sheets, the old AD&D yellow...

What's everyone's take on these? I have a buddy who is, shall we say, pocket money deprived. He wants to get into this version of the game I keep talking up, but buying the core books isn't in the cards, money-wise atm. Plus, he saw them for sale at Wal-Fart, and really liked the artwork...

I was just on E-bay, looking to see what D&D stuff I could find, and couldn't help but notice: THE PRICES!!! Copies of the newer 5E books were utterly, obscenely expensive! Like $200-400 expensive!! WTF,O???? These are brand new books, Like Tasha's. Do they really cost that much in...

After reading through- and posting in- the which Edition thread, and having a look through my old rulebooks I now want to play a 2nd edition game... If for no other reason than because I like the 2E monsters so much, lol. I found today, that I have 2 big binders full of Monster Compendium...

I'm currently trying out the 5E Monster creation rules. My first monster will be a Gnoll Shaman. It went pretty well, so far- the tutorial in the DMG is pretty straitforward. However, I'm kinda torn on WHAT kind of spell caster it should be. My first thought was Cleric, as the...

Since my first thread detailing my introduction to 5E got completely derailed by side conversations- then fell off the front page, I figured I'd post a new thread for the follow up stuff. I'm playtesting a party of 4 adventurers: Bob, Fighter 4; Gary, Wizard (abjurer) 3; Paddy, Cleric of...

What in the name of Fizban's hairy buttocks is bounded accuracy??? I keep seeing the term, but have no idea what it means. A search turned up about 1000 more mentions of it than I cared to wade through, and that's ALL they were: mentions. Likewise the heck is RAW? Thanks in advance to...

Preface: I began my D&D journey way back in the early 1980s with the B/X boxed sets. Probably 12 or 13 at the time. The ones that came with Keep on the Borderlands/ Isle of Dread; light blue plastic dice, with numbers you had to fill in with crayon; a rulebook, and some order forms and...

Are there rules for doing this for 5th ed? I looked all through the DMG and MM, and found nothing. It was one of my favorite things about 3rd ed- the ability to scale up common monsters with your party. Things like Orc shamans, etc. I even perused WoTC's D&D website to see if they'd...