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I suspect a high percentage of 2e books were bought but never used. I think that’s true in general for RPG’s, but more so if Morris is right that there were 1000 2e books. Did anyone actually run “A Mighty Fortress”, or “Council of Dragons”? Now, those are setting books, but the same...

Perhaps canon not the right term, but the OP (Sacrosanct) was using it as a synonym for “core”, but I the gist is really “is it optional or mandatory”. I agree with Morris nothing is truly mandatory in D&D. Maybe breaking down “non-optional” or “mandatory”, the concept is something like: in...

I didn’t play deep enough into the 2e era for it to matter, but our approach with UA was that was optional, so the same would have applied, similar to what the OP said. My history with AD&D: 1982-1988: AD&D 1e player 1988-1989: AD&D 2e player 1984-1986, 1996-2001: AD&D 1e DM 1986-1991: Oriental...

I feel even Greyhawk (my favorite) has too many versions and starting dates. I think the old Harn approach (not sure if it’s changed), of a single year for all setting and adventure products, is better. You can give ideas for future timelines, but leave room for each campaign’s events to lead...

I agree it had to be deliberate. I’ve been thinking about why. Some theories. 1) The existing material was overwhelming. They wanted to par it down for new players who had never heard of Volo. 2) The existing material was overwhelming even for them. Without a good “series bible” and...

They sure did. I wonder if Forgotten Realms is more than all the other settings put together? I suspect with novels, it was, but without the novels, all that proliferation of “other settings” May sum to more than FR? Regardless, it was a prolific era. It would likely take longer than a...

I have many, many AD&D and 3.x books. But I do find buying on PDF convenient for things I missed, and for looking things up, and copying and pasting. WotC did right in publishing much of the back catalog on PDF.

I was talking about the Basic setting, which was called Known World or Mystara, and had many sub settings. We seem to be failing to communicate, so I’ll state it categorically: I’m neither ignorant of, nor disputing, FR’s absolute supremacy among D&D settings. I’m not sure about the quality...

I like that.

I briefly scrolled through 3.Y. A major change is Soul Knife as a main character class (and no Prestige Classes). In 25 years of 3.x DMing, I have only seen Prestige Classes for PCs a few times, so I am not too concerned. (I generally prefer not, but tolerate it.) But how to do Psionics in...

Yes, obviously FR is the only setting to a huge percentage of D&D players. I meant “divided by”. Pages per person who prefers the Basic setting. I don’t know anyone who prefers that setting, but I keep discovering more expansions to Mystara/Known World, like Thunder Rift. So much was...

I have no doubt this is true, but I am surprised more by the plethora of materials and sub settings in the Known World/Mystara. On a pages / (divided by) people whose favorite setting it is, the Basic setting might win?

I would try it if D&D Beyond supported 3.5e. (I use a little, free version as a player in a few times a year 5e 2024 game.) WotC may fear angering or confusing their 5e fans. On Facebook’s largest BG3 group, earlier this week someone asked about 3x mods. The reaction was UGLY. Some posts...

Coming back to ENworld after a long time out. I run my 3.5e campaigns - two of them right now on email - as Core Books + individual rules requested and approved by me. The most complicated thing was a modified Ranger class a player wanted. Sources for extra rules could be splatbooks, PH2, PF1...

I deleted that part of the comment, but you saw it in time. Oh well.

Has anyone in this thread actually claimed this happened to them? If so, I missed it - I’ve seen “I heard this was a thing”.

I get the concept of having unique rules. Personally I would not go that way. I’d stick closer to the mechanics for similar weapons, like heavy crossbows. Maybe go with heavy damage and slow reloading, but keep the defense as AC instead of a save. But have the AC without armor?

I thought facial illiteracy meant not recognizing individuals rather than not recognizing emotions on faces?

I think there’s “presentism” there - one way to prove the present game is better is to diss the un-enlightened past, including straw man versions of the past. As for “proof” of the existence or prevalence of pointy-hatted DM’s, IIRC, “The Elfish Gene”, a British gamers memoir, talks about...

Yes, but more that I was never into 5e. I’m tired of playing it and of hearing about it. I know I’m not the target audience. I’m supposed to level up to 10th for a 5e2024 game on Saturday, and I’m just not feeling it.