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A player in my 3.5e campaign is becoming a 3.5e DM himself. He told me he’s getting “free” 3e splatbooks, like the Mininatures book, from two websites. I assume this is NOT some real, legitimate release by WotC? Or did they eventually free release several 3e era books? Since I don’t see...

Has anyone put together character sheets for the Honor Among Thieves characters? I assume so and I just missed it?

Eventually, I plan to have my players interview a number of NPC’s in Saltmarsh, to hire a crew for a caravel sailing for the Isle of Dread. Saltmarsh: the iconic seaside fishing and smuggling town where the AD&D U series “Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh“ begins, as detailed in DMG2 for 3.5e and...

Two friends and I have played a bit of Solasta: Crown of the Magister on Xbox. My friends aren't D&D people, and I told them it was pretty close to a D&D 5e game. I kinda think it makes D&D look bad. I could tolerate the long cut scenes and the railroad plot (we're 2nd level, so on rails is...

It’d kinda awesome if the OGL1.1 debacle led to a Renaissance of OGL 1.0/3e. Just sayin’.

So what do we, the Older Edition community, think of One D&D? My initial thoughts on a new edition are: Please don’t. With the exception of 3 & 5, the number of players in new editions has been smaller than the edition before - 50/50 chance that it hurts the long term prospects for the game...

Like the FR question, but for any settings. Played in any edition, including PF, etc.

A medium-sized character is engaged in melee with a medium-sized monster in a dungeon. Another medium-sized character directly behind the first character - and 20 ft. back - fires an arrow. Is the penalty to hit essentially -8? -4 on attack roll for firing into melee without Precise Shot feat...

Resist Energy or Protection from Energy have Target = One Creature. Do Objects held by that character also gain the protection? Specifically, if you have Protection from Energy: Fire on a character, and the character strikes a Magmin with a weapon, does the weapon somehow gain in the Fortitude...

I remember seeing ads for makers of custom minis for Player Characters a while back. Have you done it? Recommend any vendors? Not interested in making my own - I’m not artistic at all and don’t want to buy a 3D printer.

Anyone ever play, or pay attention to, Pelinore? A read up on it after seeing a Facebook post about it. It was created by TSR UK in their short-lived “Imagine” magazine, and the even shorter-lived Gamemaster Publications after TSR layoffs. it sounds vaguely interesting, but never really used.

Should Common, Elvish, Orcish, etc. be the same language across different settings like Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and Known World? Or each has its own unintelligible version?

I’m interested in a quick, basic source for Basic info on the Known World setting. Something like the Greyhawk Folio, or the original AD&D 1e boxed sets for Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms. Just the main parts, not the other continents or the Known World. Karameikos, Darokin, Thyatis, all...

Huh, “D&D Older Editions” is now its own forum under “General Tabletop Discussion“. It seems the official position is: If ain’t 5e, it ain’t D&D.

As a DM, I love NPC’s. The pregen PC’s in modules can be fun to use as competitors, enemies, allies, or just people the PC’s meet. It doesn’t even matter to me what rules set they are from - a fun NPC to me is good story, hook, and personality, with ability score stats, class, and gear to fit...

I have some issues bought from FLGS over the years, but I wish I had every issue. Are they available somewhere? NobleKnight and eBay have some issues. DriveThruRPG doesn’t seem to have PDF, except 4e era. I see places saying they have earlier PDF’s, but I suspect they are unauthorized?

So in Temple of Elemental Evil, it’s ambiguous about who kidnapped Prince Thrommel. Obvious would be Iuz, but mentions Iuz is angry at the Scarlet Brotherhood, the SB emerged the same year Thrommel went missing, and LGG mentions suspicious than the SB did it. Canonfire doesn’t have an answer...

One of my players wants to make a lot of magic items, and he’s concerned about the time it takes. We all agree it cost 1/2 of market price in gp, and 1/25 of market price XP. But says 1/1000 of the “base price“ in days, means 1/2000 of the market price. I say 1/1000th of market price. So does...

I’ve seen and answered a few threads like this, but it’s always a good question. My brother-in-law is visiting with his 10 & 8 year old, and wants me to DM for them, to get them off devices. I really know 3.5 best, and I’ve run a ton of stuff in Greyhawk, specifically Bissel, which makes...

I use D20SRD.org all the time to look up D&D 3.5e Core Rules. I have all the books, but it's quicker and easier to be able to search and cut and paste rules as I'm working to prep (and in my email game). However, Windows Defender detected twice it was trying to download something that it...