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Here's a weird question... The Oni's Shape Change ability reads as follows: "The oni magically polymorphs into a Small or Medium humanoid, into a Large giant, or back into its true form." Emphasis mine. Let's say that an Oni had infiltrated a Duergar society. It can easily polymorph into a...

In coordination with BackerKit, Goodman Games is hosting the Indie RPG Creator Summit on January 8-10, 2024; three days of Zoom webinars on Indie RPG creation, publishing, marketing. Here's the announcement they posted on Twitter: All of these things are just like the others... Perhaps...

Welcome, one and all, to the 2023 IRON DM Tournament. Eight contestants enter the arena. One emerges as the IRON DM 2019. To keep down the clutter, all scheduling will take place in the scheduling thread. Ingredients, entries, and judgements will all be posted in this thread. As usual...

Over twenty years ago, one man had a dream,… to find the best, most creative DMs the internet had to offer. To this end, he crafted an arena in which DMs could test their creative mettle against one another, in an elimination fight to the finish to determine which deserved the title of IRON DM...

I've certainly heard about Traveller, but apart from the whole "you can die during character creation" thing I know next to nothing about it, and I doubt that's a part of the current game. There's a pretty great Humble Bundle going right now with the 2022 update rules. What's the game like? Why...

I like to think I'm connoisseur of RPGs, but the truth is I know there are lots and lots and lots of different games and systems out there that I've never so much as heard of, let alone read. But the great thing about this giant nerdy melting pot is that collectively I've sure we've played just...

The internet is chock-a-block full of advice for DMs and game masters from the widest possible range of styles and theories. But one thing I've noticed a lack of is advice for burgeoning designers and publishers. DMs Guild and DriveThruRPG products don't burst forth fully formed from the...

In a thread recently, there was a series of posts that very explicitly stated the following; 1) Poster "A" blocked Poster "B" 2) Poster "B" expressed some confusion over the block 3) An unknown Poster "C" copied Poster "A"s post and direct messaged it to Poster "B" We all know that there are...

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Just curious, but how do I report for the mods actions that don't themselves have a Report button attached? For example; antagonistic laugh reacts, or anti-inclusive custom titles?

I don't know how many plus signs we need here, but three seems good. The Premise: H*rry P*tter (and especially its very vocal creator) are terrible*, but the concept of the magical school is one that has been bringing children of all ages (including the children at heart) for many decades now...

This question popped up in another forum of an absolutely precious newbie playing the OG Infinity Engine games and asked the eternal question: why do Cleric spells only go up to level 7? Why not 9 like Wizards? And obviously WotC agrees with their point, but that doesn't actually answer the...

This is something that's been bothering me for a bit, and I know that it's probably a deliberate choice but I still want to get it off my chest. It's really crappy when threads get shut down because of trolls crapping on the thread. It happens, routinely, every time there is an attempt at a...

Thread title. We all like to talk about the Ranger. How it's crap, how it lacks an identity, how it's great, how it's supposed to have magic, how it used to be crap but now it's great, how it's perfectly fine, how its identity is clear, how its not supposed to be magical, how it used to be great...

Hello! I've been working on some homebrews of some old classes re-envisioned for 5th edition. A lot of these have plenty of their own homebrew versions available on DMs Guild or Reddit or what have you, but I wanted to try to take a somewhat different approach with these classes rather than...

This here's the spoiler thread for all us book fans to openly discuss the series and speculate about the future of the upcoming TV shows. We can leave the other thread spoiler free for folx who are coming to the franchise with fresh eyes. So what do you think? Will Rand steal the spotlight...

I've been slowly making my way through the book when I have a spare moment, but I wanted to know if anybody has considered (or has already started) converting the book into a full campaign with a common through-line. From the little of the book and reviews I've read, it seems that fey seem to...

It is starting right now, for folx who are interested. Here's the Youtube link: Time for some extremely Chaotic-Swedish energy!

I'm thinking about running Curse of Strahd for my friends, but I know that there are aspects of CoS that are objectionable*. My plan is to go through the adventure and make edits as if I were acting as a sensitivity reader. Here's what I've got so far. *Note the (+) in the thread title. It's...

Taking @el-remmen's suggestion into account, I've moved our more general discussion to a new thread. My own purpose: building an interesting and exciting IRON DM spinoff for the summer. On the table right now are two main ideas. Perhaps I'll start a poll thread at some point to gauge general...