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Long time reader, lurker and supporter of ENWorld. Probably like the majority of visitors though, just not very vocal.

Sooner or later everyone will be dragged kicking and screaming into the AI art future. AI is a tool, not unlike a paintbrush in some ways, and the primary complaint that it plagiarizes other artists without permission is like saying anyone who sees a Picasso and then paints a picture is...

Trying to make up a calendar for a home-brew setting, and in looking at other fantasy calendars this thought occurred to me. Starday is found in several fantasy calendars, but none describe exactly why or how it came to be called that.

As a player and a GM in both a PF and a D&D campaign, I can say that regardless of whether I buy 5e or not, I'm not going to change the game I'm playing for a long time. Plus, like a great many I plan to hold off from buying 5e until I see what the early adopters have to say about it. These are...

Hmm so it seems that having an alignment that is essentially "none" would only work in a game system where your alignment doesn't really mean much, like 4e's is "about as meaningful as your eye color". That also means that you could never use it in the standard 3x3 alignment grid either. Either...

Quite coincidentally, I was reading the book "Cheers, Gary" (a collection of ENWorld forum posts by Gary Gygax published in book form - you can read them yourself here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?22566-Q-amp-A-with-Gary-Gygax-Part-I) tonight and found this question asked of Gary...

I don't know much about 4e, but what's the difference between unaligned and neutral? Choosing an alignment that's not an alignment just sounds munchkin to me. I know a guy who runs his 3.5 game with no alignments. It works for him most of the time but it takes constant reworking of the rules...

Not sure if this is just a bad example but I don't see any problem with the alignment system. The problem in the example has more to do with poor story writing by the GM than with the alignment system. Why does the kings new wife have to be a succubus? Why does it have to be a secret? Who is it...

I think you're confusing "make sense" with "be realistic". The two are not the same. Imagine what it'd be like to play in a D&D game that didn't make sense. Now imagine one that isn't realistic. See the difference? I had fun imagining games that don't make sense, it was amusing so thanks for that.

Yes, this is the heart of my questions. I think simply saying "go with what the spell says" may not be suitable for every circumstance. I'm not saying every answer must be clear and concise and make perfect sense, but this spell does leave a bit of info about it's intended result out of it's...

Couple questions for the hive mind about Resilient Sphere. If you cast it under water, can you breathe normally, or is it filled with water? The spell description says you can breathe normally but I see room for interpretation. What if you fell into a lake of lava and casted it?

I've found it incredibly difficult to make a Player want to sacrifice their PC for any reason, no matter what's at stake, and I've had games where the players would eagerly sacrifice themselves for each other. I think the best way to get there is to make the stakes something very personal to the...

Are there any spells that give you or help you learn a creature's name?

I've been looking around for someone to make a character portrait. I found www.avatarart.com but it appears defunct, no updates since 2010 and the contact page is broken. Does anyone know where to go for professional character portraits these days? Scott

The swag actually looks cooler than the game I think.

It would be nice to include all the different types of weapons and at the same time make them different enough to merit a separate line on the table. I think what gets in the way of that is not the weapons or their properties or historical uses, but the game mechanics. If I had a dollar for...

I don't have the latest Next rules in front of me, but in 3.5 the first word of the Whip description says "A whip deals nonlethal damage." It is slashing damage, but it's nonlethal slashing damage. Maybe it's changed in the latst Next rules though.

I think this would only work if the whip deals lethal damage, which in 3.x at least, it doesn't.

Rr One of the problems I always have with armor and weapons in D&D is my knowledge of real medieval armor and weapons. Banded armor is not real. Sure, there have been armors that consisted of mainly horizontal plates (roman lorica segmenta) but there is no historical evidence of banded mail...

Awesome poll Morrus, thanks for posting it. Great results. And I think it's interesting how many comments say they are both surprised and agree with the results.