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Which isn't really what people mean when they say "toolkit". The Core Rulebook is a toolkit for Pathfinder. It still has a default assumption in Golarion. You can strip that out and use PF to run any setting you want (even D&D settings) but in absence of any specific setting, you default to...

Oh absolutely. I didn't like it from a Ravenloft: The Setting aspect at all, but as a spooky castle with a vampire adventure, it was a lot of fun.

Seven was the magic number.

***What about the SRDs for previous editions? Because we still need to complete reviews on those materials before they’re released into Creative Commons, we made the decision to wait until after the 2024 rules revisions were released to begin reviews of those documents*** Not forgotten, just...

Expedition was a lot of fun, but it's clearly a I6 redux and cared nothing about the Ravenloft setting (Curse of Strahd was more respectful than Expedition). But boy did we have fun running that one. Strahd has a body count in that module that made him truly terrifying...

Is it? How many people complain about neu-Vancian casting? Or the spellcasting ranger? I don't think D&D is modular enough to be the bucket of blocks because it still only is good at playing D&D with D&D assumptions. Try and model something like Earthsea or Lord of the Rings style with it and...

I'm sure evoker wizards would be willing to argue the point.

I've never bought into this line of thinking. D&D has too much inherent lore to be a tool kit. Its modular, I give you that, but it's modular in the way buying a Lego set of a castle is; there is a clear model you are supposed to build, even if you can also use the parts to build a racecar as...

Not that I'm aware of? I didn't follow closely during that era as I remember the mechanics they produced were subpar and the fact that they spread the line so thin (player book, DM book, monster book, gazetteers) made collecting it difficult for me. In hindsight, I find the gazetteers are a...

@der_kluge , if you don't mind me asking (and at the risk of opening the can it worms all Ravenloft threads end up) are you basing your Ravenloft on the classic era (Black box/red box), DoD era (Domains of Dread/3e Arthaus) or 5e era? The setting has different assumptions based on which one you...

Does this make Basic Conroy?

I think part of the charm, and frustration, of Ravenloft is Nightmare Logic. That is, things happen in Ravenloft that would be giant flashing warning signs in any other D&D campaign (let alone the real world) but are completely accepted by the people at large. PCs are unique because they're some...

The issue though is what do you put in the Player's Handbook? There has to be some default description of what an elf or dragonborn is, and right now WotC is trending toward the most bland and superficial lore possible to keep it compatible with the vast majority of D&D worlds. There is no...

Currently because we're not 100% sure the heavy weapons being based on Stat not size is going to survive. And I wasn't sure on the armor thing; I vaguely recalled something about halflings not wearing orc armor, but its been a minute since I had to worry about it. Honesty, if it were me, I'd...

Granted, that's the trade-off. I'd personally rather have a single, strong flavor (cf Golarion in Pathfinder) than a bland flavorless porridge you have to turn into something flavorful. IMHO.

I'm not overly fond of 4e's racial mechanical design (essentially, it was two +2 ASI, two +2 skills, one or two ribbon features and an encounter power, and sometimes a +1 to a defense if the ASI affected the same defense). But lore-wise, it was on-pointe. That was the beauty of only supporting a...

Arguably, the wizard should be the controller and the sorcerer the blaster, but since wizard players get teh sadz if you do anything to curtail their power, wizards end up doing both roles better.

Back in the day, I recall a DM explaining racial height to me thusly: Halfling: 3 ft Gnome: 3.5 ft Dwarf: 4 ft Elf: 5 ft Half-elf: 5.5 ft Human: 6 ft Half-orc: 6.5 ft. Later, Halflings in 4e were closer to 4ft, Elves closer to 6 ft, and dwarves closer to 5 ft. That seemed to have been rolled...

Currently, it has very corner case applications like weapon size (can't use weapons with the heavy property) and some rules about squeezing into tight spaces. I think it also has some application in nonmagical armor. On the one hand, I don't mind that. Tracking every change for a size S race...

No, not really. None of the classes play radically differently than their 2014 versions. We avoided major overhauls the spellcasting warlocks or template druids. The three spell list system and revision to subclasses were rolled back. What we are getting are some much needed additional class...