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One way or another, 1.0a will effectively be sunset. Even if it isn't deauthorized, would you trust Wizards of the Coast again? I wouldn't. And SRD 5.2 or 6.0 or whatever they call the OneDnD SRD will have a new license regardless. But I'd argue that it's still important to fight for it. And...

Just curious. Like the original Dinotopia books were more of an art and worldbuilding book, not actually related to tabletop or other media.

I got to thinking that this could be an interesting dynamic. Sure, a narrator would have to increase the wealth of drops to compensate for XP, and sure, players could buy (maybe) higher tiered magical items at earlier levels, but it would allow for strongholds to be invested in fairly early. And...

I love A5E's strongholds, but the text surrounding them is very focus on individual ownership rather than party ownership. If the party chips into make a stronghold, is it best to handle it through sub-strongholds? Let each party member have the stronghold feat?

I am not surprised but I am angry and disappointed. Paizo really should learn from Enworld on how to run a crowdfunding campaign. Now if they have hard copies for sale at Gencon before I at LEAST get my PDFs, I will be full on enraged. Right now I am venting on Twitter, which is not something I...

But I also know how long it can take to develop for that platform, so I'm not expecting it for 1 to 2 years for base functionality, 2 to 4 years for polish. Fortunately 5e is very well supported on Fantasy Grounds and the 5e OGL module should make a great starting point.

I get it - there are folk who love their orcs to be evil and barberous, their drow to be evil, a bit psychotic, and prone to extreme darwinism, etc. I just find it shallow and pedantic. Orcs are more interesting if they're hostile jerks because all the "civilized" races treat their beliefs...

No, I'm not asking for this to be core. But at some point, I'd like a "d20 Modern/Future/Past" version compatable with 5e. Had some fun times genre bending with 3.5. Fun times.

Star Wars Saga - one of the best product lines by WotC, blending 3.5, D20 modern/future, and a few things that were going to end up in 4e. One aspect I really liked about how Saga was handled was in the presentation. I'd like to see something similar with 5e. Step 1: Forgotten Relms treated as...

One thing I liked about 4e monster design over 3e was the sheer amount of powers (especially for high level monsters) got trimmed down, often paired with a recharge mechanic of "roll a d6." I'd like to see it on the player side, perhaps as a replacement for the "Encounter Power" - Roll a check...

For some reason, going between Small and Medium size creatures in 3.5, Pathfinder, and 4e works out fine. But from Medium to Large (at least in 3.5 & Pathfinder)? It doesn't work well. There are balance issues, which means I have to creatively solve/work around on the fly, etc. I'd like to...

There. I said it. There is one thing that will kill 5e for me, and that is if all it does is commit Wizards of the Coast to the abyssal plane of Remakes. I'm fully aware that isn't WotC's intention, but some of the feedback they receive could push them in this direction. It's the difference...

As someone who isn't emotionally tied to a system, I am curious - what is it that ties a person to a specific gaming system emotionally?

Let me tell you a little story... I started playing during the heyday of 3.5. When I looked throught the core rulebook, I decided to play an elf paladin. I was warned that it was going to be a bit tricky, especially for a first time player, because elf paladin isn't optimised. I also played...

Current write-up of elves and elf-related races for my current campaign setting (recently gone systemless). Depth into their cultures has more to do with individual regions of the world, and I want to leave a decent amount of fuzzyness. Plus I don't want it to read like a bad sociological paper...

Does anybody really read past the first paragraph or two in a core book or splat before skipping down to the stats? On occassion I might, but usually I read just far enough in to see what the basic flavoring is, unless it's a campaign setting. "Hrm...elf..what flavor? French polynesian samuri...

I'll be honest - I have trouble designing with the shorter races in mind. Oh, kobolds and goblins are easy enough, but halflings, gnomes, etc are always kinda just there. Build their own little world around them and they are just another near-human, with everything built to their scale. In a...

I got to thinking...while Forgotten Realms (FR) isn't nearly as huge as Star Wars (SW) as a franchise, there's a lot in common between the SW Expanded Universe (EU) and the FR novelizations: both have to keep some sort of crisis going in order to sell books, both are subject to editorial...

Or really, any other race in D&D - what is the essense of that race? 4e split Urban, magical elves from woodsy elves. 3e mixed both with mixed results, then patchworked with "there's an elf for that." The race started as a class back in the old days as a mix of wizard/fighter. Dragonlance kept...

Over-easy, or sunny side up? There's the Tolkien Elves, which represent a cross between fallen angels and perfection ultimatly marred by hubris, built more or less along a Celtic/Nordic (icelandic nordic, I believe) background. Pretty much the current trope of High Fantasy. D&D..well, you...