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WotC already does "support" older editions or versions of D&D. They sell all the older product on DriveThurRPG and DMs Guild. An official TSR module that you don't already own is "new support" for your game as far as your table is concerned. Just buy that. It's just as "new" as something...

I voted for: Hobnobbing with important NPCs. Romance/marriage. Building a legacy. Political Intrigue. Solving Mysteries. Basically everything involving narrative actions my character takes relative to the peoples and places around him/her. So in fact the list given could be missing any number...

No one here on these boards is stopping anyone from getting what they want. What IS stopping folks from getting what they want is that nobody else actually wants to MAKE what that person wants. If someone wants an extension or expansion off of 5E14... they should have been making it and...

You don't read the right threads then. ;) I see nothing but people complaining endlessly about how the Wizard is overpowered and that Martials pale by comparison, LOL!

I went None. Not a big fan of the smudgy, not-terribly-detailed backgrounds of the three images, plus all the characters and figures being so proportionally smaller in the frame. There just seems like there's a lot of extra empty space around all the characters, all of which is just smudgy...

Kind of odd to bother with an 'Advanced D&D 5E' a full decade after the game's release. Wouldn't it have made sense to make all these changes to (general) your game 10 years ago when you hadn't played the heck out of the version you didn't like? I'm pretty sure probably every single potential...

No one needs to worry about Boomers or Gen X with regards to Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. The people who make the game certainly don't. They have said repeatedly over the years that they don't care what edition of D&D people play or any game at all that they play for that matter... they...

It's kind of odd they are specifically looking for an engineer named Al. You'd think that it wouldn't matter what their name was so long as they could do the job. I wonder if it matters if they are an 'Albert' or 'Allen', or 'Alfred'?

It would certainly be an interesting way to set up and look at a potential setting-- Humans not being the central protagonists like they are in most created settings, but rather are the fringe species just based on how they behave and act. They should still have their overwhelming numbers like...

That certainly could be an interesting way to look at it for a setting, wherein Humans are like cockroaches to the other species-- kinda gross, keep showing up, turn over a rock and there are thousands of them because they breed like nobody's business. They certainly serve a purpose-- they are...

I do like the ideas given that humans only specialize by individual and not by species, that because of their shorter lifespans they don't care as much about natural resources (since they won't be on the earth long enough to suffer the consequences from exploiting it), but are also masters of...

If it were me, I'd start by putting my D&D books aside and then go looking for sourcebooks from other games that are of the era that you speak of. Like I wouldn't be surprised if there was a GURPS sourcebook for Industrial-era, Victorian, or WWI-era gaming. So I'd pick up one of those... find...

I do agree. There are words that have either evolved away from their origins or have become so commonplace in their usage that any attempts to get those words changed or removed from common parlance are facing incredibly uphill battles. Even besides the words used formerly for mental...

I tend to concern myself as DM more with the actions of the players to avoid falling to begin with. Or if they do fall, what they do to try and save themselves as they plunge. Those are the kind of theatrical narrative hero moments that are the most interesting and compelling to play out, not...

I actually can understand and sympathize where @Levistus's_Leviathan is coming from. D&D over the years has occasionally changed naming/identity/theming of certain parts of their game based on the evolution of culture over time and what is now no longer considered acceptable to large portions...