Recent content by Dire Bare

Something I miss from the 3E days is the "web enhancement". Many of the D&D 3E books had extra content available to download online, usually in PDF format. Some of the extras weren't terribly exciting or useful, but some of it was pretty awesome. Some of it was "cut for space" material, others...

What fantasy genre? THE fantasy genre! Granted, even back in the 70s, the fantasy genre was broad . . . if dominated by Lord of the Rings. Gygax and the community that informed his development of D&D essentially picked and chose their favorite elements from various fantasy stories and myths to...

I wouldn't use the term "diluted", but the paladin class has certainly broadened over the decades. As have all of the other classes as well, especially in 5E. And, IMO, that's a good thing. The fantasy genre that D&D attempts to model is also a lot broader than it was in the 70's. And the game...

Dude, relax. You disagree with some of the other posters here, no need to get aggressive about it.

Could they easily have avoided this? Well, maybe. It's possible the design team did not remember this obscure canon detail. If so, I'm okay with that. If they did remember . . . yes, they could have easily avoided the situation. But they didn't, likely because they thought the idea was cooler...

Dude, be like Elsa.

As several posters above mentioned, the paladin class was directly inspired by the character of Holger Carlsen from the novel Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson. Holger is an eternal champion type of character that serves the cosmic forces of law and good. But yes, a large part of...

It's not that D&D needs a certain number of classes . . . but the current roster covers fantasy archetypes fairly well. Adding another class that has equal "archetypal weight" to the existing classes is hard. I'd like to see the artificer graduate to the PHB. I'd like the warlord and psion to...

Hey now, the internet is for negative hyperbole, not facts. Get back in line!

Love the cover art for both the new PHB and DMG. I'm excited to see the alternative art for the DMG! And of course, what's on the MM?

This approach is a healthier one, IMO. When TSR changed classic settings back in the day, and when WotC changed classic settings over the years . . . if you don't like the changes, you can get all bent out-of-shape over it, or just accept it as a different version of the setting that you don't...

In my personal Dragonlance campaign (which someday, I might even run at a table), I swapped out the Good-Neutral-Evil axis for a Law-Neutral-Chaos axis. It makes more sense to me.

Dragonlance has "changed completely" in the 5th Edition? Okay, can't take that seriously. It's changed, sure, but not drastically or significantly.

Sure, putting the actual legal ownership aside, the fans collectively have some ownership over the setting and the stories told within it. But . . . did I miss the vote when we all decided that these types of canon changes are unwelcome and a problem? Some fans are really bothered by it, to a...

Sure. Whatever. Not really. Don't care. That's my point. What is canon? Showing up in an official Dragonlance product? I guess they are canon now! And this isn't the first time werewolves have appeared in an official Dragonlance book. The intent of the original team? Not saying that it doesn't...