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I don’t think they’ve put the effort in. They could’ve done something more with Drizzt if they put their minds to it. A Dark Elf or Icewind Dale animated series would’ve kicked ass but these feel like the obvious things that they never attempt. The most we get are novels.

Past 200 feet, we just call it instant death.

The thing that gets me about these covers and the artwork of the D&D cartoon is that Venger, Warduke, Presto, Eric, Sheila, and the rest were not really this iconic cornerstone of the game for me. They were a Saturday morning cartoon that was really disconnected from anything with the game...

I think it’s just a self-defeating goal. You’re looking at the end result of 10 years of products for an edition. I’d prefer a system that reigns in the permutations via multiclassing versus trying to get rid of classes overall and having a slew of feats instead.

Heads, you hit the Orc. Tails, you miss. D2 system all the way.

Can’t agree with that. That speaks to your tastes in systems, not that the system that doesn’t follow that level of simplicity or modularity wrong. For instance, I want arcane magic to feel decidedly different from psionics or from clerical magic.

The interesting thing about that is WotC has been very on and off over the years about making their named NPCs (at least those not named Drizzt) a central point of their advertising.

I think because everyone read the question as “what’s the lowest number of classes I need for D&D?”

I always see myself doing a combination of bottom up and top down. While I think people can world build in either way, I think overall, it gets people playing the game faster and engaging with the game faster when they do a bottom up approach and expanding as needed, though sometimes this may...

I think this completely depends on whether we have subclasses, prestige classes, and multi-classing. All of these are things that expand the total number of "classes" and have their own particular design implications. Subclasses inherit abilities from their primary class. Multiclasses allow...

It’s like Tetris.

The way I see it is that you either like gnomes OR you like halflings. They occupy the same short space in my fantasy brain and there’s only room for one.

I padded out a whole Masque of the Red Death campaign with Call of Cthulhu adventures from Cthulhu by Gaslight. Worked pretty well!

The thing that I’ve noticed about nostalgia is how selective it is. For instance, nobody remembers some of the absolute dreck in music, tv or movies that came out in the 80s, for instance. People get nostalgic about the more distinctive or popular stuff from any time, and leave the rest behind...

Splitting the party is awesome! 😎

Found it! Atlas Games / Penumbra. He did a series of modules with John Tynes for 3rd edition that were excellent.

And maybe get rid of stuff like Tabot = Tibet.

I’ve always like Mearls’ work going back to 3rd edition products (what was the name of that line he worked again?) Just stop going to the carpet for guys like Zak S., Mike. :)

Those do seem like extreme cases - makes me wonder if these are game store open table sessions, though I always think to myself “who would act like that in public?”

I know this is just me and the probabilities aren’t terribly different from the d20 distribution but something about the success on a d6 mechanic that’s at the core of the system doesn’t sit right with me. It could be that I don’t think the GM that I played Blades with was fully comfortable with...