Recent content by DEFCON 1

This is pretty close to how I always felt it was meant to be used, mainly in reference towards changes that occur in D&D during edition changes. Someone loved whatever edition of Dungeons & Dragons they were playing so much that when at some point in the future the edition of D&D got changed...

The couple of times I've done it, I used Fiasco-styled connection forming... the way you create the relationships, needs, locations, and objects that you would when playing Fiasco. They have their fantasy playset called Dragon Slayers that can give you a really good starting baseline for...

Same. When I adapted the "rifle" that gets found in the crypts of Castle Ravenloft in Curse of Strahd I kept things as simple as possible by just using the mechanics of a Wand of Lightning Bolts and changing the damage type from lightning to piercing damage. Everything else stayed the same--...

Roleplaying. That way any player that wants to have it for their character can opt-in... and those that don't can just choose not to engage in that manner with any of the NPCs they meet.

Are they saying it isn't valid in D&D on the whole... or only not valid in 5E because there are currently no ways to acquire the abilities of Nightcrawler without having to take very specific classes/subclasses/features in combination, most of which have the 'port abilities at levels that the...

Lalato.com is keeping a running list of the third-party 5E campaign setting books that have been released thus far that they have found. Right now they have calculated we are currently at 469 different settings. Campaign Settings – 5e D&D – Lalato.com

It's also a larger and more complex design scheme as well... not something the WotC designers have really cared to give to the playerbase. Not when most players who play D&D are casual and thus unconcerned with having dozens of fiddly mechanical bits to think about every single turn. They let...

This is one of the things I really liked about the WotC Star Wars RPG that came out quite a while ago... in that I believe each square was identified as a meter long, rather than 5 feet. I would presume that is also how it's done in European printings too? By identifying the distances in that...

Hey, you might be right. We won't know until the book happens. But I personally think there's no way in hell that our vocal DS fans will enjoy whatever amended setting book for Dark Sun that WotC puts out because all the edgy stuff those folks think has to remain in the setting will instead...

There was no buzz online when the original Spelljammer and Dark Sun were released either. ;)

But you're not going to get it. That's the point. As is the case with every updated setting, some things will get changed, they won't match what came before, and it'll piss (general) you off. It's not that hard. If (general) you love the setting in its original setting glory... there is...

Right. So you don't want the 5E version. Thus just not worry about it if it's getting written and don't bother reading it when it comes out. It isn't necessary and you already own the material you want and need. :)

No? Heh heh... not exactly sure where you were trying to go with that dig, but it doesn't make no sense to me!

If you complain about X on boards like this and other people's responses are "Do Y instead"... you just have to deal with that. If that annoys you... don't complain about X here on the boards. Being on a message board does not grant you the ability to rant without responses from other people...

Yeah, except that if that sort of reasonable response was going to be the norm, we wouldn't have so many people freaking out about how WotC is going to "screw it up" already. ;)