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I just read the entry for Redcap in 13th Age Bestiary, and yeah...that entire write-up is money, top to bottom. Their powers, the description, the background, the plot hooks, and even their relationships with the Icons. Just awesome, inspiring stuff. It reminds me of Monster Overhaul, which is...

By far my favorite thing about 13a. Having cool monster abilities that trigger on certain rolls, such as a natural even roll or a natural 15+, leads to monsters that are more colorful and surprising but also easier to run as DM. The best of both worlds.

So the MILFs are all in Greyhawk? That explains why they were not actually "in my area".

Probably safe to say they don't want all your D&D Beyond books (except the new PHB) invalidated when it comes to this tool. That would really upset people.

"Most leading gamers claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys. But this didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme for his best selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up For 5e."

At long last, we have woken Dretchlor from the classic adventure Don't Wake Dretchlor

I'm not exactly answering the question, but I want to say it's a blast playing low-intelligence characters. One of the unsung benefits of random stats (as Crom intended) is that you can get wretched rolls, which opens up all kinds of roleplaying opportunities. If you've never played a barbarian...

This is really disappointing. I know that's not an insightful or deep observation, but still. Really disappointing.

"The original 1979 edition of Puppy-Kicking Racists Are The Heroes was a seminal publication in the history of Dungeons and Dragons. In order to ensure it's properly preserved, we've entered a licensing deal with the reanimated corpses of Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin, and the guy who shot Uncle Ben."...

Yes indeed. Anyone who thinks bigotry in the OSR space isn't a problem is in denial, frankly. Bill Webb was mentioned upthread; if you look at the postings on a certain prominent OSR website about his harassment incident, you'll find outright hatred toward Webb's accuser and statements like...

"...so you see, it's all an analogy for the way undesirables invade our society and steal our cultural treasures." (I'm so sorry for putting that thought into your head, even as a joke)

Well then, how could we put concrete Hope effects into 5e fairly easily? Probably the most obvious way is inspiration/rerolls. Could also be tied to recovery mechanichs like Arcane Recovery. Might be tied to short rests -- you have to spend Hope to recover, or maybe to take a short rest at...

I love that. With enemies that are unusually hard or easy to hit, there will be a little variance from 5%, but that strikes me as a feature not a bug. Nice work! Well, if "just play DH" were the final answer, there'd be no point in this discussion at all. Daggerheart is a great game and I...

I've thought of this myself, and I wonder how well it would work to replace the d20 with two d10s. Obviously that changes the flat slope to a bell curve, but that's not necessarily bad. It might be rough when fighting a monster with unusually high AC. We'd also need to figure out how to do crits...

Even Hall of Fame quarterbacks throw bad passes. I knew exactly what Draw Steel! was intended to be before that project even had a name, when it was just called MCDM RPG, and I was excited about it from the start. I know the name of Crows and all sorts of miscellaneous stuff about it, but don't...