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Nostalgic? I was updating the compiled and cleaned up PDFs of my old story hour, re-telling the events of my "Out of the Frying Pan" D&D 3E campaign that I ran from 2001 to 2006. I know it is not for everyone, but the fact that anyone still reads and enjoys it all these years later is icing on...

Bumping to say that the compiled PDFs have been re-edited and cleaned up and are available for download in the first post of this thread.

I just edited a 22-year-old thread. I also edited a 20-year-old one and one that was a much younger 19-year-old thread.

I'm with whoever said that they just run with old theories and ideas about how the world works. So for example, there are no "germs" in my D&D world - but work with the miasma theory that holds "that disease originated from particles emanating from decomposing matter, such as that in sewage or...

In general I find endings to be overvalued (I actually write about this some in my scholarly work), so for me and my groups even an ideal "ending" is just when we feel like moving on because I start most campaigns with the idea that it is "indefinite," which is to say, it will continue "forever"...

Assuming TPKs don’t count as “finishing a campaign,” then two as DM and none as a player in 41 years.

Hell (called the Stem of Hell) is actually inside the Abyss. It is a fortress of infernal order in the abyssal chaos. Devils are just demons that accept the diabolical hierarchy, while demons reject all authority save that of immediate power.

My biggest takeaway is that I want to try the optional rule where characters auto succeed at any skill check with a DC of their relevant ability score minus 5 or less

I got 18 of 20!

I feel like Instagram ads are trolling me.

The way I run it is Perception when only using sight (or perhaps hearing and smell as well) but investigation when touching, probing in addition to sight. With different traps having different DCs based on the approach to finding it. The again, I ask players to describe how they are looking and...

With nothing but anecdotal data to go from based on the community of mini painters and terrain makers I am a part of on Instagram, minis and terrain seem to be doing fine though ironically probably some drop off post pandemic.

Does DnDBeyond have a functIon that chooses appropriate spells for you? Because that’s the part that based on the OP or my own experience cannot be done in five minutes unless you are going totally random or have an eidetic memory.

The lack of bases for medium creatures doesn’t bother me personally because I have so many. But when it comes to small, large, or huge bases I am reminded of how mercenary it is to not include them.

Do my "Orc-Born" count as "re-loring?" This lineage replaces “Half-Orc” in the 5E Player’s Handbook. No one has seen an actual orc in millennia, and according to legend they were exterminated in wars against the so-called “Free Peoples.” According to these legends, orcs were a savage and evil...

Goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears are three sexes of the same species. Traditionally, all goblins are male, all hobgoblins are female, and bugbears are non-binary but in a traditional set-up are nursemaids and guardians (since hobgoblins don’t nurse their children). Edit: I said “traditionally”...

while my own personal experience does not invalidate the reasonable question of why minis themed for a book or adventure are not timed to release close to one another, I will say that I don’t think I have actually used an adventure book within 6 months of getting it.