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So, Matt Colville posted a video on adventures, their length, and individual adventures vs campaign-length ones: The Cliff's Notes version: The preponderance of big campaign-length adventures like Curse of Strahd (which, for the sake of brevity, I'll call Epics) is bad for the hobby, and...

One issue I have with D&D and many of its descendants is that the default method of character creation is designed to create young, inexperienced characters who get threatened by something like a giant rat or a bandit. Some people argue that you need to start low in order to have a proper...

I figure we could use a palate cleanser. So, how about alignment? Do you prefer the classic nine, the 4e five, or something else? What about Chaotic Neutral – 1e/2e's random wackiness or 3e/5e's anarchist?

It seems a new D&D-based board game was spotted in preview form at GAMA, called D&D Onslaught. Or at least Spikey Bits had a short blurb about it: New D&D Onslaught Miniatures Game Spotted at GAMA - Spikey Bits This is the first I've heard of it. Anyone else?

The checkboxes for polls in dark mode are almost impossible to see: Would it be possible to make those a little brighter, and perhaps have the inside of the checkbox be a little brighter than the background?

I had a distinct memory of having seen a particular letter in one of the magazines in my gaming club back in the day, so I decided to do some research and managed to find it in White Wolf Magazine #28. I figure it might be of historical interest to some. This was written in response to an...

My gaming group has had a group on Facebook for quite a while. It's been mostly practical, seeing as Facebook has been pretty ubiquitous. But as of late, some of the players have expressed a desire to get off Facebook for various reasons, and I can't really fault them for that seeing as...

Yes. It happened. Matt Mercer went to New York to play some D&D with Stephen Colbert for Red Nose Day, a charity thing for ending child poverty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3658C2y4LlA Stephen seems to have enjoyed it.

So, I'm currently running Princes of the Apocalypse. We're maybe a third through it so far, so its end is likely fairly far into the future, but I like to plan ahead so I can let ideas stew in my mind for a bit. Right now, I have this vague idea that I want the next campaign to feature some...

In the AMA, Mearls hinted pretty heavily that we'd see some sort of branching out to different settings over the course of 2018. This gave me an idea for a thing I'd very much like to see in a setting-focused book, assuming there's enough space: new backgrounds. The backgrounds in the PHB are...

With the integration of Star Wars/Star Trek RPG-related questions in the General RPG forum, the link to the forum at the top of the right-hand sidebar is broken. It goes to a page (http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?531-Star-Wars-Gaming-%28-Trek%29) that gives the error message...

I've noticed that it's often hard for PCs to take a short rest, since doing so takes about an hour. Either things are too busy to rest at all, or they're quiet enough that they can just as well take a short rest. If my group had had access to rope trick, things might have been different, but...

While I think 5e on the whole is a lot better than 4e, it is somewhat lacking in the monster department. There are three main things I think 4e did better with monsters: 1. Ramping up humanoids. In 5e, pretty much every natural humanoid monster is an appropriate monster for 1st level characters...

I'm thinking about using the Dawn War (aka the 4e) pantheon for a homebrew. Were there ever any good information sources on these released, other than the extremely skimpy information in the 4e PHB/DMG? I saw that there was a bit more in Divine Power, but that seemed to be more about "these...

Since half of Vox Machina fought a rakshasa last episode, I took a closer look at the monster... and found it pretty underwhelming. I mean, it's sneaky as heck, and pretty tough with its immunity to non-magical weapons as well as any spell of 6th level or lower. But it has a pretty glaring...

Hello, I am unable to read the article at http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?2497-Wheaton-s-Game-Putting-Together-The-Clues! . When I try, Chrome starts rendering the page and then immediately throws up an "Aw snap, something went wrong" error message. I do not get the same error on other...

I have just uploaded Bardificer - An Eberron-style Artificer based on the Bard class to the downloads area. Like many others, I was not happy with the artificer-as-wizard-tradition offered by Wizards of the Coast, because I thought it was too far off what the Eberron artificer was in 3e. So I...

I've been giving this some thought, and this is what I've come up with. I'd love to see a product featuring the following: * A central town acting as a base for adventurers. * The surrounding area described in quite a lot of detail, in a radius of maybe 50 miles (about 2 days' travel, more in...

Probably Dragonlance. Does Greyhawk have any particular crunchy player bits that aren't covered by the PHB already?

So, the PHB has been out for 5-6 months or so by now. What are some of the more common rules mistakes/misconceptions/questions that have come up in that time? I'll start with some: * You can't combine casting a spell as a bonus action with casting another spell in the same round, unless the...