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As requested by @Autumnal, here are the (draft) cheat sheets I assembled for my upcoming Original D&D one-shot. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1efaWRd9oVCX_Aj6TVySIbBGtA41H0Pra Notes: These are based strictly on my understanding (and as needed, extrapolation) of the three books in the...

The first thread was looking for the most essential core monsters in D&D. The second thread was looking more broadly at how the core monster lineup has evolved. (And also an excuse to share this spreadsheet of core monsters.) This third thread is taking the opposite tack from the first: what...

Spinning out of this thread: https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-core-monster-lineup-across-all-editions.702634/ Years ago, I assembled some lists of every monster that had been in a core monster source for each edition of D&D. The sources in question being: 0e: The original boxed set Basic...

Years ago, just out of curiosity, I put together some lists of every appearance in every edition by a monster that was in a core D&D rulebook. One result was that I now had a list of the monsters that had been "core" in every single edition of the game. Meaning that they appeared in all of the...

To start out the New Year, thought I'd share a handful of YouTube channels I enjoy, but which also don't seem to get as much attention as they deserve. Arcade Music Tribute Covers of retro video game soundtracks, accompanied by some neat original music videos. Strange Brain Parts Reviews the...

https://renegadegamestudios.com/blog/renegade-game-studios-welcomes-heroscape-expanding-licensing-partnership-with-hasbro/ Curious to see how their plans differ from the failed Hasbro Pulse attempt at a revival. Good news, in any case!

Was about to post a review of Schwalb's 5E product Forbidden Knowledge today and was very confused when I couldn't find it... this was why. Kind of a shame, since his OGL 5E warlord was one of the better attempts out there. Technically this is fairly old news (9 January) but since I just...

Digging through 0E material, for reasons, and stumbled across this section which (apparently) talks about aquatic variants of other monsters: As near I can tell, just about nothing has been done with this idea since in official material. There were aquatic gnome and kobold variants in the 3.5...

Based off the tangent in this thread... if you play 5E, what's the primary method among members of your group for choosing ability scores at character creation? Mind, this isn't a question about what options you allow, it's about what options get chosen in practice. Although the poll allows for...

EDIT: Poll reworked at @Blue 's request, do not respond to this poll. Instead, go here: D&D 5E - How does your group determine ability scores? Based off the tangent in this thread... if you play 5E, what's the primary method among members of your group for choosing ability scores at character...

Out of curiosity, what would you consider the essential non-core sourcebooks for each edition of D&D? The general rules expansions, books of races and classes, and so forth that were considered key additions to the core game. This can be either general observations, or just for your own group...

Been looking through the rules of older editions, for reasons, and stumbled across this interesting section in the 1977 Holmes Basic Set: 1) There was originally going to be a witch class in AD&D? Wonder what that would have been like, especially in 1978? I imagine rather different than the...

Continuing from What is Strength? Original D&D Unlike Strength, Dexterity had a direct mechanical effect on combat from the very beginning: a Dex above 12 gave you a +1 to "fire any missile", while a 9 or lower gave you a -1. This effect applied to ranged attacks of all types, including...

Looking at comparing equivalent things from different editions, for reasons, and randomly decided to see what Strength actually meant in different editions. Original D&D Prime requisite for fighters, meaning that higher scores increase XP earned (by 5% or 10%), and lower scores decrease it (by...

For reasons, I'm trying to compile together some lists of all the official game-able things that have appeared in each edition, with sources: races, classes, monsters, magic items, spells, etc. Figured I'd share some of the lists I've found so far, in the hopes that a) others would find this...

Inspired by @Li Shenron's UA thread... what player-facing material from the Dungeon Master's Guild do you use in your games? I'll start: Most of the racial feats from Expanded Racial Feats Legendary Lineage background from 15 New Backgrounds The Dhampyr and Dread Gargoyle (both heavily...

In honor of the already legendary Flap Jack, I bring you Experiment #4: the flumph! Flumph Traits Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, your Intelligence or Wisdom score increases by 1, and your Strength score decreases by 2. [Remove the decrease if you wish.] Size. Your...

Experiment #1: Mind Flayer Experiment #2: Troll Now, Experiment #3, based on the ideas in this old blog post... dragon PCs. This was a wee bit more complicated than the first two. Feedback, as always, is welcome. Dragon Traits Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1, your...

One of my favorite things in comics back in the 1990s was Amalgam Comics, a short-lived mashup of the DC and Marvel Universes. (Marvel and DC have more recently done their own internal homages to the idea, Warp World and Earth 32, respectively.) So I was thinking, what would it be like to fuse...

Bullywugs are listed among the NPC traits in the 5E DMG. Bullywugs are also shown as an example of a sidekick character in Tasha's (the only example depicted that isn't already officially playable - unless you count the winged kobold). And they recently got more attention in Wild Beyond the...