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This entire thread may be answered this fall. Log Horizon is about like .//hack, SAO, D&D cartoons, and some others. People get trapped in a game world after an update in its 11th year. NPCs, called People of the LAnd, and the trapped players, called Adventurers. Well damned if one of the NPCs w...

Seriously: Adventurer. Conqueror. King. In that order. All of the adventures you described above go: Adventurer. It's certainly been my experience that most modules (even adventure paths) go: Slay Monsters. The End. Frank jsut doesn't understand adventure modules/paths. He thinks they are the root ...

Being similar in every edition, this question about "Why isn't X just killed off so it isn't a threat anymore?" is answered in 1st edition. They exist in stasis in the gamebooks. Neither alive, nor dead, just available. As a group and also a a DM the players decide what monsters exist and ...

How about consider what you have been told time and again like many others. these adventures you pick out to try to claim IS D&D, is nothing more than a quick thing thrown together to sell an adventure to people that don't have time to make one of their own. it is NOT an example of the ONEWAY t...

DSMatticus wrote:Quick, shadzar - save us! Say something about THAC0!

bab and the d20 system is really THAC(10) in disguise. how is that?

D&D before 3rd edition was a clusterfuck of mixed roll types and incentives. For attribute checks, you want a high attribute and a low roll. Meanwhile attack rolls and saving throws demand low THAC0/Save numbers and high rolls. Bonuses to attribute rolls are represented as negative numbers whil...

D&D is not a video game, and it shouldn't be treated like one. Putting people in the mind set that every NPC you meat meet is just getting loaded in when they come into site is bad for the game. The problem is that is what they think people want still, just MMO mobs to fight. the player entitle...

Because its supposed to be like the launch of 2nd and 3rd edition where the books where staggered to help FLGS sales. I think it is more to do with the D&D team hanging onto their jobs for an extra 2 months. If they release it all at once, then people will find out how big a pile of crap it is,...

Surgo wrote:To bring this back on topic, what's the current status of 5E? Haven't been following any news, can anyone sum it up?

Starter Set online as PDF/digital in JulY. PHB in stores in July, DMG in stores in August,. MM in stores in September?

that is the status.

Actually, "adventure of the week" is not a bad way to play D&D, or even think of D&D. As other people have said, if you try and assume that the rules really allow for a persistant world to be created where the rules are the physics of the world it will crumble to dust. D&D doe...

I get that this is all anecdotal, but retail is not thinking this is a big launch. They are not geared up the same way there were for the 4E release. there is 2 types of customer: -more money than brains -more brains and less money the people the edition treamill catrs to is the more moeny than bra...

In the interest of "rules transparency" that people love today, where is the cap and when does the DM tell it to you since 2000? 3rd edition D&D didn't cap AC if the left-handed can do things just as well as the right-handed, then why should a southpaw have to do things right-handed? ...

yes BAB is THACO just with AC going up not down, and a limit to AC @ around -12. Some people have no need for ascending AC jsut for the sake of bigger numbers, because math works in both systems as they are the same. You don't need descending AC to have a hard cap. There's nothing wrong with saying...

Isn't THACO mathematically equivalent to the system in 3e and 4e, just with the numbers expressed in a confusing way? Yes. The only argument I've ever heard to keep it that wasn't "I love the 80's" was "It keeps people who are dumb from playing the game". This is not a good argu...

corrupt government that ignores its people and only serves and protects its most wealthy and its merchants while enslave the common man to a life of servitude just to be able to live in the city of Cantor.

Josh_Kablack wrote:I find these the most helpful for getting the D&D spirit.

not quite as they wouldn't hold enough mead.

claw/claw/bite isnt meant to simulate realism, but compared to 1e character to show just how much more powerful a create with it is, and that animals don't always follow trained weapon fighting styles or the Art of War.

shadzar: A setting book sounds like a good idea. I think I'll start with Greyhawk as I think that's the most vanilla. As to Tolkien, while Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D with the latter rising from the former, the two are now so estranged that to reunite them wou...

weapons are one size for all, no giant sized axes for giants, or halfling sized mauls.

jsut read any of the 2nd edition setings books. they will be many world with many changes. throw in a read of eBerron and you have another look. rad LotR to see where the foundation of D&D came from. Basically D&D is derived from Tolkien jsut like any fantasy entertainment. you have medieval...

. http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ex/20140612 . http://media.wizards.com/images/dnd/products/Starter_Ex3_Spell.jpg Full Metal Alchemist & Dragons huh? Here they go overusing a thesaurus again and trying to follow anime naming and word use to change the alteration school to Edward ...

q-tip and hydrogen peroxide will help break up wax buildup, but then leave not much left to help an infection. you need to go to the drop store and get some ear drops really. until then try to use a cotton ball outside your ear with some sports tape or medical tape or whatever it is called if you ar...

to borrow from Log Horizon (paraphrased): Akihabara is where we live and what we make of it. Do we like how it is now? The event that happen are just reaction and are not really laws. I propose we make laws ourselves to bind us to each other together as a people. so the patriotism of the people will...

the more i think of him i wouldn't even call Gandalf an entity but rather a part of "God" that he separated to do some specific tasks. dont recall much about his race except that the 5 were sent to Middle Earth to do some things to promote the wanted path for the world. I would consider th...

While that would be a good thing to do even for those of us that dislike this "damage type" kind of crap. It looks like a lit torch is the ONLY torch that can do damage. like the flask of oil can do damage, but neither of the lanterns can. this is 1E level fuck up in descriptions and confu...