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Favorite rules: XP for gold! I don't have to explain this to you folks. 5e-type advantage/disadvantage: it's clean, it's intuitive, and...

I'm now feeling a powerful autistic urge to break down gnolls into four subspecies based on these varieties of hyena.

Agreed. My system was less punishing comparatively - I'd start the player at the same level as everyone else, but they'd lose all their...

You're probably onto something there about light being an old-school way to restrict vision because the game's "technology" of the time...

Though a lot about light and vision since we left off this topic. Lights matters only if you remove darkvision. IRL, creatures that...

There should be a mechanical penalty for death or players will use the system if they have bad ability scores or the party finds they...

The explanation is simple: no girl-bosses in squeen fantasy-land. ;) Also this...

It's because these are chaotic evil hyenas, of course. They laugh and spit on the divine hyena hierarchy imposed by the Hyena Gods.

Very nice, I could use that. My beef with AD&D grappling rules, at the time and now, is that the die roll determines the maneuver. It...

It's because these are chaotic evil hyenas, of course. They laugh and spit on the divine hyena hierarchy imposed by the Hyena Gods.

@Commodore's kind review to my second (admittedly weak) Adventure Site Contest 3 entry review is up...

"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"

My group has learned not to leave dudes like that at our back. You need to free them and put them on the front line where they will...

Not all my thieves do it as it really depends on the character and his goals. And I usually don't hide what Im doing from the other...

D&D tapped into psychology in a stark way which has in recent decades been honed to a disgusting commercial weapon (mostly in video games).