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There is a great detail of detail in character generation so every character can be a special snowflake. After each session everyone gets a participation trophy no matter what happened.

Interestingly little of this is true for me. 2E was the edition of my teens and early 20s. It is not my favorite. My favorite is 5E -- an edition which came out when I was almost 40! I admit I have a yen for 1990s music. I do not consider the 1990s to be the best movies. Fantasy movies...

Let's Read the 4E Monster Manual: lamia 5e returned the lamia to the attractive half-human/half-beast that it had been in 1E-3E (which is similar to the original Greek mythology origins). The scarab swarm was an interesting idea for a monster but why they called it a lamia seems nonsensical...

Weird that the day before this thread began, 4E appeared in my life again. Our current DM (running a 5E game) said he would like to take a mini-break and have someone else run for 2-3 sessions. One of the other players offered to run "lair assault" which I had never done. And then he said it...

Most times I didn't make a conscious decision to stop playing D&D. Usually the group I was in evaporated and I was too busy with other things to find another one. But there was one time I deliberately stepped away from D&D. This was in the dark days of the edition wars in the late 2000s. I...

I tend to see the inclusion of an ancestry in the PHB as the result of popularity rather than the cause of it. If it is in the PHB it was already resonating with D&D players and/or wider nerd culture.

Totally random comment -- Princess Peach was by far my favorite character in Super Mario 2 because of her ability to float in the air for 2 seconds. It more than made up for the fact she couldn't run and jump as well as the others.

I remember that in both campaigns the person whose rolls got picked was not mine. The first time we did this I remember one player rolling badly and his set of scores were disregarded immediately, lol.

We have five players. Most of the time we use point buy. But the last time we used this method the group voted for: 17, 16, 13, 12, 12, 11. The first time we did it the group voted for: 17, 15, 14, 13, 11, 10.

All the players roll a set of six stats and then the group votes on which set the entire party will use. That way everyone is using the same numbers but the arrangement of the stats is up to each individual player.

As an older gay gamer I don't think the prejudice against being a D&D player was as major as being LGBTQ during the 1990s. That said, being a gamer wasn't something I was completely open about back then either. The stigma was real. There were venues like my FLGS where it was fine to be open...

I am a late 40s gamer who first played D&D in 1986. I think it is critical that D&D adapt to the changing times. That is part of why the game has lasted 50 years. I have no desire for the game to be preserved as a fly-in-amber from my formative gaming years in the late 1980s and early 1990s...

1. Cleric 2. Sorcerer 3. Wizard 4. Warlock 5. Bard 6. Druid 7. Paladin 8. Fighter 9. Rogue 10. Barbarian 11. Ranger 12. Monk Numbers 9-12 are theorycrafting because I have never played them in 5E.

They might but I would not agree. I'd do the same for anyone in my party. It certainly doesn't compare to some of the evil acts you can commit in this game.

You can go that route but it is possible to appeal to him without doing that. I successfully romanced Astarion during a neutral-to-good playthrough. I accepted him after he told me that he was a vampire spawn, let him drink my blood and helped him kill the hunter who was after him. I also...