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It's both. It's a situation in that the changes as escalating rapidly and you have to adjust. It's a setting in that the campaign is set during this rapidly escalating ice age, which means glaciers forming. Crops failing. Fairly primitive(I assume) peoples. Ice age animals to be encountered...

It was in the 1e Unearthed Arcana.

Wow! Through all of 1e I could never find a DM who allowed that method, including me! It was too broken. Do your players have to pick class first, or can they just rank the stats and pick a class after rolling?

My players like to play heroes, so this is how we do it. The players pick two stats to roll 5d6-2L, two stats to roll 4d6-L, and two stats to roll 3d6 straight up. The 5d6-2L tends to go in the main stats for the class. Barbarians commonly see strength and con for instance. The 4d6-L go in...

I understand what you're saying, but the Greyhawk countries and city states aren't generally as insular as that. The 1e Greyhawk boxed set gives populations of the various states. The March of Bissel has a population of 50,000 and Demi-Humans: Some. Githzerai would have been classified as...

The grass is always greener. 3e made the attempt at being precise and that led to other issues that folks complained about and wanted changed. We got 4e and 5e as a result. Personally, I find myself less frustrated by the natural language model, but more frustrated by the "We aren't going to...

Listen, if you want the books and the DM screen to be upside down, go for it! :P

That's what happens when you repress words by being away for so long.

Sure, but a lot of us are not taking the position that all other ways are invalid. You can't paint us all with the same broad brush here.

I was stunned when I read this, so I did a bit of poking around myself. Alphabet Soup is a metaphor for the abundance of abbreviations or acronyms that dates back to at least a far as FDR's alphabet soup of agencies of the New Deal. It also doesn't seem to necessarily be negatively used when...

Not just cheaper, but can include them! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/burgers-contain-rat-and-human-dna-study-finds-a7023661.html

Lemur puddles aren't something you want to step in.

They renamed it.

Ignorance doesn't grant that version more validity, and remember, I didn't say other versions were invalid. I said that they were less valid than the original. Most people don't know her version. Every version, including Karloff's, is open to dispute on whether or not it's truly Frankenstein...

Influenced by isn't the same as mostly copied, used the same name, and tried to pass off as the same thing. Ovid didn't create Frankenstein as far as I'm aware. And I suspect that Ovid would be rather surprised to hear anything at this point. Dead people generally have difficulty hearing...

Because an author's creation automatically has greater validity than anything anyone else can come up with. Mary Shelly created Frankenstein. She created the appearance, creation process, mental and physical prowess, etc. No one can rationally look at her Frankenstein and say, "That's not...

It wasn't intended as a defense.

Since you are talking about me, I'll respond. First, I don't have any issues with the site other than not being able to see threads from folks that have me blocked. This is new as of the beginning of this thread. Other than that those blocking me are almost entirely unnoticeable except for the...

In the early 2000s I was playing in a group that had a few guys in it that I had been playing with since 1984. One of the guys had a bunch of old minis including a loin cloth wearing ogre. One day we were in a fight with ogres and that figure fell forward. To our surprise that old lead figure...