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Sure does. I think that may be the very same shirt in the color photo!

I think it might be … but I don’t know how to contact him to ask.

In 1982, my author mom dragged my brother and I (I was 12) to the American Bookseller's Association convention in Anaheim, CA. While there, we were thrilled to discover that the company that published the game we were quickly learning to love was demoing it! I stumbled on a few photos from the...

Effect - Web can restrain characters who move into the area after it has been cast. Entangle can only restrain characters caught in the area of effect on the turn the spell is cast, not those who move in later. (Those who move in later must cope with difficult terrain in both cases.) Web has...

Hm, that's not what I said. I'm interested in the idea of what rules a player who herself wants to facilitate smoother play (which benefits everyone at the table) should learn, and what priorities there might be with regard to which rules are more important. I don't think I mentioned anything as...

I don't think that's been missed. That's how I usually run things, and it's even in the rules. ("Improvised actions," which I mentioned.) It I really do think knowing the official actions can be a benefit to to players—by suggesting tactical options they may not consider, inspiring even more...

I really do get this perspective. Or a modified "those at the table who know the rules know them, and those who aren't interested don't need to." I like it as an ideal. But I have personally run into two problems: 1. the player who doesn't now ultra-fundamentals like which die is which or who...

I tend to describe my preferred style as "Character-driven collaborative storytelling orientation on an action-adventure background." That is, I like to wind up with a comprehensible adventure story, with the players' characters as major protagonists. D&D 5e offers a lot of tools to make this...

Aren't there? Attack, Cast a Spell, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Help, Hide, Ready, Search, Use an Object. I guess it depends on how you count. For example, I've never, ever seen someone Search during combat, but I have seen people do things not on that list. Seems like Search would be covered by...

Perhaps I should say that I tend to be quite accommodating of this as well. As I mentioned in the post, the game is welcoming, and I want to be welcoming, too! Different players DO engage differently, and that's fine. This wasn't meant to be a gripe about a type of players. Instead, I am...

Hear hear! That's rule zero, really, isn't it?

"Wait, which one is the d8 again?” “What do I have to roll to make an Investigation check?” “I rolled a 5 damage.” “Did you add your Strength bonus?” “What’s a Strength bonus?" — 5e is a very welcoming game! With so many available pre-generated characters, a new player can sit down at a...

Hi, all! Jan here. I've been playing since the days when we had to cut "chits" out of paper if we couldn't find polyhedral dice in our local stores (and I was somewhere with no local stores)! So glad that modern tech and creatively improved systems make it easy to pursue this hobby passionately...