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Well, Chaosmancer, since you only received a "your [sic] not worth the effort" as a response, I thought I would at least add a note saying that I thought this was a very considered response and you brought up excellent support from the history of D&D. Furthermore, I enjoyed reading this post and...

Those are both awesome. The cover of Xanather's Guide has always been a favorite of mine as well.

You are hitting at my bewilderment precisely, MN. The forums here thrive to the extent that there is fruitful discourse about ideas. "I hate it" or "it sucks" or "well, I guess I ain't buying those books" contributes nothing to any kind of conversation because there are no ideas involved. People...

Hats off to you for introducing so many people to the game, Clint. I have not been responsible for introducing so many new people to role-playing, but I have introduced a couple families to it and it is fun to do that...it feels life-affirming in a way.

Well, I would have to agree with Uni-the-Unicorn, Horwath. You may have intended it as some kind of assertion about the universal superiority of machines (given your potato harvester analogy), but -- to a reader like me -- it does not come off that way. Is there anyone who can out harvest a...

I started with the a combination of the 1981 Moldvay set and 1st edition AD&D. I transitioned fully into 1st AD&D for years as a player and then DMed 2nd edition AD&D. I played 4th edition D&D. I have both played and DMed 5th edition. I would unequivocally stay with 5th edition as my forever...

Thank you so much for sharing this, Big Zebra. I had not seen this and this is very interesting to me. (y)

Well, we can agree to disagree on that point...no biggie. Take care and have fun gaming!

Be of good cheer Chaosmancer my friend...it is excellent art! (y) ENWorld is filled with some eccentric folks. We are celebrating fifty years of Dungeons & Dragons, and there are multiple threads with intelligent people arguing about how many classes there should be...for a fifty year old...

Yo, Minigiant, I love you dude and your engineering-oriented, tinker-till-it-sparkles determination. But, "doom[ed] to failure"? Perhaps a little hyperbole there? Not trying to stifle communication and the free-flow of ideas on these boards...I love it!!! But, I wonder sometimes if people are...

Exactly, right?!? Finally all are armed up like a real dungeon-delving expedition!

I agree with you, Riley. Upon first seeing the image, it struck me that the point of the painting is precisely to be "way too busy"; to be over-the-top bonkers in fact, as if to suggest, "Yo, there are a sh*t ton of wacky monsters in here." The image on the back cover of the new book reinforces...

I contend that if this was selected as the cover art of any of the core rulebooks, it also would have been chewed up and spit out by the Internet peanut gallery. People may fire off a one-sentence post that reads something like, "This should have been the cover art," but I think that most are...

It is a terrific updating of the adventurers and I like it quite a bit...well done. But, honestly, the peanut gallery here on ENWorld and elsewhere all over the Internet would have eaten this up and spit it out if it was the cover. Not because it is not well done by any means, but for...reasons...

No kidding...and the 2nd edition AD&D Monstrous Compendium Volume One (there was no Monstrous Manual for four years).

By not reprinting monster and NPC stats from the MM, magic items from the DMG, etc., Wizards of the Coast wisely set itself up to be able to revise these elements in revised core books without having to revise the adventures (and campaign supplements). When DMing, I barely find it an...

Will this be the future of Dungeons & Dragons for its next fifty years I wonder: players will continue to be discussing how classes or some other aspect of the game system can be improved or redesigned in the year 2074 and beyond that? I find the discussion fascinating...but at what point do...

Hi Minigiant! This is not too different from the Sidekick PC classes the Expert, the Spellcaster, and the Warrior. As a player acquires more familiarity with the game, the PCs can transition to one of the thirteen classes. It works well and is a nice way to turn D&D into a beginner-friendly...

Or, perhaps both options? That way people could pick the option they prefer.

Well, I will weigh in here cautiously as I am not that committed -- merely thinking out loud: there is reasonable concern that the law of unintended consequences might make a new psionic system independent of the spell system possibly (especially in multi-classing situations) result in...