Posts about the fifth edition of the original fantasy RPG
We didn’t have enough people to run Majestic Wilderlands today, so we yakked a bit about magic items and game design. One thing that came up was a rules variant, based on the “you got your GURPS in my D&D” concept. But not even really that. The basic philosophy was that of the OSR and…
Quickly – why focus on combat for my character study? Also quickly: because every D&D game I’ve played in has featured or focused on combat. It’s a staple of the genre, and has been since I started playing in the early 1980s. It’s not the end-all/be-all of RPGing, of course. Traps and other skill-based or…
I’ve written quite a bit on Paladins before: Have I been playing my paladin wrong? Spell Choices for the 4th-level paladin Mark Bludiell – 5e Paladin This time, though, and with the different rolls I am using for the exercise in comparative offensive ability, I decided to go a slightly different way. The key attributes…