gaming used to be great

See if you just made it a full chainmail hauberk and coif I wouldn't have blinked and even said it was an improvement Chainmail burka goes weirdly hard though

When should a natural 20 actually matter outside combat?

What’s something you love about Ravenloft?

What is the worst loot ever?

What lesson did Conan actually learn from the Riddle of Steel?

Is it still a pet if your dragon can speak, negotiate, and threaten your family?

The most famous cover in old school D&D was drawn by a man who later drove a taxi in Carbondale, Illinois. Dave Trampier did the Player’s Handbook cover. Adventurers prying open that stone lid. Treasure spilling out. That image is burned into more brains than almost anything TSR ever printed. He filled the Monster Manual. He drew Tomb of Horrors. He spent eleven years on Wormy in Dragon. Then he tried to collect his own strip into a book. TSR said the strips were theirs. He said they were his. The collection never happened. Checks started coming back unopened. In 1988, mid story, Wormy just stopped. People assumed he was dead. He wasn’t. A student reporter found him driving a Yellow Cab in 2002. He asked people to lose his number. He wanted nothing to do with the company that had used his work and then told him he didn’t own it. In 2014 he finally agreed to show original art at a small Illinois convention. He died three weeks before it. The cover that taught a generation what “finding the treasure” looked like was made by a guy TSR pushed far enough that he walked away from all of it. What’s the first Trampier piece that stopped you cold?

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If your biggest complaint about D&D 2024 is that characters get too many fun abilities, you might be the guy at the pizza party asking who authorized toppings.

ゴーグルは何も役に立たない

Let me give you something to think about

sometimes it’s fun to save a princess

Gimli’s kill-count rivalry with Legolas is more fun than most modern fantasy action scenes.