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Just showed him both. Gold dragons are his thing ... and he wants the regular one. (I will be on the look out for this special one for me I guess!)

I wonder if they're trying to head towards "check off all the groups of countries your ancestors were from several hundred years ago (if we ignore that some country borders changed a lot, the populations of several countries largely became mixtures of two or more in that time span, you might not...

The newest revisions to US federal standard SPD 15 (effective 28 Mar 2024) for data of this type when collected by the US government is now about "race and/or ethnicity" and mandates allowing multiple check boxes. The particular categories can be found by searching for figures at Federal...

Taking a brief break from the Continental Op to read the "Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons" from MIT Press. I'm putting my review as I go over at: D&D General - Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons, collection of essays published by MIT Press

Ongoing review part II - Chapters 6-10: Ch.6 - Iantorno interviews Dancey on the OGL. I'm not sure if there is tons new here that we haven't heard before, but it was a solid interview with long answers from Dancey, and it's very nice to have it all in one place. I wish there could have been a...

I can imagine my son will shortly be figuring out how to get one...

The Dancey interview about the OGL in the new "Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons" (MIT Press) makes the point that he believed the biggest competitor they had (when planning 3rd edition) was previous editions of D&D. And that second edition struggled in part because it didn't get as many 1e...

I find it much easier to just skim past posts I find at least vaguely plausible than the ones I think are wholly ill-conceived. And even those don't bother me tons if it is just once in a while. But when it feels like it is thread after thread after thread of things that make me go WTF...

Looks like it was part of one of the regular library displays (and they brought in Octavia E. Butler). A lot of the books don't look like they were part of the regular collection though (at least according to the catalog), so not sure where they all came from. [Edit: I suspect they have a...

In regards to my own question. The chapter on Holmes Basic in the new "Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons" talks about how D&D spread in California in large part through SCA and science fiction clubs. And that "Southern California supported a strong speculative fiction fan community through the...

I assume your "less regimented character advancement" is in relation to 4e... but it really threw me since the list started with 1e and 2e. :-)

So far the psionics not being commonly used is leading by a lot. (9 used it in roughly 1/2 or more campaigns, 10 used it in a few campaigns, and 33 just a few times or never). Also, people who didn't play 1e are apparently very likely to be angry and non-communicative. ;-)

To be fair, we also offer stupid answers if the questions are good.

My aphantasia is crushing me on this one because I can't conjure up a clear image in my head of many of them. The silver one (that was released a while ago) reminds me of one of the MtG ones though. The others they've revealed seem fine to me so far. Have they been consistent from 1e - B/X -...

Ongoing review part I - Chapters 1-5: Ch.1 - The introduction is fine for an introduction. I really like all of the references to previous books, articles, and news stories here and throughout. (Do many people "dial in" to things online for gaming, or does that date the author?) The new...

Could be, but I'm guessing others read it differently... PHB: "If your DM opts to include..." DMG: "If you opt to include..." DMG section on Gamma World cross-overs: "Unless AD&D psionic abilities are present..."

I was going to say that was the "for the most part", but holy cow do I always forget how many of them there were!