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A D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set has been announced as one of the world's largest pencil-and-paper role-playing games celebrates not one but two anniversaries: it's been 45 years since the release of the original Dungeons & Dragons and five years since the release of Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition.
Upon its announcement Franchise VP Nathan Stewart had the following to say:
When the D&D team realized the sapphire is the traditional anniversary stone for both five years and forty-five years, and that adding a laboratory-created sapphire to a twenty-sided die wouldn't jeopardize the integrity of a roll, we couldn't pass up the chance to make something really cool to celebrate the milestones, the team put together a fun product for our fans that includes art and newly updated stats for sapphire dragons, making these classic dragons ready for play in your next D&D session.
For the enthusiast with $299.99 to spare!
Source: https://techraptor.net/tabletop/news/dd-sapphire-anniversary-dice-set-celebrates-25-years-in-style
(Score: 1) by Jay on Friday November 15 2019, @07:55PM
As others have noted, try 5E. I was in your shoes as well, until I visited a long lost group of gaming friends and sat in on a session. I was shocked because I never thought they would be the type.
Turns out I was wrong, and it is great.
5E gets the hell out of the way and lets you play. It lets DMs DM without looking things up most of the time. It vastly simplifies the rules for letting players do abstract things, allowing for insanely creative attempts at glory.
I had a player on a horse who wanted to ride past the wizard, grab him, and toss him onto a tree branch out of harm's way. No book needed. No break to look shit up. DCs made up on the fly, dice rolled, wizard thrown headfirst into a branch, knocked unconscious, then back to the ground with a satisfying crunch. (The orcs lost a round due to incapacitating laughter.)
I'm not sure we would have even tried that in 3rd or 4th edition, because just figuring out the rules would have discouraged it, and would have stopped combat for 15 minutes.
5E really feels like it's somewhere between 2.5E and 3E, but with the lessons learned over the last 20 years guiding that improvement.