Recent content by happyhermit

I have had a TON of fun with 5e, more than I ever would have expected in the years before I tried it. I introduced dozens of players to the hobby with it, ran an ongoing campaign with 4 generations of our family involved, it's been great. But... a lot of these recent changes are really eroding...

Lots of interesting opinions, wish I was able to post more on this. Unfortunately a lot of this thread has been about what alignment actually means when the question I was trying to get at is along the lines of; "Which definition of Lawful is more useful to people who find alignment useful?"...

There are two obvious interpretations for "Lawful" and I have often wondered which is more common. I usually think of it in terms of sticking to a code, that may or may not conform to the laws of any particular land, let alone the one a person is in. Almost akin to a spectrum of...

I mean, I LOVED the first season of Stranger Things, but the "mouth breather" thing made me a bit uncomfortable, because I know people who were mercilessly mocked for that exact thing (they had serious sinus problems). Doesn't mean I didn't love the show or that it's a "major issue", just not...

In what way is this a major issue? If literally anyone is concerned by something is it a major issue or is the threshold a dozen people, I have seen more outrage for almost every other tiny aspect of D&D than this, maybe I am missing it. For me, probably due to things I witnessed growing up, I...

There is a big difference between making fun of a thing (or a rule) and making fun of people who like a thing. There is also a big difference between making fun of people like yourself and making fun of people you disagree with. This definitely seems like they are making fun of a group of people...

Like pretty much everyone, I don't think D&D needs "evil", in other words of course it can function without it. IME though, it can be a super useful tool and I find myself "needing" it in order to maximize the fun in my games. It's funny that others have pointed to problems coming from newer...

Depends a lot on what kind of game you are running. If LMoP was a bit of a sandbox for you as opposed to fairly linear, then I have had good luck stealing stuff from books like Storm King's Thunder which has a pretty direct tie in and is in the same area. A lot of the adventures have pretty good...

Four generations playing together in ours, semi-regularly! I am happy about this :love:

Yeah, I spend a fair bit on ttrpgs, most of it not at all necessary to actual play but I have GM'ed for MANY people who never bought anything. A lot of people assume that everyone will think "It's the right thing to do" but IME very few people see it that way. I know I would never feel guilty...

I don't see anyone estimating it to be that low, maybe old numbers? The "Hobby game market" which excludes most board games that people have heard of, in the US and Canada is higher than 1.5B. Here are some recent numbers; Hobby Game Sales Over $2 Billion in 2020

RPGs are over 100 million now, not well under, and that's just USA+Canada. Tabletop in general is something like 5-10B.

Yes, sorry I didn't make it more clear but I thought Charlaquin had mentioned before that they resided in Canada as I do and was responding as much to this as what I quoted; Minimum wages in Canada are pretty much pegged to inflation/consumer index or they have increased even more than that in...

Where? Minimum wage in Quebec has gone up what, 30% since 2014? Alberta more like 50%.

The "economic tyranny of pseudo-novelty" that has stories changing and heard by multiple generations is sooo different from the old-as-humanity traditions of oral storytelling that had... people telling the same stories with subtle variations for many generations. It couldn't possibly be that...