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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Bite pig in tent. -- I cast TWO rocks.
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    Justice Ramin Arman Promoted to Game Design Director of Dungeons & Dragons

    Pathfinder handles these and similarly difficult topics in their base game. There are fiends of self harm and trauma and one of the main deities is the goddess of kink complete with temples that double as sex clubs. When introducing a potentially difficult subject they put down a sidebar to...
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    Justice Ramin Arman Promoted to Game Design Director of Dungeons & Dragons

    As I have a fairly negative opinion on the Planescape book set, I am morbidly curious about what this means for the direction of the game. I do hope it goes well for the customers regardless of my perspective.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Oddly enough, I'm playing a gnome these days, albeit in Pathfinder, where species/ancestries get a lot of fun options. As a "chameleon gnome" I have color-changing hair, which gives me acces to stealth bonuses and an AOE feint, plus being a gnome let me get a familiar for cheap.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Gnomes are the ones traditionally left unplayed.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Dwarves basically need some trick that can come up in most combats without the DM's choices or character class being a factor, OR they need a big suite of passives that are DM-dependent.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Dwarves usually don't have a lot of actively useful features, and often come with drawbacks, so there's not much of a mechanical draw.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    I have a personal philosophy to never do in a game what I could do in real life, and to overall seek new experiences, so I will almost always try something new when given the chance. I will respect in others their preferences but if I do something too samey I will literally physically fall...
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Adventuring comes with all kinds of motives, including protecting your idyllic home life, tourism, curiosity, research, preaching, greed, wanting to be where the people are, persecution, a desire to taste all the things, barding it up with boss monsters, etc. There is not a Platonic ideal of...
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Unless that shape is very low magic, low flight, low underdark, and also the dragons on the maps are real and hate tourists...
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    D&D General Frustating Misunderstandings About Warlocks

    Communication solves this immediately. This is a social game, so it's an excellent chance to practice core social skills. There are certainly your indecisive Calvinball players but you'll need to work with them regardless.
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    D&D General Frustating Misunderstandings About Warlocks

    A good chunk of people have a hard time keeping RPG information sorted, even for just one character. YouTube entertainers are generally focused in very different skillsets and are dealing with time crunches for feeding the algorithm and a myriad of other distractions, including other RPGs, and...
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Really, who truly has the perspective of living in a world of magic, should remove that from the game.
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Being a person isn't being human. If we develop sapient AI or meet sapient aliens they will be people. I would expect "people means human" to be the offensive idea, along with the term "humanoid". Some sort of collective intelligence (arguably some kinds of deities) might arguably be different...
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    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    They're all people. Biology isn't even required.
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