Recent content by Incenjucar

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...

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...

Unless that shape is very low magic, low flight, low underdark, and also the dragons on the maps are real and hate tourists...

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.

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...

Really, who truly has the perspective of living in a world of magic, should remove that from the game.

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...

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

4E epic was delightful except that it was half gap levels, so it was really 5 levels instead of 10.

Setting player expectations is important. I play mostly in sanctioned games, which means the GMs can't really modify anything anyways. I'm still able to lay out some character lore, but I'm playing those characters in the current situation. My rogue/bard burlesque saloon performer who worships a...

I generally use the Venture Brothers as my model, which is a good 80% comedy but with enough drama to make things hurt. In general it's good to set tone expectations, and the DM can enforce a lot of it with the nature of consequences.

There is quite a spectrum, which is much of the fun of the game. The goofy moments are often what allow the serious moments to hit - you don't cry harder than for the characters who make you laugh.

Generally the DM only needs to actively weave in PC backgrounds a few times per PC over the course of the campaign unless they want to make the campaign heavily about the PCs. If you're just running a module or something you can sprinkle in "Hoy you like a bit like the duke but hawww that's a...

The dates for the wild west era and larger-scale Japanese immigration actually check out, or do you mean strictly "Spaghetti Western"? Also the irony of western films based in samurai movies

Humanoids Handbook is 2E, as are Planescape and Dark Sun. D&D's greatest competition was a system full of vampire and werewolf PCs. This has all been common for longer than most 5E players have been alive.