Recent content by tetrasodium

Those are all great examples of "I really wanted this $MechanicalThing can I use it and say xyz so it fits?". It's so much cleaner and less likely to be disruptively conflict brewing as the campaign goes on". Unfortunately the 5e trend has become one where players have been provided such a...

It was toxic then it's toxic now. D&d is a game with a division of roles with differing authority over fiction & place in the shared narrative all bound up in the randomness of the dice. There is no telling of a story and none of the individuals involved in play have enough authority over all...

That does not change the problem. In fact you are proving the point about being a disruption by not even engaging with the reason for the hypothetical concept being rejected. I said it before, I'll quote myself Part of character creation is making a character that fits the setting. If a...

Id say that by going higher fantasy higher power even more superheroic fantasy than the other way around that 5.0024 further emboldens players with a desire to go too far instead of fitting a setting when they sit down ready to channel wotc's decade of toxic "Tell Your Story" Mary Sue generating...

It doesn't matter. It was mentioned previously that the official setting in question that the particular player i mentioned was trying to totally rewrite in question was eberron. The easy context free example you just quoted used player trying to bring StarWars Jedi into a star trek game...

This came up because of an official setting that sells well in three and a half settings so far. The setting serves a different purpose than a PC backstory and while there is often a place for the player to fit a reasonably compatible backstory. There comes a point in a player ask where the gm...

Counterpoint. In a setting where lizard men goblins gnolls living constructs and a couple others have a notable place in the setting lore as people I'd prefer a hard restriction do the work of proactively fencing off those races that need a place carved out because I would much rather have...

It falls upon the player to figure out how to fit the setting not the gm how to build a gordian knot around 3-5pc backstories generated in isolation. I once had a player tell me that I should rewrite eberron's history surrounding the giant empire being caught magic/uplifted by dragons and...

Not only that, they can directly or abstractly describe actions their characters take. Im not sure if even be surprised about a 3int druid pc player saying their wild shaped druid mimes/gesticulates/scrawls in the dirt/interpretive dances a primer on advanced theoretical physics in base 2/base...

Don't you have a tenth or eleventh level 1-20 2024 game to prep your PC for?

Stickiness too. I'm tired of being told things like "up your gm game... run more interesting encounters... use tactics... Etc" like it's still 4e 3.x or even ad&d2e player options: combat and tactics grid combat where mooks can serve as a functional defensive line speed bump for ranged and...

And mine is that the tactical element that 5e threw out in the 5e exclusive "tradition" as you want to call it is their ability to provide effective & specialized function rather than being mediocre generalists but you were too excited to defend 5e on an irrelivant but of line drawing over if...

That was a big part of mmy original point before you started talking about a "tradition" that spans all of a single edition as reason not to support GMs as I described earlier. Are you posting with chatgpt? Maybe feed it a little more back and forth history then a single post if so?

Monsters are still fairly generalist despite stepping from mediocre at all to often generally functional I wouldn't call them specialists capable of working together to challenge specialist PCs given how much of that step can be exclusively attributed to the updated encounter building rules

They could, but I can't imagine there is a lot of demand for an overt Mary Sue/Gary Stu author self insert type setting. Having that setting be anything else would require gm tools to support the setting. Im not hostile to the idea, and even linked to those a couple pages back, but I expect...