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As I have portrayed archfey in the past is that they’re mainly motivated by two things: their own amusement and social standing. And an archfey’s esoteric sense of humour is so alien and incomprehensible to mere mortals, and the social mechanics of the fey world are so complicated and...

Yeah, I would say that the vast majority of my DCs are 15

10 is for easy tasks, 15 is the default, 20 is for hard tasks Occasionally, I'll throw out a 25 if the PCs want to do something I figure is doable, but slim chance. I never initiate such rolls, though. I'm sure I've thrown out a 30 sometime, but I don't remember when. And I will also...

In general, I use 10 / 15 / 20, with the occasional 5 or 25

Skimming this thread, I see a lot of talk of taking this race or that race for the mechanical benefits, but I've not seen this behaviour at my table since 3e. This used to bug me back then, I've always felt that you should then commit to roleplaying your race as something distinct from a human...

It's always so interesting to see data like that and how it can feel like you're living in some alternate reality to others. In my personal experience, halflings are the most popular D&D race and by a margin, followed by (to my frustration) elves and then humans (by default). Tieflings have...

I see it with the Warforged (they're robots/golems and I like them), and I can kinda see it for Yuan Ti as generic "snake people" if you squint hard enough, but my main issue with a lot of the races is that they are too unique to D&D or when adapted to D&D they were given too much of a spin...

My point is that to me, they don't offer much. For example, I don't really have much an issue with a lot of "monstrous" races. When I first threw a goblin in front of my players, they knew what a goblin was immediately from context outside of D&D. A "goblin" required no explanation. This is...

It's pretty bad.

Clone Wars definitively took a couple of seasons to find it's groove. It's Star Wars to it's core, though, overall uneven but when it gets it right it's pure magic.

I'm in the camp that doesn't really get it, but for me it's more about archetypes: To me, a big appeal of playing D&D is how archetypal everything is. If I play a Dwarf, I either want to really embrace the dwarfish archetype or I want to subvert it somehow. For a lot of the more "weird" races...

The first thing that comes to mind is the Godfather trilogy. I can see that they are expertly crafted movies, but I just don't like them. I don't like a lot of mobster movies. I couldn't make it through the Sopranos either and I just get irritated thinking about Scarface.

Well, on the topic of sidekicks: From here: How to Play Sidekicks Like Heroes in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything

Yeah, if it's long-winded.

I liked some of the early PA/PvP ones, but they were mostly played to be funny and didn't rack up to weeks of play time. I also really liked HarmonQuest, which again is played for laughs (and mercifully edited). I've found a few over the years that I've liked (both jokey and non-jokey) — there...