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This is how I feel about every piece of flavor text ever. So I'd read it inwardly myself and then play it out naturally. Or just say "Lord Neverember summons you to an audience where he tells you that he wants you to look into kidnapped citizens" and then roleplay him when they ask questions.

This post pretty much says it all. You did a much better job here, IMO, of saying what I've been trying to. Thanks!

Sorry, you are correct, I used the wrong word. They are related, though - in that a zealot is zealous. Either way, I think that it is a strong characterization of anyone's posts. Maybe. I'm not sure that's it I do not mean to "tone police". You are free to do what you like. I just think that...

I just thought it was a funny and clever take on what the character's front might look like...

No, it's just your posts that I often don't understand for whatever reason. I don't mean that as much of a criticism, and I don't ever mean to look like I'm "shaking a finger" at anyone. I'm not some sort of authority on anything (except maybe if we're talking about selling D&D, I think I could...

I'm with you - I think rolling dice is fun, and I don't understand this "fear" around it that is spoken of a lot around here. I think FAILURE is fun - it's especially fun when it's a "fail-forward" type thing, but it can be fun as just failure, here-and-there, in particular when it allows...

Yes, that part I get. Ah, you see... I don't think that 99.9% of the people defending the background features mean that they should work 100% of the time. They are arguing that it's not hard to make them work significantly more of the time than those that shut them down because they are...

This is something that happens a LOT, I'm afraid - I don't understand what you are saying to me. What is it that you want me to acknowledge?

That, and Belgium is not a City.

I was speaking about how you generally refer to the DM/Player dynamic, not just your recent posts on this thread, and I apologized for two reasons: 1) I felt that you might not enjoy being called out, or being characterized in a certain way; And 2) I'm Canadian.

I agree. Do you know what makes for a better character sheet? The MONSTER stat-block. Oddly enough, I don't like it very much for monsters! I honestly don't think that it would take much to make the font bigger, fit everything (other than spells) on one sheet of paper. I think that, because...

Extremes are just how internet arguments read - whether they are intentionally written to mean the extreme or not. Your posts make it sound like all DMs are vicious tyrants, and @tetrasodium's posts (for example, sorry to call you out like this Tetra!) sound like all Players are entitled...

The great eagle took off and the giant returned to the flying castle. Fifteen minutes passed in nervous anticipation, and then a giant strolled into view along the trail from the direction of the steading. He was tall - much taller than the hill giants - and his silver-blue hair was cropped...

I've taken the time to give us an overhaul of our character icons on the map. For some reason they seem to have been deteriorating over the years. So instead of this: We now have this:

The eagle, a bird so massive that it boggled the mind, shifted back and forth from one taloned foot to the other, as if it hated standing on the ground and wished to take to the sky once more. The group looked around at each other, waiting to see who would step forth to speak first while...

Certainly if a player were to try to book passage on a ship, using their background or not, I'd say a few lines about the ship, its crew, the docks, and the basics of the discussion. I may or may not speak in first (though probably third) person, I may or may not give the captain (or whoever) or...

Weird. I meant to quote @Hussar, and thought that I had. The strangest part, is that I even looked at his specific wording when writing that reply. If I was somehow quoting you, how did I even do that?