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So, the Sci Fi & Fantasy stack exchange shuffles old questions to the top sometimes, and last week I saw this one (from 2013): Why are AI systems almost always feminine?. It attracted a range of answers but the consensus seemed to be that there was no clear gender bias in the genders of AIs in...

We've bounced this idea around before in our group, but some of the Kotaku team apparently tried it: an all-bard party: https://kotaku.com/my-all-bard-dungeons-dragons-session-went-up-in-glori-1822930147 Now it sounds like they made a bit of a mess of it (possibly not helped by a fairly...

In my campaign the PCs are searching for a group of missing villagers. The villagers have actually entered some local caves and been captured by a tribe of evil humanoids who have just moved into the area and are going to try to auction them as slaves. However, I'm struggling to think of a...

My players are currently in the middle of a festival in Triboar. In the next session I will be running a 'bard-off'; round 1 will be recitals, round 2 will be a dance off and round 3 will be a limerick competition. Unfortunately, I've been a bit under the weather and have had less time than I...

Something that's bothered me for a while is that societies in most D&D settings don't really reflect the natural laws that govern their reality. I'm not entirely sure what happens in a world where people can recover from most wounds in a day and Raise Dead is a thing, but I'm pretty sure it's...

Is there any connection between these two artifacts? I'm running Storm King's Thunder at the moment and it seems odd to me that the the frost giants' plot hinges on the former and not the latter, since otherwise they sound thematically pretty similar and the second is (a) an artifact of giant...

(anyone playing D&D via a Meetup group in Surrey please stop reading now, by the way). Does Maegera seem a little underpowered in Storm King's Thunder, or is it just me? I'm not too well up on the lore around primordials (I only started 5e recently; before that I'd only played 2e) but I was...

I'm currently running Storm King's Thunder and it occurs to me that the Kraken Society could be replaced with (effectively) a Cthulhu cult, with the serial numbers filed off, without changing much (an ancient and terrible evil lurks beneath the waves but psychically manipulates the surface...

I haven't played Call of Cthulhu since the late 1990s, but still have most of my old 5e books. Could someone who has played 5e and 7e let me know what the major differences are, whether they found 7e an improvement over 5e, and how cross-compatible the editions are? If you can also recommend a...

That's the opening of the Critical Hits review of SKT, and I have to admit it touches a nerve. We started our campaign with "Temple of the Nightbringers" by M T Black, which was recommended somewhere (possibly on here) as a good introduction for players new to D&D. It went well. However, it...

WARNING: Spoilers for Storm King's Thunder below (I'm afraid I haven't worked out yet how to format spoilers on this forum; advice on this appreciated). Iymrith's plan in SKT, as presented, is to trigger a war between the giants and the 'small folk', particularly the Lord's Alliance, thereby...

I'm in a 9th-level 5e campaign and the DM has given us the chance to change characters in a few sessions. Although we're having great fun I've had more near-death experiences than every other character put together, and (for reasons) *any* magic is currently extremely unreliable in this...