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D&D worships at the altar of the HP god. Character death is very much part of the game. Many rules revolve around dying and death. Has...

Franchise model is how things worked from 2014 to 2020 or so. One group steered D&D and worked with licensees to set up their content...

I'll be gracious and assume that by "we've moved past that" you meant you and your group. Because otherwise it comes off as very...

I would argue if it doesn't happen it's not really roleplaying. What do you think playing a role is? In combat, my players will...

These terms are pretty foreign to me besides "sandbox" and since you are using it here I'm not sure it even means the same thing. In my...

You may have decided that D&D isn't a simulation game, that doesn't mean much. D&D draws a clear line - the DM controls the world, the...

I agree. If you look at the post I was replying to, it cited realism as justification for forced persuasion of a PC. I was just...

Normally no, but there are exceptions. Telling people what their character thinks or feels is one of them.

If you dislike D&D so much, why spend time on a D&D forum?

I was thinking worldwide. But I don't really care to nitpick. Sometimes an NPC can be persuaded, sometimes they can't.

Some of the 2014 races had a speed of 25, all of the updated races for 2024 have a speed of 30 but you don't have to use the updated...

Y'know what? I'm done having this conversation. It started back up again because I was curious what fail forward would look like if...

Let's not forget they explicitly did design a tie-in prequel adventure to BG3, but Larian took so long in development that their game...

Of course. Dice come into play more often than not with NPCs just not always.

Who's antagonistic? You mean the people who repeatedly state that while it doesn't work for them, if it works for you have fun? Or...