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I would like to subscribe to your newsletter! 😅 I've been into lizard folk ever since this:

We probably have more than we need/use: Prime, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu, and Britbox. We also have Paramount+, but just for three months (so I can watch Star Trek: Strange New Worlds). We get D+, Max, and Hulu as a bundle, but we actually get Max free with our phone plan, too, which...

I think WOTC's dragonborn are "under-powered", in the sense that they don't have as many dragon-like features as I would like. I've been tempted to re-write the races/species, so that features evolve with age/level. This might allow for more features starting out, but maybe they'd be less...

I have no investment in FR per se, other than it's where most of WOTC's adventures take place there and my group has played through a numbe rof those. I've never read an FR novels and haven't played any D&D video games (which seem to mostly be set there as well)

I love this openess, and I'm going to bring this up with my group.

I'm familiar with Nimble and Shadowdark, and they are both very smartly done. What would you say are the strengths of Index Card RPG and 5 Torches Deep? I've heard of them, but have no experience with them.

So far so good!

To paraphrase Tolkien: maybe what's important isn't what's real, but what's important.

I guess my thinking is that it does me no harm to allow for the existence of ghosts (however defined) or fairies or whatever. I was raised to embrace reason and faith, but I also know that for some that sounds like nonsense, but I'm okay with that.

The uncertainty is exactly why I leave room for it.

I generally believe in believing in things (and people), so sure - why not ghosts? That sounds flippant, but I just like to allow room for things.

None. In 5E, so many classes have healing features that I simply don't bother.

I've never thought about this before, but it makes sense. The fleeting nature of treasure, and the curse of wanting treasure or power, are very S&S and very Tolkien. If also never thought of this before, but it's true. Some of the younger peoples don't know it, but for the longer-lived folks...

I didn't know what to think of her casting, but you hit the nail on the head. Her performance is the most charismatic of the four, by far.