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How dare you accuse me of using such methods as the bag of rats strategy, what do you take me for? i am of course using nothing less...

I once accidentally made an encounter slightly harder than intended when I by mistake added four Orcuses instead of four orcs.

I got to get college credit for taking a Science Fiction literature class in college. The prof's definition was basically "Science...

That's... a really good way to phrase that. Maybe "mythologize" is a better descriptor than romanticize. Not that SF is always about...

It's a bit of a tangent to good vs evil settings, but I've always liked the approach where most of the setting is 'unexplored'. You...

That's a rather particular definition of SF and not one I've encountered before in any discussion of what it means to be SF including...

...not quite sure what of what i said that deserved a laugh react here...

Have you tried the coin flip trick? Heads or Tails it and if you’re disappointed by the outcome you know you actually wanted it the...

My games tend to be more middle ground, leaning a bit towards hopeful. Sometimes I run despair, but that's uncommon. Perhaps...

while sailing, encountering ships and navigating storms and sea creatures are an essential part of making a pirate/naval campaign a...

Naval combat doesn't need to be center focus and main theme, but players in pirate campaign usually expect at least some action on the...

Tolkien believed in both. My main point was that a world where even the noblest intentions cannot save it might not look like what you...

What's really ironic about this paragraph is Middle Earth is a setting of despair, where things are not fundamentally good, and in fact...

@Remathilis - I feel much the same as you do. So, when I'm running my game, I want it to be a lot more hopeful to be honest. I'm...

Personally if I were to able to redesign D&D, I'd "demote" Druid to a subclass of Cleric (replacing Nature Clerics) and make Ranger the...