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The core of D&D is adventure fantasy, sure. But what's wrong with stretching the genres of fantasy we can play in with D&D?

No worries, if this cozy feelings thing isn't your taste, I'm sure you'll be able to find another D&D story with higher stakes. Like I...

Because those are artificial things designed to put humans in boxes. I generally prefer to keep people out of boxes as much as possible...

English is, per usual, very peculiar. Languages like Hungarian or Tagalog that have no linguistic gender at all don't have this...

English has had they and them as singular personal pronouns since the 14th century, and most English speakers use the singular they and...

Note how you have made 'I want to play race X' the same as playing an evil PC, or making the game some sort of awkward sexual harassment...

No. I would be very surprised if a "6th Edition" (or whatever the next revision will be called) is on anyone's radar at WotC other than...

Matt Colville chimed in on the MCDM SubReddit No real details yet, but will keep an eye on it.

The author uses 'them' as their pronouns. This is an author including a character they identify with. Not sure how that is "too forced"...

The venue and shared experience of Dragon Magazine is gone, and I miss it. But also a lot of the gates between creatives and getting...

As someone who has had to do written customer support for customers with names that I had zero cultural context to even make a guess at...

Or Legends & Lattes which was nominated for a Hugo, a Nebula and a Locus while winning Travis Baldree the Astounding Award for best new...

I still don't understand where all the tortle hate in this thread comes from.

Then let me speak clearly and succinctly. I think it's petty to the point of jerk to have your fun completely ruined by someone in your...

Quote me where I said that. Quote me where I said "give the player always what [they] want". You'll come up empty--I guarantee you...