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That’s because it’s the former that follows from the latter. It’s not that they’re an oddballs because they’re adventurers, it’s that...

Shadowdark has similar, or will when the Kickstarter is fulfilled.

My Ravenloft game was the best and worst example of player's grabbing the theme. They consisted of: * A human blood hunter...

I think this is it right here. I've been DMing for about 20 years now, and in my experience and observation, most campaign settings are...

I've been arguing for a while D&D needs a real default setting that defines the place of everything in the setting, like Midguard for...

I seem to remember this first opening up when Complete Book of Humanoids showed up in 2E. But the real watershed moment seems to have...

For those that like tolkienesque or humanocentric settings, I think this is the best justification- I've used it to make peace with the...

Its harder to encounter the 'weird and interesting' when to your left is Bob the Green Ooze Sorcerer, and to your right is Frank the Orc...

I see the appeal of playing an oddball character, but when everybody is odd, nobody is odd.

Hot take, I think a much bigger influence on modern fantasy snd thus dnd, than anyone gives it credit for, is Wizard of Oz. And that...

I know they (?James Wyatt?) did a bunch of free Planeshift articles years back, did they do Lorwyn? How does this compare to those...

I had to click basically every one, and it still misses. I want XP for overcoming challenges. I don't care if we overcame getting past...

I haven't really thought of adventuring party composition in this way before, but I think you nailed it! This is the perfect way to...

Yup. I've had that often enough- except the player(s) generally try to justify it, forcing that square peg into the round hole, they...

It's completely fair to say it's not new to 5e, but I would say it feels like exponential growth. 2e kept a lot of things reigned in...