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Another reason I don't allow "backstories" in my games-- you create your character at the table, and your character's story is what...

Deekin sing the Doom song now?

I try to explain to my players that they will become unique, special or epic through their deeds, not who they are or the nature of...

I like that on forums the only algorithm is other people deciding if they want to engage.

I think a large part of the issue with the 'Mos Eisley Cantina' style of species availability is that most DMs as they are prepping a...

This is definitely just a matter of opinion, yours is perfectly valid, to me this reads as very reductionist. Apologies if I...

Yeah, I've tried that. And then every player comes forward and wants to play a "secret" elf or a Tiefling. The second I try to put any...

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...