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No, both are important, but to me exploring the setting through your PC is more important than engaging strictly as a game. I think...

I don't see how it being fictional makes a difference.

It's also how you interact with the setting, and that's very important to me. In fact, it's what makes role-playing an enjoyable...

I'm not exactly answering the question, but I want to say it's a blast playing low-intelligence characters. One of the unsung benefits...

Ease of access today better than ever. Majority of books for games can be bought legally, often for cheap. And quality of digital...

Yeah that's another good recommendation! I did think to check some Dungeon Crawl Classics sources- I use the carousing-downtime rules...

I actually wouldn’t lay out the terms in the beginning. That makes it more of a formal contract. I prefer the warlock/patron...

To go with the minis the artwork is pretty amazing too. I print a lot of battle maps out on a couple of pages of A3 because I don’t...

I thought about that, but when you give a moderate option, people always gravitate towards it.

I appreciate all the replies and discourse, thank you! Just finished running a morning game, nice to come back to see everyone's...

Think of it like this: Do you forbid your employees from learning new skills and becoming more effective employees, simply because they...

It's a failure of design (IMO) with little to no input from the designers with regards to clerics, paladins and warlocks. However, the...

I find it helps to think of Warlock patrons as, well, patrons. You know, wealthy nobles who would pay artists to fund their art. It’s...

No it hasn't been removed from the DM's purview and given to the player. It has been reduced, though. First, the oaths are built into...

Except 5e didn't remove them. It simply removed the parts with gm facing levers and replaced them The player facing levers were all...