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I think people has said this many times enough, but Session Zero is key. That and a mini document explaining the setting you want to...

I've never done that before, or even heard of anyone attempting it, but it does seems like this could work REALLY well if everyone was...

Unless you are paying me to play in your game, I'm there to have fun. Good luck finding those hardcore players.

There are so many DMs in my area looking for players but unable to find any stable groups of people who want to play. I just want...

Seems like that would make sense to for the War Bond weapon(s) be usable as an Arcane Focus, but Arcane Tricksters also have no method...

This is definitely true online but in my experience the exact opposite is true for in-person groups. There is a huuuuuuge number of...

You're misinterpreting the claim here. No geneticist would ever assert that offspring are born with ONLY the traits of one parent with...

Ok yeah then that doesn't sound much different than what I'm used to seeing. Gold just doesn't really matter anymore, for all the...

I just give smaller amounts of gems, gold, etc. so that it doesn't cease to have meaning, while still allowing players the fun of...

What does "off the treasure treadmill" mean? I'm envisioning you mean there is no money, no purchases, no magic items - just focus on...

It absolutely is. But this piggy looks better with lipstick than without!

"Rejected" as in players rated it poorly or as in WotC decided it was easier to just avoid taking any stance on the matter and let DMs...

Milestones are generally always unknown to the players (I suppose some DMs may outright tell the players but I've never heard of anyone...

As a couple examples from Sly Flourish's webpage: 2018 poll of 2444 respondents found 56% use Milestone vs 26% use XP (and 18% other)...

I'd assume they mean that most people don't use XP anymore, as indicated by the aggregate opinions across DnD forum threads and Youtube...