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Dragonborn is only so high for BG3 because it's the default for Dark Urge playthroughs. I don't think Larian released stats on Durge vs...

Pretty much yeah, except not entirely since then Dwarf would be #1

I think the funny thing is that the original "circus troupe" party is the Fellowship of the Ring—humans, hobbits, an elf, and a dwarf...

Nothing. Zero assigned reading. I describe the setting in session zero and answer any questions they have during character creation. The...

Let me rephrase. Players very rarely will care as much about a setting as the DM does. At least, that's been my experience. And my...

Blanket answer applicable to this entire thread: No it has not.

It still comes down to a social interaction issue. As well as recognition that it’s ultimately a game.

Why not? That's a far better backstory than most players I've seen. That would fit perfectly fine into any world setting I've run or...

They just keep homebrewing their own setting just like they already do and absolutely nothing changes, because you can't somehow stop...

I think this, right here, is the basic issue. This is something that is quite common IME. It's not that players don't care. It's that...

Completely agree. Players will care about setting lore as their character starts to experience it in the game, and not before. If they...

And you need to recognize that there are players--quite a lot of them IME--who don't want to seriously deal with any setting's lore...

Speaking for myself here, checking my most recent campaign Lore Primer it was 7 pages long, 2337 words. My expectation is that most...

Yes there are artificers in Faerun. As noted above, the Deryan's Homunculi spell is named after an Artificer from Faerun who is shown...

Tasha's had 4th level Summon Construct, which wouldn't be legal at most tables since it was reprinted in the 2024 PHB, but also it was...