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Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...

Mid-apocalyptic fits best. The prison keeping the oldest demon kings in check has been destroyed, nights where the stars turn blood red...

If most of the monsters are non-sapient it could still work. Basically like an accidental hunting trip.

It’s not just about having a reason to leave home or take risks, plenty of people do that. It’s the fact that D&D adventures (remember...

That’s what John McLane said. Sometimes adventure finds you.

If I am traveling Europe for a year due to wanderlust, I'm not going to take a job with a bunch of people I just met to go and free a...

This occurs for all kinds of reasons. First and foremost is that the "dark character" or the "Anti-Hero" often is one of the most...

I am reminded of how The Nightmares Underneath, as part of character creation, asks you to explain either A) Why the character is...

Maybe characters with unhappy backgrounds come already predisposed to adventuring whereas characters with happy backgrounds have to have...

Dragonlance had Draconians (NOT Dragonborn) and lacked Orcs. I only had a couple PCs that fought Orcs as I stopped playing D&D not long...

I can see it if the adventure is more like a travelogue or pilgrimage rather than an infiltration into enemy territory. E.g. if fights...

I see why and the dark backstory trope is funny to grating sometimes depending on the level of edge the player inserts, but on the other...

Academic literature being super-dense so only other academics can parse it -- gotta reinforce the value of those higher degrees -- was a...

Personally, I don't really care about "fair" either way in this context. My lament at this specific moment is that I can't have a...

I don't feel like I attacked them. I do think it's fair to question their decision to rely on ChatGPT for something like this. Where I...