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But that dwarf is the epitome of D&D player-characters. DM: "While you stand on the precipice, there's a deep rumbling from below. The trees sway, some crack and tumble. A colossal dragon yawns upward at you, for disturbing its . . . " Dwarf PC: "I attack! Rolling initiative!"

So to summarize: "Should all characters be able to do all things?" or "Are class-exclusive abilities okay?" It seems obvious that a character should do things better as character options are directed toward those things. That's what character creation is, right? (Well, ignoring the fluff...

Pendragon's page has a good line for GM's Day: Without the Gamemaster there would be no game; in roleplaying there is not a more noble act than to take on this great responsibility. (Nominees png is showing as broken for me :(

Look, you guys are being really harsh. I think the AI did a fantastic job on the new site.

One million doesn't even cover the portions of the C-suite.

I generally like gray matter searches better, even if it's not my own. So I thought I'd ask. I guess it's easier to pull off the pointy-eared look in settings with elves. Without them, one might draw undue attention to his god-accursed state.

Great. The next thing someone's gonna tell me is that vampires can "magically shapeshift" into creatures with "pointy ears" that . . . oh, wait. This is about where I like my vampire ears to land for pointiness: Chilling. Gary. Oldman.

Well, "champions" does have an A and an I in it. Could be WotC's term for non-human game masters.

So glad Matt Mercer landed the Strahd gig! Maybe his next game will be called Stakeheart? Seriously . . . was Strahd always an elf?

That partially answers my question: doesn't it take marketing to get to $1M? I haven't seen peep about this game. It's good to see murder-hoboing take a backseat in the name of "cozy."

I think this is a related issue for me. I assume in this situation, the player shows up a week later and asks something like, "what happened, and what did my character do?" And your response is, "you had downtime! You tell us (right now!) what you were up to during the last adventure." I'm...

Why describe it, when . . . . . . I can just agree that @Remathilis has it right? Skulls are the way to go. I think it's Doom-inspired for me.

And the malefactors hold their breath, hoping no PCs show up for just . . . one . . . week. I just get nervous thinking about the explanation of why a character was at home, shining his boots, while the rest of the gang was sloshing into poisonous swampland. I do like the idea of discovering...

3 INT would be a compliment for my chi! Rolling a 3 or 4 isn't - statistically - a big problem. But hey, you could roll one. Just don't put it in an attribute that you like. Maybe Shadowdark requires assigning down the line . . . then own it. Why play Shadowdark if you don't like the rules...