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Well, no, you don't need strong excuses. You just need to play the "well, that's what fantasy looks like" card. Tolkien designed...

Except... Did the players make an effort to determine how many thugs were in this location ahead of time? Because those five extra...

No, this is exactly what Hussar is saying. @FrozenNorth has it exactly right. Perhaps, since someone else clearly understood my...

And yet, you have zero problem with a method that just says "=100, make up any math you want to so long as it equals 100". And then...

I would argue that what you describe isn’t what is happening. Instead, what you get is more akin to “Trad DMs would never add setting...

One thing I loved in the old Scarred Lands setting was their elf concept of the Forsaken. The god of the elves had been killed in the...

You straight up said that you would change an encounter because the party deviated from your expected path, had more encounters than you...

I mean, it's getting used in a lot of different ways here. FWIW, the real definition is about individuals, not populations. So...

Yeah, I wouldn't agree that it "shuts down" those concepts. But it does undeniably, and dramatically, reduce their frequency. I think...

Your ability to educate the world is limited. Your ability to educate yourself is in your own hands. Um... the US had a racism...

So, there's a nice example from a commonly known fiction we can look to: Klingons. At one point (I think it might have been in ST...

So, this touches on an important point: the difference between "broad average" for a people, and how you depict individuals. There is a...

That's an excellent question. I think the answer is that we don't actually need them most of the time. It is perhaps key to remember...

What's always been really funny to me about people getting SO MAD about strong, brutish halflings being possible is that they...

I have no idea who feylin or garter folk are, so I cannot speak to them, specifically. But, I can try to address some of the core...