Recent content by Hussar

I mean, yeah. Look, I know that I have apparently earned a reputation for hating halflings, despite actually playing them, but, I gotta say, there's some serious revisionist history going on here. It's the first time I've ever seen anyone try to claim that halfling PC's are popular. As far...

Again, you are making very strong statements here that are not supported by any actual information. Halflngs, by every single piece of evidence we have, are the bottom choice in the PHB. And they always have been. It's not a mistake that every race in 2e got a full Complete Guide, except...

I don't know why you can so confidently say that. Dragonborn are, by all accounts, a very, very popular choice for tabletop. Yes, the HeHe races get top billing as always, but, considering Dragonborn and Tieflings are such late comers to the table, it's impressive that they get played as much...

Another bit of information, although, again, nothing remotely conclusive, is the choice of species in Baldur's Gate 3. I found this chart: which again, puts the hehe's in the lead three positions, but, this time the spread is FAR closer. I mean, Dragonborn and Tiefling aren't that far...

Rakasta would like a word. :D

Oh. I totally agree. It's not like Broken Hero is a bad background. It certainly isn't. It can be really compelling. No argument from me. But, like the video I posted at the beginning of this, it does tend to start sounding like the Four Yorkshiremen when EVERY character comes from these...

Oh, I get it. I do. It's just kinda weird that it becomes the default for PC's. I mean, the meme of parents being horrified that their baby was born an adventurer exists for a reason. :D Like I said, I like to swim against the stream and make PC's that are not broken heroes. They are there...

Oh, wow. What's that like?

🤷 All I can do is report my experience. I mean, you talk about a background being "due" a week before the campaign starts. Are they creating those backgrounds in collaboration with any of the players or only you? Are they creating those backgrounds in collaboration with you or are they...

What was 72 days in the 14th century? Ibn Battuta? He traveled for about 30 years. Went all the way to China and back. Spent time in India as well. But yes, it was the 14th century. I mean, heck, even pilgrimages were hardly rare in the Middle Ages. People would travel for months or even...

So, he'd been on the seas, presumably traveling to various places, for 20 years? And this is your counter evidence that people with normal home lives would never leave their homes? It would be really nice if just once an example could be used and people address the point being made instead of...

Must be nice. In 30 years of gaming, I have seen people come to the table with fully formed characters virtually every single time. I get questions about "What is permitted in the campaign? What is the campaign about (maybe)?" and then the players invariably show up with fully formed...

But, in the real world, that's not even remotely true. It's not like Captain Cook was an orphan. Magellan was a noble. To be fair, his parents did die. :D But, again, there are a horde of historical figures that aren't from tortured pasts who have become explorers and adventurers.

To be fair, I tend to make subtractions mostly to keep my own sanity. :D I have trouble with 5e and how incredibly high magic it is, so, my ban list tends to be in the service of reining in the massive amount of magic in the setting. I have to admit though, I don't generally ban species too...