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I generally use the Venture Brothers as my model, which is a good 80% comedy but with enough drama to make things hurt. In general it's...

The trick is that the player needs to know when to be serious and when to be goofy. I'm not against comedy, but too many players think...

There is quite a spectrum, which is much of the fun of the game. The goofy moments are often what allow the serious moments to hit - you...

...ow, did you have to kick me right in the telomeres?!.

Eh, no. If there's a problem it is in the mismatch - that you and the player want different things. But that doesn't mean that what...

In my experience, worthwhile players are happy to work within my stipulations as a DM and choose ancestries that fit the setting, so if...

Generally the DM only needs to actively weave in PC backgrounds a few times per PC over the course of the campaign unless they want to...

As with everything, the ideal situation is that the player comes with a set of ideas and the GM comes with setting expectations and the...

The dates for the wild west era and larger-scale Japanese immigration actually check out, or do you mean strictly "Spaghetti Western"...

Humanoids Handbook is 2E, as are Planescape and Dark Sun. D&D's greatest competition was a system full of vampire and werewolf PCs. This...

I ran a modified Curse of Strahd game (I basically blew up the adventure and turned it into my own), and the players came to the table...

Well, consider this: The players are naturally othered from the setting. The don't know anything about the world unless told. They...

I can see there being some concerns if the setting greatly limits travel such that it's very difficult for populations to circulate. A...

I find it the opposite. "You're all part of a Thieves' Guild" is right up there with "you all meet in a tavern" unless you put some...

I'm saying they're people. Their differences don't make them not people. If a space bug from Alpha Centauri landed on Earth and wanted...