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So it's avoid cultural stereotypes masquerading as species?

I'll add that in a hobby that prides itself on modifying rules to suit particular tables, complaints about things like orcs not being...

One of my recurring themes in my gaming material is "the monstrous in everyday life," where creatures that are monsters do relatively...

Exactly this. Bioessentialism is also what gets us things like stat bonuses or penalties for gender.

Bioessentialism isn't wrong where it isn't false to facts. Indeed, where it is true to facts it inherently important. It's a taboo...

We don't see a lot of disparity in levels in 5e these days since we level by milestone in our home games, but in cases where I have seen...

I think the mixed-level party is an inevitability in 1E. The idea of "balance" as we think about it today wasn't as prevalent in that...

Among people who started with 5e, I'd say this is true for a majority.

My only current game is at the gm's house, although since his wife is a player it's technically also at a player's house (but I only...

It's in the Core Rulebook, if you can find a copy.

Yes, there's a frame which is like an 1800s Western + Kaiju mash-up - it's pretty cool. It adds kind of elaborate rules (by DH...

So far I'm finding it fits very much in the space of neotrad. Our GM comes to it from GMing Avatar (PbtA). Two players come to it from...

I'm agnostic on that, but convincing people that CR is still CR without Mercer behind the screen in the 'main' campaign will be a pretty...

To clarify from the announcement video since it came out after this thread, Matt Mercer is going to be a PLAYER in Campaign 4.

Probably having trouble getting the Daggerheart books, those are sold out everywhere!