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I mean, we can assume every game (outside of some sci-fi and extraplanar settings) has weather happening as a background assumption.

The way I've always had it, Llolth killed off any other deity the Drow ever tried to raise against her, thus ensuring she's the only...

Not quite that extreme: the setting I'm using now was designed for this campaign, so only 17 years ago. They were all very much alive...

I didn't say that about narrative games. I do think DMs should be upfront during the recruitment stage. I like to put out something...

This thread needs YOU to intractably disagree... ...if it is to make 2000 pages. I've done my part, have you?!

Ayup. It's not frequent, but having a sometimes-hungry Vampire as a PC party member might have changed that... :) Only when said...

Maybe But did you see @Lanefan 's post #19,056? D&D General - [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. I think it looks...

That's like saying the weather is caused by stepping outside your door. The idea of "simulationist" is there is always weather. The DM...

Well, to be pedantic about it, narration of weather is caused by the PCs sending their characters on a journey. I think we can all...

Couldn't resist... :) Assuming average values for chest 4's jewelry of 3500 each and assuming the base value variances on the gems...

Were I running 5e Drow might well be* kill-on-sight there too; as would demons, devils, jellies, oozes, githi, chromatic dragons...

Quite intentionally so. :) As background for the most part, until a party killed off some "wandering" Drow in the desert without...

Now, as much as I've sung the praises of collaborative setting building, I do see the real downside here. I have a player whose primary...

Now that's just brilliant! Kudos to the publishers for that one!

Fair; but given that my setting's history includes a long-ago globe-spanning war betwene elves and Drow that eventually drove the Drow...