my kids (8yo, 12yo, and 13yo) would disagree. lethality is very much a given if you fail to prepare and rush blindly into combat. However even then with con based death saves, rallying, and the first aid skill we have had zero killed PCs through most of the misty vale.
Moderation is 100% on the sub reddit owners and most of the smaller ones are very well run. As for longevity I can still find posts from 10 years ago so not sure thats a problem.
Something I didn’t see anybody else mention on here is the dot community pages hosted by discourse. The only one I frequent is for mausritter and its quite good ( Tiny Tails: Mice & Dice Adventures ) it has all the forum discussions with some modern touches. Patreon integration is a big bonus.
I find discord to be all but useless for anything other than sh*t posting and memes, actual discussion is nearly impossible. Reddit (really just a collection of forums) is better but forums are still the best IMHO for community building and discussions of any depth.
Any company that uses paper is getting hit by tariffs, any company that produces in Canada, Mexico, China or Europe is getting hit by tariffs. That pretty much covers 99% of the hobby.
especially since banes and boons stack! Conditions can really cause PCs huge problems if not taken care of quickly and what kind of GM would I be if I let them do that! lol
That was in the end how Tomas explained it on the FL forums, I am just a creature of my habits and like the felling of advantage being given to the more skilled PC.