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Colville had a nice video on backstories last week.

I have had the opposite, with a player had a long back story, they thanked me for not fudging the dice when their character died.

I mean, you can't really have it both ways. The PCs simply, factually, are treated differently in every edition of D&D, because in no...

It doesn't really matter though, does it? I think we can safely rule out supernatural beings/items - there's no way that'd fail to be...

To the best of my knowledge, Tolkien never actually wrote Brandobras' story. It's simply a myth that is briefly mentioned in LotR. We...

Except for the part that a lot of game design choices are all about the aesthetics of those choices. Game design isn't science or math -...

Oh, and maybe that last part of what I just wrote is getting to the essence of what I'm trying to say. Yes, constraints in the form of...

Also what even is evil in this context - like, if you're really assigning some "biological evil" to a species, what exactly is that...

I think one of the major things creating issues here is people wanting to have their cake and eat it - i.e. they want a sapient/sentient...

No, it's not. There are absolutely some ideas that can't be executed under a given framework of rules, and other ideas that can be...

The problem is the human brain is continually looking for patterns and very, very frequently sees them where they don't exist. In fact...

I mean, no, that's not actually true. The problem is more complex and I'm sorry but America and American racists and racism...

The absurd age of many species is something that most TTRPG fantasy doesnt really reckon with well at all. Somebody mentioned a few...

I agree that it could be more explicit, but if you know FR lore (which the MM is based on, since it references Gruumsh) it's pretty...

Cool! I wasn't suggesting that 10% as a rule of thumb. It was just meant as an example of how the vast majority of orcs could completely...