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What the heck is the “long run”? We’re here to have the players generate conflict and narratives. That’s the point of playing.

Yeah. There's a sliding scale of tension vs apathy. If the players feel like they're one mistake away from death, you're golden. But if...

There’s a reason they decided to have Strahd’s vampiric nature be common knowledge in Barovia in the 5e adaptation of the module...

Most humanoids are pretty easy to convert over, there's not too many with problematic abilities that can't be handled with the ol'...

No? There's plenty of reasons. Heck, it even makes a good reward for doing things in-game as its an overall meta reward with long...

I mean, depends on the ability. Dragonborn had their breath weapon and they were the weakest race in the game because of it for the...

I like the way Lord of the Rings Online has been handling Orcs and Goblins in recent years, showing some variation in attitudes as such.

Hardly. You can value each thing on its impact to the overall world I doubt there is going to be much impact to your overall world to...

That isn't true.

I mean, if this was the reason I'd be raising some eyebrows because it doesn't make sense? Like, it doesn't even lead into the other one...

"I am half-elf. Other half, also elf."

Exactly. The work you do for a campaign setting frame is like building a bonfire. You stack a bunch of pieces together to give the...

My 'introduction to D&D' path starts in Warcraft 3. So you can imagine the shock when I come over the D&D side and people say "Orcs...

Correct. Which is one of the many reasons I gave up homebrewing for a rotating series of settings depending on the game. The Internet...

The art of compromise is to.get other people to agree with you and feel good about it. I never got an actual answer to my question: if...