Recent content by Mecheon

Not just Dragon, but if you read a lot of older RPGs from the time there's a lot of "The DM's word is LAW! Murder your player's characters for questioning you!" at the time which.... Implies a lot about some play communities. Sure, not everyone, but between Dragon and books it was clearly a...

A non-zero amount of OSR games have plenty of room for totally-not-Runequest ducks, so. It just comes with the community (completely incidental to the thread but I had a lovely time in a recent discord chat where this very thing came up and people were just boggled why 'duck' was included as a...

My go to remains asking what they're wanting thematically from the character concept. You can't have flat out Jedi, sure, but what is it specifically about Luke they're wanting in their game? Is it the farmboy from a desert planet coming to discover a wider universe? That's very possible and I...

A lok'tar-less world. Tragic A DM's job is to facilitate the world for the players to run around in. They can provide alternatives, pick at the desired themes to help get the player's idea across. Its not the DM's personal private ground to run around in. If they want one of those, they should...

Could you though, really? Like, let's be realistic. If you're making low fantasy you're chopping the wizard, the dwarf, the elf, probably the halfling, I'd say you want to chop the cleric as well. That's already 3/4 of the most basic races and 2/4 of the basic classes. You're excising a lot of...

Frankly I think its due to the claim they made that 5.24e is somehow more 'wild high fantasy'. Frankly, I disagree with the assessment and contend that D&D's always been high fantasy. That D&D has been, historically, an awful game of choice if you want something low fantasy, the fact two of the...

How detailed are things that you can't just fit "Here's Tortuga. Its off the coast. Tortles live there, also probably pirates" into some corner? Frankly I'd argue if a world is so densely populated that you can't just let a player go "Yeah sure there's a tiny village up that way you can come...

It does get into the vibe though that D&D is its own setting. D&D isn't a generic fantasy toolbox, its a Dungeons and Dragons toolbox, and has a set of its own tropes and expectations that come with it. One of those D&D Things is just, a bunch of random races running around. That's going to be a...

Though equally there is a point where people can go "This is a legacy creature that has stats in every edition, why are you even playing Dungeons and Dragons if such a re-occurring Dungeons and Dragons creature can't exist in your setting?". Even orcs occasionally stumble into Dragonlance, if a...

As someone who came into the game in 3E, the idea of fighters being good at archers is against everything I have ever learnt and is not what a new player would assume, so frankly I consider it a big deal that people complained about it at the time. Not like, due to them being bad archers, but...

Halflings aren't exactly talking to animals. That isn't just a cultural thing, that's a downright magical ability that gnomes just have because they're closer to fairies and elves than Those are halfling problems, not gnome problems. Dwarves and gnomes are nothing like each other in pop...

If they had some experience with other games, though, could have explained it better using what the system was being used for, as someone who knows that 'hey, advantage exists' wasn't exactly taken with the idea of a narrative control based system. May not be for you exactly, but I'm sure you...

Another exciting one, given most of the 5e ones are close enough to work in this So naturally? Lupin.

Hate to tear back the curtain a bit but uh, as someone in the industry who specifically is involved in commercial vehicles? Not something we ask at our end Mind every insurer has its own things and, just, your average commercial vehicle fleet is going to be large enough you're not going to be...

Forest gnomes are recluses who live in trees and talk to animals, they're not really pastoral in the way halflings are. Frankly, they're closer to elves than anything halflings have. As for rock gnomes? Nah, the stereotype is well into mad science and not just little tinker stuff, and its given...