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Yes, very much so. Wisconsin and Ontario are, globally, pretty close together but are very culturally distinct as well. And thst cokes...

It’s twice as far it is from London to Paris and they are quite culturally distinct too.

re metagaming dragon colors: 1. These color-associations are spelled out on the Player's Handbook in the description for dragonborn 2...

Yeah, with any streaming service the question isn't "Is this got things worth watching" as much as "Does it have enough things worth...

I thought the last episode of season 3 failed the landing.

True, but that becomes more significant at higher levels (and as already pointed out, the party was expected to be twice as big). But...

Ritalin has been (mis)used by people without medical needs in order to cram for exams. Thus it tends to be controlled, and there is a...

This is a misunderstanding of history. There have always been people who played D&D X way and people who played it Y way*. But in the...

That's a different thing. a Basic hobgoblin was nothing like a 5e hobgoblin in terms of how much threat it represented. The 5e hobgoblin...

The starter set directly encourages changing DMs between each mini-adventure, and is aimed at training more people to be DMs. That's why...

In Basic hobgoblins averaged 5.5 hp, had one attack and no special abilities. It’s not really comparable. Experienced people layers will...

And from this, we might learn that while it might be important, design isn't everything.

This is a common sentiment when this topic comes up, but what it really reveals is the shallowness of the campaign in question, or the...

This is far from universal. The trick is to root the characters in the campaign world and to make the players actually care about what...

As an aside, 2e's The Complete Thief's Handbook listed "marbles" in the equipment section and described them as "a general term for...