Paul Farquhar's latest activity

Players give feedback on the proposal. DM adjusts their ideas based on feedback. Doesn’t build world until the players are agreed. Or...

No one is forcing players to join games, but if they do it’s the DM’s job to entertain them and make sure they have fun. They are not...

Yeah, they do. The DM is building a playground for the players. They have a responsibility to them. If they want to world build purely...

I agree with the OP’s assessment of this movie. An enjoyably silly D&Dish fantasy adventure.

Just watched this, and it’s honestly a lot less of a car crash than I was expecting. No, it’s not as great a film as many of those who...

I think its an art form vs science. A formula might get you in the ballpark.

I can understand the desire to have everything in the world follow the same rules, but as you say, it doesn’t work. And doesn’t work in...

To me there is a real struggle with a lot of people in the hobby of having the game look like a certain way and what the positive and...

I think it was the best written setting book of the era, with just the right amount of detail to be really useful. Call of the...

So probably try a bit of honesty, and lead with that, rather than trying to excuse your prejudice with settings based justifications...

I’ve already suggested several. I am a natural turtle changed my magic, I am from another plane of existence, I was a spelljammer until...

Your suggestion is clearly ridiculous. It’s clearly “my way or the highway” whilst pretending to be reasonable. The way you phrase this...

No, that’s not “tortle or nothing” that’s “tortle or something completely ridiculous that will make me look foolish”. That’s not a...

OK.... If my GM told me I couldn't be a tortle, but I could be a human in a turtle suit, and was actually serious about it, then that's...

Not a discussion. You haven’t discussed what they mean by a tortle, what aspects of tortle they think will work well in the campaign...