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Dread Metrol kinda rolls that back a bit. It's explicitly a Domain of Ravenloft with a very heavy dose of The Dark Powers actively bring involved in screwing with both the Dark Lord & Players (always with proper Capitalization on Dark Powers:) It's broken into a GM & player file with the...

Chris Cox gets his new karatur book or officially announced it and included optional stuff🎉 Agreed sketchy source

It's literally the type of survey they did with the public surveys. Here's a very simple article about self selected surveys https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/self-selection-bias/ He brought it up in one of the onednd videos

No I think that a more fundamental component is being ignored, "participation" was already met when he said no tortles don't fit. At almost every d&d table the gm needs not "give" anything more in order to go on to run an enjoyable game with the other players even if the would be tortle player...

Why do you assume he needs to "give" anything to you, what are you offering?

Self selected surveys like the ones they did are so notoriously likely to be skewed by an overrepresented unusually passionate minority among possible respondents that they teach it in college courses related to polling and statistics. All of that is before you consider the impact of...

Absolute? The door is right here. My players are generally fine with my setting curation and exceptions are easily handled because my players don't act like they have absolute power talking about gm supremacy and such. I rarely provide food for my players when I'm hosting but we almost always...

Drow are a great example for so many reasons. Drow as a race actually have a lot of eberron specific lore, it's just tied to the fact that they are one or two steps removed from deliberately unanswered big questions left to the gm and you need to really get into those areas to notice that drow...

The exact wording of what eberron "specifically" says including the clarification from Keith Baker himself attempting to correct the misuse of that wording to override the gm has come up twice in this thread already. It was a bad reading then and you are pushing a bad reading now. Why would...

Pretty sure everything but umm... Silt skimmers(?) just sinks to the bottom and silt is not very breathable

Only 200? The Grand History of Eberron alone is like 500 pages all on its own. Page count doesn't matter, the only question of importance is if the GM is allowed to say no or not. If the GM can say no then they have that option and the player needs to adapt their character to become...

I'm not a fan of fr, and generally make bo secret of my distaste for it, but frcs(I think) has a good few pages on Thay that get better when you realize Greenwood's original Thay had the longer lived slower breeding more advanced elves and dwarves losing a war to and being slowly enslaved to the...

It's goo for a world to kinda have a healthy mistrust and be uncomfortable with adventures as a kid whole but it also says something very weird about the world if not. The average party of adventures is rarely fer from this:

As a "customer".... how much do you typically pay the gm on average? Is the rate a per campaign per session per turn or something else? I suppose this also deserves an answer from the other folks who have been arguing that the gm must never say no to players too