Recent content by The Sigil

So, I'm in probably the same predicament as most on this site. When I got into RPGs, I was young, which meant I had time and energy, but no money. So I borrowed a 1e DMG from a friend, a Basic/Expert set from another friend, and ran from those until I could finally scrape together to buy my...

There's more truth to this than we'd like to admit, and unfortunately I think in too many instances we see players that want to play "themselves, but divorced of consequences for actions they know would carry consequences in the real world."

I like the idea of the cosmic wheel and a campaign where moral forces can be capitalized - a few creatures (outsiders) are avatars/incarnations of a particular supernatural expression of a moral force and can be "capital letter" Good or Evil or Lawful or Chaotic (or Neutral), but for the vast...

Wait, I thought I was done milking the cow jokes in this thread. No, it's fine, I won't do more. But this seems like as good a place as any to drop this: Oh, wait, we stopped the zombie talk too. Crud.

I would ask them if they have live worms first... if they do, it's probably a bait-and-switch.

Hence Matt Colville’s suggestion that when you need unambiguous enemies, use zombies. No will, no moral ambiguity, you aren’t going to convince them to change their minds, just a simple and unambiguous threat.

No, it’s a fair point. I would not have thought to include the mind flayer romance option in the game because it would not have occurred to me that anyone would actually try it. That probably speaks to what I bring to the table and reveals that I would assume as a designer a range of actions in...

This grognard found the idea of romancing a mind flayer even existing as a supported option in BG3 weird. “Who tries to find common ground with a member of an alien species traditionally associated with attempted enslavement and genocide of humanity?” Too many kids growing up having absorbed...

To borrow a phrase… No, they weren’t. The 2014 PHB, page 49 states “a pact struck generations ago infused the essence of Asmodeus … into their bloodline. … the result of an ancient sin, for which they and their children and their children’s children will always be held accountable.” In the...

It also dawns on me that other acceptable answers may include “Cow-otic Moo-tral” and “Cow-otic Beef-full.”

Moo-tral Beef-full?

Game mechanics know this, sure. Does the in-game culture? I would argue, "probably not." I mean, we talk about "minotaurs are bigger" and yet racial (ancestral) attribute increases have been done away with. A minotaur is bigger, do you think it's reasonable for people to assume they have higher...

This is a difference without distinction. A minotaur's connection to Baphomet, could, quite literally, be that their great-grandfather was created by Baphomet exactly once, and the minotaur child literally never did anything wrong. Again, all Tieflings are descended (to use your term) from...

I don't believe I opined on whether or not I liked humanocentric design or whether it is "desirable" - I merely called it out as a potential cause of the "nonhumans are evil" trope in previous editions. I think we can all agree "if that's your like, fine."

They've got "a connection to a dark force" based on their creator deity being evil, but caution is the way... and yet with tieflings I think your bias (liking tieflings) is showing... Uh, Tieflings are LITERALLY descended from demons or humans transformed by Asmodeus (unless something has...