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I've got to say I'd find the expectation I track all conditions at both ends something I'd not want to do. If players want to play in a...

It can properly emulate the potential confusion and mistakes in position that can happen in-game, but I'm not sure that's such a...

I'd suggest that's not been true with something as structurally specific as D&D is in spots for a long time if ever.

True. The consequence of that diversity is that my elf PC may not adhere to the norms of your elves because we are viewing elves from...

But, in the real world, that's not even remotely true. It's not like Captain Cook was an orphan. Magellan was a noble. To be fair...

I think the funny thing is that the original "circus troupe" party is the Fellowship of the Ring—humans, hobbits, an elf, and a dwarf...

One PC I had was just from a family of adventurers - all still alive and a loving family but my character was just following in mom and...

There were probably a pretty fair number of ancient and medieval mercenaries who had, by the standards of the time, decent family lives...

I understand there can be all kinds of reasons for doing that, but I do have to suggest if that's your view there's a certain element of...

That says nothing about what the GMs who use them think, however. Well, see my final comment in the post two up. What GMs think...

I'm not sure that's been true for quite a long time now.

It doesn't help that there's a certain momentum-of-expectations that you have to deal with, and that's immensely stronger with D&D than...

At the tail end of the Black Friday sale on DTRPG I bought the second editions of Mutant City Blues and Urban Shadows.

I'd bought everything a couple weeks ago (don't remember what the sale was, but there was one on GOG).

Presumably because they assume it suggests the setting is coherent and not generic and shapeless. (Note: at best I have a leg in this...