Recent content by TiQuinn

I think with those save DCs, and this: …you’re gonna have a lot of lycanthropes running around your campaign.

From a DMing point of view, I’ve never personally thought it important to consider demographics in that way. Whenever I’ve needed an NPC of a particular species, that’s what I’ve included in my game. Demographic percentages have existed since World of Greyhawk (at least), alongside things like...

Been that way since Kara-Tur and Al Qadim, honestly. I would simply ignore it if I didn’t like it. I’ve had to do that countless times in the past, even with just metaplots designed specifically for FR.

My main problem with the show right now is the copious amount of exposition in place of actual plot. Why show anything when you can simply explain the plot verbatim? I don’t usually care about that so much but this is laying it on thick.

I saw that and I felt a million grognards cry out at once in absolute rage. 😂

Besides SlyFlourish and Mastering Dungeons, I also really like The Vintage RPG Podcast for a broad variety of nostalgic takes on games. Shorter podcast but very good. Between Two Cairns for OSR stuff - when it’s good it’s real good, and you’ll learn about a lot of great games but sometimes they...

Doing my first spatchcocked turkey today! Hoping it looks like this! (Cutting that backbone out is a pita!)

I’m not gonna watch a 50 minute video of random clip art while the dude talks at 2x speed - which unfortunately is all of Pointy Hat’s stuff.

I don’t know if that’s true or not. I also don’t know how many GMs put that level of effort into their games. If players have busy lives, so too do GMs, and I have to imagine a large number of them are also content to play a campaign where they don’t put a large amount of upfront setting work...

My post after the one you quoted points to my thoughts on this. Players and DMs aren’t always going to align on the games they want to play for a variety of reasons, and either someone gives or they’ll have to wait for the right player or table. I get both sides.

I think that this underscores how much tables differ. I can understand a GM who puts a lot of effort into their setting and campaign with a level of detail that is makes it a very personal thing to them, but the expectation that every player is going to approach what they offer up with the same...

This right here. I was reading through the posts and thinking some folks expect a lot out of people carrying on a regular job and other commitments who just want to play a game of D&D. Many players do not think about their characters outside of the moment they sit down at the table. Those...

At some level, this goes way back to 1st Edition D&D and Gygax, who really wanted to make sure that the game remained humanocentric SOOOOO much...that he gave demi-humans all of these various abilities, bonuses, and differentiators, and made playing a Human just the default state. Like, what did...

Yeah, that seems like a baaaad bone to break.