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I think there's also a possible conflict in whether individuals consider "core D&D" to be a well-known and defined setting, in and of itself.

Yea, that's a fantastic way to phrase it. 100% agree.

Ignoring power-tripping/tyranny for a second, I think there's a pretty simple question here. The player tells you they have a warlock concept, but they want the patron to just be a background thing and not something that becomes an issue in the game. Do you, as a DM, acquiesce to that concept...

For me, I certainly would love more BG3. It's just that without Larian, and instead a company without a track record of strong CRPG production, the odds that BG4 will actually be more BG3 aren't favorable.

Oh no, I was talking about "we" as video game/CRPG players, not "we" as "consumers of WotC". WotC damaging themselves because of trying too hard on BG4 is pretty darkly funny, though.

Sure, but I'm not sure how that actually impacts me as a bad thing.

Yep. If a class has Absorb Elements, then the character has it learned/prepped, assuming they're past level 5 and aren't dependent on 1st level slots for offense. Same thing with Shield, and for the players who are plugged into the 5e ecosystem, Silvery Barbs.

Nah. I have no particular opinion on the '24 fighter, but the 4e fighter is absolutely the high point of fighter design. It has a strong argument to be the best-designed class in the entire edition.

The last I ran a warlock, their Hexblade "patron" was a Venom-like spiritual symbiote that was slowly consuming the character's memories and vitality. It had no goals other than keeping the character alive so it could continue to consume them. Sure, why not? I don't typically run as though...

Oh, absolutely. I'm a pretty major proponent of the idea that modern games should be designed around the idea of a "campaign" lasting a few months and maybe a dozen sessions; games lasting for hundreds of sessions and 5 years+ are atavisms in terms of modern play schedules.

I don't think there's any particular problem with the announcement; the worst case is that the game is bad and we just ignore it. The best case is that the game is actually good and enjoyable to play. (The pie-in-the-sky case is that the game is as good or better than BG3 despite the lack of...

Dark Sun always felt like a game setting wrestling against the system it was designed for, in both its 2e and 4e incarnations. But I did run Dark Sun with the Worlds Without Number system, which felt in play like a much better fit for how I envisioned Dark Sun. The rule set helped push the...

If you haven't, you should really pick up "Exploring Eberron" on DMsGuild. It's for 5e, but mostly a lore book; IMO it's the single best book released for Eberron (and probably one of the best setting source guides ever.)

Nope. Loved the idea of Eberron when I saw some of the initial pitches, and fell in love with the setting book back in 2003. It's been my "go-to" generic setting since then. It helps that I've always been someone who is into the magitech vibe; Final Fantasy played a much more instrumental...

Yikes. I'll be honest, if I didn't have several RL friend circles to play with, I would have been out of the hobby a long time ago. I enjoy RPing a lot, but not enough to hunt down games like a Tinder date.