Recent content by Xamnam

Honestly, all of them, but the three setting books are definitely most interesting, and HotB is distinctly behind everything else.

Honestly, I probably use New vs. Old more than any other distinguishers. But, if it comes to the poll options: 2024 / 5e24.

Here's the list from the world generator for my homebrew world, ordered roughly by prevalence: It doesn't cover Tieflings, as they don't have a significant local territory, and it is certainly not exhaustive beyond that. Any of those would be fair game for a player to roll up a character as...

I think using the words real, or objective are a huge red herring (pun obviously intended) in this discussion, hence why I put them in scare quotes. Yet, to me, both sides of this conversation are terribly clear in what they're trying to communicate about mysteries, and I do not understand why...

Things, facts, and details can have an "objective" / "external" / "real" / "factual" existence if the frame of reference being used for that language is that of the characters within said setting.

I'm largely on the same page as you, but there's certainly room for where the stuff that would spark your interest to learn more/everything that's been written about a creature or faction also unfortunately happens to be the stuff missing from this specific entry. There's no way of precisely...

I'm about 50/50 on saying either TTRPGs or A game like D&D, depending on how interested I think the other person is / how much of a conversation I feel like having. I don't think I've ever used D&D to refer to some completely other game, like Kleenex for tissue.

I really like this answer, because it covers two separate issues very neatly. Both on the interpersonal level, making sure people are engaged, having fun, not bored or tuning out, and then on a fictional level, delivering scenes that matter to the characters (and players), reflecting their...

When I ran my homebrew campaign, the first session involved descending a tower, with three fights spread across it, which was exactly enough to get the 5 person party to level 2 per the RAW XP rules, and we handled that easily in the time frame with all the introduction and other play around it...

And you definitely don't need all three books to start playing. PHB and an adventure is more than enough.

Look, I know you didn't write it, but I really hate that Old School Primer example, because the "Modern Style" play is written in a way I've never played, nor ever seen anyone play. Like, it feels like what someone would write on the sole basis of hearing from someone else, "Yeah, kids these...

I voted somewhat, because there's gotta be something compelling about the new choice. It doesn't take a lot to pique the interest, but I don't want to trade a night of a game I know I'll enjoy for something that ends up entirely forgettable, or actively not my taste. Admittedly, I say this as...

Again, I see nothing about a request, simply a personal (and perhaps not outwardly/directly expressed!) desire. I'll admit, I could be the one misreading them, but that reading makes more sense to me in being cohesive with the paragraph that followed their initial statement.

I think they might be being misread here, I don't know that they're actually asking for a guarantee that the character won't die. They don't want it, they'll find the event disappointing, but you can not want something while accepting it still might happen.