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I appreciated you post and your willingness to change but. . . While I am not gonna be as jerky about it as some other posters, I am gonna suggest reconsidering your use of "female" in that way. I get that you were talking about mixed ages, but 1. "women and girls" works fine, and 2. "female"...

The audio book version read by Bronson Pinchot is really good. I was really impressed with his voice acting (and that he had range beyond Cousin Balkie)

On these very forums, give or take 20 years ago, I remember having heated discussions more than once about women in gaming with forum members who explicitly insisted on it being a male hobby and refused to have women at their table either because they saw D&D as their “man’s club” where they...

Yes and no. Yes, because the homebrew ruleset I am working on for future D&D campaigns is based on 5E (with a bunch of previous edition stuff grandfathered in) But also, no. . . because I felt like I had to create a whole new ruleset to achieve something close to my preferred playstyle while...

So far "spiritual" seems closest to what I am looking for, but thanks for the suggestions, everyone (and keep them coming!) @Baron Opal II : yeah, "force" is a weird one. Yes, it is physical but it is also "purely magical" which I interpret to mean it can be as material or immaterial as it...

let's say I want to divide damage types into two groups. one group is "physical" damage (fire, slashing, cold, lightning, poison, etc) what would be the "magical energy" group (force, necrotic, radiant, psychic) be called?

Is it wrong that as soon as “X encounters per adventuring day” being “a requirement” comes up in any 5e rules based thread I roll my eyes and stop reading? Because my mental health has been much improved by this policy. 😉

🤯 That is friggin' impressive. Yeah, I will put in extra time on bigger minis because I actually have a decent shot of painting the details well (b/c they are bigger in scale) and because mess ups are easier to spot for the same reason. But I know I am never gonna be at the level of many...

If the mini will stand on its own (because it has a built on base - like many Reaper minis) I won't bother with a base at all! If it needs a base to stand, then I base it and the details/texture I add has a lot more to do with mood at the moment than with aesthetics. Then again, I personally am...

I think that for Colville, the details of what people are arguing about is not as important as the fact that debating gameplay approach and style and interpretation of rules continues and those disagreements are broadly about the same kinds of things. What struck me about his video and the...

In a recent campaign when the party arrived in town to start undertaking missions and adventures, many of which at the behest of the local prefect, who was soon encouraging them to buy property and hang around and vote in the next year’s elections. The idea being that if the party supported him...

I know it's a tangent, but in my opinion (and for what it is worth, I have a PhD in Contemporary American Literature & Popular Culture), literature is not a way of writing, it is a way of reading. So yes, it is all literature, if you read the text with the attention and contextual...

Yeah. I agree. And while the content is some of the most interesting, I do think it is some of Peterson’s worst writing and it needs a new version like “Playing at the World” is apparently getting (got?). I think his analysis is always great but his writing has gotten better.

Matt Colville on the Elusive Shift and the continuum from 1970s zines to contemporary reddit screeds. . .

I've been slowly building a printed out black and white working version of these rules and keeping them in a three-ring binder (I find it easier to cross-reference and figure out what is missing in a print format + we'll need it for playtesting) and made draft table of contents, which I share...

I had one too! I was using the 1E rules that some small percentage of mimics are intelligent and decided this one - Mimi the Mimic - was intelligent enough to make a deal of being fed regularly in return for guarding the treasure within and around it! I don't even know what an eladrin is, but...

My current setting and the one I am tying my “Vanity Frankenstein 5e” rule set to is a democracy. The two major factions are “traditionalists” who are wealthy descendants of former nobles who generations later use their wealth and influence (they have the best chance of being elected or...