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My players care about my settings! I mean, a little. It’s really all I can ask for.

I miss the ever-so-heroic multi-day medical camping from the old Baldur’s Gate I & II games. Nothing says adventure like clicking the ‘camp’ button again.

"Here at Buffalo Wild Wings we're incorporating AI..." This is how CEOs have to talk right now. I'd call it a bitter pill to swallow, but it's more of an amusing pill that's probably illegal. Except for the energy and water usage involved in running generative AI systems, which isn't funny at...

Truth.

That’s technically true, but it elides the fact that D&D has always had PC level advancement as a core mechanic. The game is literally built around becoming action heroes/superheroes, like most protagonists in the inspirational reading. Unless you’d like to make the argument a 10th level PC...

Sure. Or course. I'm just not sure I want to mix PCs rebuilt using the 2024 rules with unmodified 5e PCs.

I’m still reading through the 2024 PHB but my initial opinion is, yes, this deserves to succeed. Not sure about incorporating it into my ongoing campaign, however. 2 PC subclasses (Swarmkeeper ranger & Path of Wild Magic barbarian) don’t exist (yet).

Good luck tilting at D&D! Say hi to Dulcinea and Rocinante for me. Also, maybe reconsider starting off with “what’s good for the gaming community…”.

I can't get Chappell Roan's "Casual" out of my head.

I do not think that is a good trailer. Especially given the Empress’s quality final episodes on DISCO with the Ed Asner-looking Guardian of Forever and weirdly poignant story of her personal growth set in the reliably violent and depraved Mirror Universe. That said, of course I’m going to watch it.

I just finished reading Bank's The Player of Games for the first time and am now rereading Noon's Vurt. Think I'll tackle rereading Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun after that.

I'd be twice as interested in an edition of Dungeon World that used half as many words.

Amateur ninja veterinary gynecological procedure.

D&D 5e, "The Book of the Arc" Land of the Lost Ringworld Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Various Dying Earths Hyperion (I'm about to steal the Time Tombs!) 70s fantasy and sci-fi paperback cover illustrations

D&D has spent the last 50 years being a lot of frequently contradictory things to an enormous number of people. So I am confused by the premise of the question.

Sample adventure: two unpopular teenagers perform a ritual with loincloths on their heads and summon a wise sexy genie who teaches them life lessons. She turns one teens' brother into an otyugh.

And Authority is the best (Lovecraftian) office comedy of all time. And thanks for the heads-up about a 4th Southern Reach book! I can read it before the next James S.A. Corey series hits.

Fixed anti-fiend shield with dynamite.

Why do people keep painting? ie, people's responses to game mechanics are often as aesthetic as they are utilitarian.

I think Kano crossed a line.