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Pendragon does this. The game is set in Arthurian England. PCs start off before Arthur, and see the young boy come around. Then, they have kids, who grow up protecting Arthur. Then THEY have kids, who serve an aging Arthur during Lancelot's betrayal. Or something like that. Anyways...

In my current 5e game, I rule that the winter months are just too harsh for travel. It's a coastal region, and the waves are too bad for travel. So, two seasons out of the year are just no good (half of fall, all of winter, and half of spring). So, PCs get around 180 days of downtime in one...

Honestly? Finish the campaign. Grit your teeth, and bear it. Tie up whatever plots you have hanging as quickly as possible, throw something tough at them, and let the chips fall where they may. If you like your campaign world, you begin again... ten years later. Or twenty. Or whatever...

I dunno. If the players are having fun and you're not really roleplaying, why bother forcing it? What's the end goal there? Since this is a 5e thread, roleplaying ties into one tier of play - the social tier. So, if you want to encourage roleplaying (for the express purpose of one or more...

Way I do it: 1. I roll ten individual treasures for the "tier" my pcs are in, based on the average CR of the monsters they'll be facing. I put this all into one lump sum; all individual monster treasures come from this pool. 2. I roll up one hoard per 6-8 encounters. This hoard gets...

'sall good. Guess it happens - kinda weird though.

Again... you're quoting the wrong person. I have no idea about giantish languages, and the post my quote links to have nothing to do with giant languages....?

What's your point? Someone asked to be called "it" is a lot different than referring to someone you don't know as an object. Ultimately, it says nothing about THEM, and says a lot about how YOU look at human beings. You know what? Maybe there was a bit of hostility. But sometimes, when...

Never, ever, EVER, use "its" to describe a human being. Have whatever opinions you want, because you have the right to do that. But calling another human being "it"? That says less about them and everything about you.

Yeah, count me on this "it's only fair if we just challenge the characters" thinking. If I wanted to roll my way through a game, there are plenty of board games for me. Challenge the players. Sure, they might occasionally use real world knowledge, but in my experience, they generally don't...

Um. Okay. Didn't know "stat block" meant "driver's license". Glad *I'm* the foolish one. 1. I'm the GM. 2. I'm not going against WotC. I'm saying they could do more. 3. What's passive aggressive about making a point and then arguing for it? Do you know what passive aggressive means...

Plenty of stat blocks have gender in them. It's on the character sheet, for starters. As for sexual orientation - it's implied in a lot of character descriptions. Do you really need page number quotations for this? Or are you one of those "I only read the statblocks" type players?

Ah. Self Righteouosness. Gotcha. Don't read your own posts before posting them, then? I agree with all but the last. A little bit of coverage in the products doesn't cause any harm. And what about NPCs? What about every villain having only heterosexual relationships? Every rescue the...

Generally agree... but it's D&D. Sometimes, you just HAVE to have that trap that's a revolving door with a gelatinous cube at the bottom, logic be damned.

I generally allow anything. But there's a twist. First, I tell the players what's common in my campaign world, provide backstory, and all that fun stuff. If they want to do something different, we figure out how it originates... and I make room for it in my campaign. This has meant that my...

Yeah. It's why there were so many save-or-die effects back in the day.... they weren't really expected to come up much. When it comes to traps, I always put them in the exploration part of the game. PCs are not in high stress situations, and there isn't usually a war of attrition going on...

First, it's kind of the epitome of jerkdom to put in necrophilia in the same sentence as, well, a lot of what you're saying. I'm going to assume you didn't mean it that way, and just put it there by way of making a joke. Because while you can do whatever you want - and no one in this thread...

All well and good, but really, you're going super generic here. How do you give a trap a story, for instance? And, just as importantly - why? If you give a trap a story, is there a way for the PCs to discover that story? Should there be? I have a few rules for traps in my own game: 1...

I'm still not getting this entire thread - first, the title makes no sense, but whatever. We'll let that pass. Now, to pick your new post apart and see if I can get where you're coming from. This is a good thing. Changing how classes work lead to the two biggest quagmires wotc has faced in...

My opinion? It honestly depends. If you ask the player, and they say "I just wanna play a gnome!" yeah, should probably allow it, and maybe dial it back a bit (or some up with an exception; the world is full of exceptions). If they say "yeah, I like it, it sounds lie a challenge" then allow...