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I don't think it's a matter of 'preferable' personally. If you have established for whatever reason before that the prevailing skin color among wood elves is greenish to bluish, and someone wants to come in and play a black one, then you might have to come up with an explanation for how they are...

I just needed to do something to acknowledge how much this makes me laugh, and the site only let's me like it once. I think some people hear me say it would be cool to let people play Indian looking halflings, or have Polynesian looking elves in a settings art, and they start thinking I'm...

lol yes, I always get a kick out of the aisle at the supermarket labeled "ethnic food". Like, was the rest of the food in this place extruded by robots or conjured out of a cultureless vacuum by faceless entities? ...you know what, given what stocks most of the shelves in my local supermarket...

Not to get too nerdy, but reptiles aren't very closely related to dinosaurs at all, despite some of them having been alive in very similar forms at the time dinosaurs were around. Birds are totally dinosaurs, though. Every time I see the turkeys running around in front of my office I'm reminded...

I agree with what most people have said here, fighting to stop grifters from putting people into mortal peril for personal profit does not meet my personal threshold for "murderhobo-ing". That said, you know your crew better than any of us. If you think they will feel cheated or angry if they...

I get where you are coming from, and I've run some sci-fantasy games using various D&D adjacent rules over the years, with faux-hard science excuses like convergent evolution or (my favorite) transhuman speciation and uplifting. In scifi, I try hard to have things be plausibly consistent, even...

Yeah exactly, there as many living dinosaurs associated with Mexican culture as there were with Renaissance Italy or the Kush Empire, but somehow it's Mexico that gets the fantasy dinosaur trope! I mean it's not really a bad thing, dinosaurs are awesome. It's just kinda funny.

I have a Mexican friend who always laughs that fantasy cultures (or characters in general) based on Mexican tropes somehow seem to constantly be given dinosaurs as one of their "things". See: King of Fighters, Magic the Gathering, and there must be others but none are coming to mind right...

With the caveat that I skimmed this thread and did not read everything, so I apologize if I'm repeating something that's already been discussed... I think it's really cool when fantasy races reflect more diversity than the "white folks in makeup" sensibility. I have never played with anyone...

To be honest, I have no idea how many house rules my games have. I have a few written down (I have a wound system in my games, Inspiration does a lot more than RAW, Advantage/Disadvantage stack, a few other things). But then I also have a bunch of things that have collected over the years that...

I really feel like this is peak "this thread".

We've got your wizard Hitler, cthulu Hitler, steampunk Hitler, robot Hitler, zombie Hitler, half-elf Hitler, steampunk zombie robot Hitler....

A thicket of hydras. A nuisance of pixies.

Yeah I definitely look for weird and obscure fun terms to use, where I can find one that fits. Everyone has some weird thing that makes them unreasonably happy, and quirky words is one of mine.

I actually call a group of dragons a "calamity" in my games! Along with a quake of giants and an onding of yeti. I love collective creature terms!

Yeah the whole "we need to settle Mars as a backup for Earth" is plainly silly. You could wait until global warming took its course for the next century, and even if it far exceeded the worst case projections, we continued to abuse the environment and annihilate habitats, and we had a few major...

Man, a lot of people in this thread calling me a dork for liking space! I mean I'm not saying you're all wrong, I just... In any case, the space tourism industry is widely seen as a stepping stone which gets money out of rich people who can afford to do it for the lulz, then taking their money...

Even assuming that one doesn't see the value to Earth in doing things in space (which I covered a bunch in a longer comment upthread so I won't revisit that here), I've never understood why people who want to call out misspent money focus so vehemently on space research. Last year, NASA's...

This more or less matches my experience, and also my conclusions. I've found that sprinkling in narrativist mechanics can work, especially when they synergize with what the players already expect to be and enjoy doing. But they crash and burn when I'm trying to throw a spotlight onto a place...

I actually did this once, in one of my games. I basically just used the FATE rules wholesale, jiggered onto 5E using bonds, ideals et. in place of aspects. I was primarily using it to spice up skill-based encounters (especially social ones), and I let players use Inspiration to reroll a check...