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Suppose Toril was plane shifted to our Solar System as a Counter-Earth, with a sphere of wildspace surrounding it about 800,000 miles in radius, its moon Selune orbiting within that sphere. A spelljamming ship can fly around within that sphere, visit Selune and the tears of Selune within, but if...

One must take into consideration that the map of Faerun is a flat projection of a globe, the areas to the north are going to be projected larger than they actually are.

No magic, that's why!

For example, Someone might think it was obvious that corporations were evil and assume the players will just agree that its obvious, and it would seem perfectly natural that the villain should be a corporate CEO of a faceless corporation, after all, the DM reasons, who else could be a villain...

Yes he's evil, but he rationalizes his evil, whereas Steppenwolf doesn't bother and doesn't care, he just wants what he wants.

Would you consider Thanos from the Avengers 3 movie to be a misguided villain? And of course from the Justice League Movie is another sort of villain, Steppenwolf, he is a henchman of Darkseid. Darkseid just wants to rule, and is a bit more of a 2-dimensional villain than Thanos.

But in the Forgotten realms, you could hire a wizard to teleport you there.

For monsters you need a place for them to live which is not right next to the local village, so you need to put some distance between the civilized places and the uncivilized places.

Robin Hood is historical role playing with fictional characters. Robin Hood had no wizards in his band of merry men, and Friar Tuck couldn't heal people.

You need vast wildernesses as places for monsters to hide. Historical Europe didn't really have monsters, it only had people. One could play D&D as a historical role playing game without magic. You would have fighters, rogues, commoners, experts, and aristocrats as character classes if you are...

I'm not going to say my political views don't enter into my DMing, I know better than that. It is my belief that everyone is influenced by their political opinions whether they choose to admit it or not. I've read lots of books, and usually I can tell the political slant of the author by the...

I tend to be conservative in my view point, and my villains tend to care more about power than about money. Money is only one form of power, and liberals tend to think that money is the only form of power out there, their villains tend to be rich people that want to get richer, or evil faceless...

It was a great introduction to D&D. It was a game in a box, and less of an investment than buying three or four hard cover books just to play a game that you don't even know if that your going to like. Elves and dwarves were character classes so as to simplify the rules. Elves were all...

The most ludicrous action I can think of is when player characters attack each other. That just shows me that the players aren't serious about playing the game and I find another group.

Looks like a troll to me!

Why do you go with urban and not modern fantasy? We don't all live in cities you know. The modern world is mostly countryside, the cities are only a tiny fraction of the modern world.

The Roman Empire at its maximum extent is about the size of the United States, the Empire of the Mongols was bigger than the Soviet Union.

You know, there is so much of this stuff that you can't find in stores.

Adventures in Arabia. I think that was already done wasn't it? Al Quidam or something like that. Norse comes closest to your standard D&D campaign. If there was no Christianity, Norse gods would compete with the Roman ones.

Billy the Kid versus Dracula, who wins?