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It has, in other hobbies I enjoyed. I then moved on to other things I liked, rather than hang around the communities of those hobbies bringing people down. ("Toxic positivity" and "WOTC fanboy" accusations incoming in 3....2....)

You really seem to hate D&D. I mean, seriously hate, despise and loathe it. Like, this is passionate. Spending so much time talking about something you have nothing but rabid hate and contempt for might not be good for your mental well-beiung.

Well, if I was in a negotiation and the spellcaster suddenly started very obviously casting a spell, I'd probably be a lot more suspicious. Or hostile, if I didn't know for sure that he wasn't about to drop a Flame Strike.

Regular reminder that the DMG does not mandate 6-8 encoutners per day, just gives it as an example of how an adventuring day might go.

And out of all the settings, how many gods does that very specific concept actually match up to? Selune from the FR, and.....well, I really can't think of any others. It would have been better just to make it a more generic "protection" theme. This means the super darkvision gets lost; that's a...

For me, a really weird world still needs to feel like it's functional and coherent in its own way, rather than a sequence of flashy novelty. It's....like the difference between the Dying Earth novels (really weird stuff, but contributing to a coherent aesthetic and feel within the stories) and...

Hellfire weapons bugged me. Why do devils bargain and grant favours to gain souls, when they could just roll a Hellfire Engine through some random village?

Outlaw Star. I mean, the bad guys are literally a cabal of evil space wizards, and the main character has a gun that shoots spells. The only major incompatibility is that spelljammer ships don't have extendable arms to punch each other.

One thing that I've come to realise about Kickstarter is that the vast majority of creators have no idea, not the slightest, how long their thing will take to produce. I've had a grand total of one arive in the month it was promised, even pre-pandemic, Yes, delays happen, but the creators...

The save repeats on Hypnotic Pattern. Keeps it as a good CC spell, but reduces unheroic "huddle round helpless foes one at a time" fight conclusions. Owls don't have Flyby Attack, as an indirect change to Find Familiar. Striking a blow for familiar diversity in a way that feels more fair than...

One thing that would have made the sacrifice aspect work a lot better would have been if.....well, ANY of the quests other than a single starting one was related to them. And even that one isn't directly related to investigating the sacrifices, it's to do with a guy killing those who cheat their...

A bit more "here's how I'll do it" for this bit:

If you have nothing nice to say, maybe spend some time meditating on if it's worth saying, verses simply moving onto discussion of something that does bring you happiness. I know, Internet fandoms, ENWorld culture and all, but trust me, a right to be negative is not automatically a duty to be...

The one I have in mind was Avarice attempting a prison break with the cult and some summoned yugoloths (which the PC's might be on either side of), to recruit Gant to her side.

Tropes are terrible, and you should subvert them at every chance you get. Play a butt-kicking princess who doesn't like dresses, a misunderstood Native American orc or a mean halfling. No, you don't need to do anything else, original is the same thing as interesting, right?

One thing 5e doesn't get enough credit for is changing a lot of bonuses to extra dice. It's so much easier to remember when you can simply put the die in front of the player, and it just feels better to literally hand someone else a dice as a bard.

How cute and glib. Crack open the DMG, and you will see that in the very next sentence after it describes 6-8 Med / Hard encounters, it immediately says that more easier encounters or fewer harder ones are equally valid options.

Regular reminder that the DMG does not mandate 6-8 encounters, it gives it as ONE example of how an adventuring day could go. Further proof that nobody read that section for themselves.

Oddly enough, I think this one-size-fits-all approach worked best with Dark Sun, because it was almost entirely irrelevant to the present of the setting (and the typical game played in it), didn't gratuitously rewrite big chunks of it, and just provided a reason for why there were no gods and...

Helmed Horrors become more and more powerful with each change of this nature!