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So trying to follow along… Is the nazi dude getting paid if I buy this or not? I’ve got most of the OAR series so curious.

I ageee but also still think the gaming community is harder on their producers. Maybe a better example is music. I have no doubt many who would not buy a gaming product for good reasons would in the old days buy a CD or now iTunes or whatever file from creepy artist. Just an observation...

For me personally… I get both approaches. I don’t tend to want to buy from people that are blatantly antisemitic. Or whatever. I think it makes sense for the community of gamers to point out a bad actor. Sometimes they do it for reasons I don’t agree rise to the bar. Sometimes it seems...

I won’t play a build that does not make sense so to speak. As such, I want it online early. Played a dwarven warlock. His patron drove him half mad talkin to him through his axe. By level 3, he was barbarian 1, warlock 2. Now up in the teens, the rp dynamic is still available. I...

Getting real weird in the world and those threads. Real weird.

I understand the premise of the OP. I get it. But I also get why we often are conservative. Imagine someone trying to change baseball not incrementally but in spurts. Not just infield fly rules or DH for the national league; but big things. Caught dropped balls always mean they are...

Later in life I got an MBA. It amazes Me that any small business survives long. It is incredibly easy to tank an enterprise. As a younger guy I did not grasp a cash flow problem. How can you be wealthy and not have cash? I don’t think there are many saints in most scenarios but really get...

All interesting stuff. Dare I fork out 13 bucks for a paperback book? A person can be heroic and villainous both in the same lifetime. There might be limits (I am not suddenly clubbing baby seals nor offering my family home to the homeless…) and a lot of what gets discussed loses this fact...

We invest some trust in the DM to provide an interesting environment and challenges. Why the DM? Because they volunteered to DM and I may not feel like DMing. But more to the point—-you asked why it is set up this way. Well, the game was designed that way because the founders thought that...

Sometimes we have to trust people. We choose who to trust. Often the person who wants to GM is taking on that role with good intent. What about ones that don’t? What about bad police? What about bad doctors? If you find you can’t trust one, their roles need to be torched? Up to us all to...

The responsibility of the DM historically is to referee the game and provide challenges and a framework for the world and challenges. The players, historically, are trying to better their position in the game world. This means they will push for wealth and power much of the time without regard...

One of my pets is dying so I can’t tolerate a lot right now. Drinking beer and listening to the Smiths. 🤷‍♂️

Fruit-person weed lover kills Tru-green!

Here is where I am situated: I like 5e. It like every other edition is not perfect. I feel like what was added on layers made new problems. Not horrible ones but issues. I think the new modules will be good enough for use with 2014. That is not nothing but playing the game 2024 and 2014…it...

Like do all the coke so you can keep up?

Well this is a people thing in part and an expectation thing in part… My pals have largely the same wants in a game system. That helps. The others just want to see adventure and chaos. But I leaned a hard lesson a few years back. I DM’d a weekend super event! We had good food…many...

I was a little kid but loved those shows. Benny hill too. Don’t tell

Everything has an upside. I like 5e but when I play it I care a lot less about treasure and magic items. No experience for treasure means we are not pushing to gain every last coin. Hell I will leave treasure for others at times because I don’t care. And there are so many abilities and so...

Some recent design choices seem pretty divorced from entertainment only decisions. But that said, I would not want to go back to descending AC. I admit it was foreign to me when we moved to 3e from 1e in 1999. But we adapted and don’t see a need to go back.

The lack of perspective sometimes astounds. The inability to keep things in perspective and with any sense of proportion can be stunning. I am not referring to anyone in particular but if the shoe fits…