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A good GM allows players to make decisions that matter. You don’t put a vault full of gold in a game if trying rob it is something you won’t allow. Good players won’t try to expand their agency beyond what they know their GM is ready to deal with, has prepared. A GM creates a space in which...

Assume child is brilliant, precocious, and weird like you were, but not in the same way cause it’s decades later.

Well ok, sorry. But all five of the posts before me were not positive, so I offered support, and I thanked you for sharing, and there still isn’t another Garfield Positive post in this thread.

I was merely defending Garfield against people who’ve been playing DnD since B/X casting shade on a Garfield origin story.

Garfield’s pretty awesome, if you’re 9 yrs old. But am pretty puzzled to see someone post the trailer here. That said, thanks, as a pretty ad free household might not have known to look out for this for the Garfield inclined member of the household.

For real? Thanks for the pile of straw men. Just because ancient aliens don’t exist doesn’t mean there isn’t a whole lot of uncertainty about Alexander, Viking raids or even NYC in the 70’s. I presumed the OP was a genuinely curious person studying real history, you should maybe apologize to...

I think we’ve reached the point where more and more of the audience has realized that CGI is at the point where anything and everything is possible to appear on the screen so what they are seeing is meaningless. Audiences are going to be looking for more meaningfol experience.

Hamburger Hill. The ‘nam movie. epic Battles to get up hills there is no reason to actually take, over and over, every session.

I play in the forgotten realms. A setting with a lot of cannon/baggage that the official source of hasn’t exactly been super consistent about. It doesn’t actually matter, the source material is just a pool of ideas to draw on for your game. you can take from both before and after the spell...

So, I’m going to offer a different take. Doesn’t matter. You liked the book, it was a great book, was it what historians generally regard as correct now? doesn’t matter. history is contested, there is no official or truely correct version of past events. Look at the news today, there is so...

This one always helps me feel something for people outside my own limited experience.

I like them, but I like them for everything that happens before the alien encounter when all of Snarf’s camps are still possibilities. The first half of the movie tease is the interesting part when you don’t know how this is going to go, once it’s revealed the writer decided this will be one of...

There should be no math other than adding up dice rolls. That’s the point of all the weird dice, all the complicated math already done to tell you what dice you need to roll.

Meaningful not an option? Like, serve a purpose? The most important thing about any dungeon is that it provide a reason for being there and make the adventurers motivated to explore more. I get that the question assumes that this most important thing is already provided, but in practice I...

Maybe time for a PSA that if you think your collection of anything is worth something you need to actively work to unload it during your lifetime if you hope it will yield some value to your heirs. They’ll be lucky to get 1/20th of what you think it’s worth after you’re gone.

i don’t want to carry WoTC’s bag here but so much of this boils down to, “not the way I would have done it”. JA and WoTC have vastly different design goals. He’s not wrong, but what he wants is just not what they cared about when making the book. The glowing reviews truely are stupid, but if...

Meh, I think that’s distinction guided by prejudice. The problem with both site is separating the wheat from the chaff. Or finding the needles in the haystack. even if both are loaded with needles. Like you I love MT Black’s stuff, but because DM’s guild is so vastly more popular, his stuff...

So many long interesting and revealing posts, thank you everyone for sharing. Just a FYI though, none of you are the target audience. Not cause you’re old, but because you spend hours online discussing whether or not you’re the target audience, it‘s cute you do, but says you are way to...

Sure, since there are half-stuff and I don’t blink at Dragonborn/gnome unions I guess i also consider all playable races somehow genetically related, but, not anything that I’ve ever bothered to parse out cause the 100k year distant family tree thing isn’t a subject of any of my games. Falls...

I feel like this very great game has not been very successful. It’s often discounted, think I picked up three books for it along with a bunch of forbidden lands stuff for like 10 bucks a year ago. Though, with the free league stuff, once you get the pdfs on a discount, since so beautiful, does...