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I don’t have an opinion on this word but for the past few years they’ve been “correcting” themselves by reduction, removing stuff, neutering words, etc. And they had some problems to correct to be sure, but they didn’t chose to do it with new interesting weird stuff, they’ve usually corrected...

I’d be curious about a list of monsters that got more “interesting”. Not necessarily more options, but where the options are more distinct or thematic.

There is no Gary Gygax. Like, all those tables Snarf jokes about. Tables not alway consistent, rules and adventures he wrote, or just edited, or didn’t edit, he just went forward making up as he went along, or naval gazed his past ideas. Was all about rules, ignored the one’s he wrote. So...

Civ VII. It needs some work (a lot of work, but kid and I still like). I’ve heard great good things about choices and actions in Avowed. Meaning that they matter, in more interesting ways than just forks. Will never forget the amount of time I spent agonizing over a couple choices in Skyrim...

The key is finding what players want to spend their time on, not what they want to spend their gold on. Maybe they want to build a Keep so they can have a Keep and we can do the mini game for that. And there are lots of ideas out there on the costs for bases and stuff, but not a lot of them...

Make failure a new more interesting challenge. Just like winning should lead to something new and more interesting, so should failure. We’re all coming back and playing this game again next week is my base philosophy, and each week should be more fun than the last. So, if this week, we’re...

I think multiclassing is used to game the system most of the time, for extra power cause they read on the internet they could do a thing. I would allow it if someone, for whatever reason, wanted to dual class and sorta alternate levels in two classes. Great, whatever. But one level dips are...

That AI book is super underrated. I’m sure you have a principled reason for avoiding it, but there’s lots to be had there. The adventure is linear, but good, hits a lot of highlights to show off FR and classic DnD stuff. The linearity/railroad aspect is offset with the downtime stuff of...

One of my favorite posters commented in this thread, about ignoring someone, I figured out it was me. Damn. The internet sucks, but I’m still awesome. I tell myself, but now feeling very alone. I guess I transgressed,but damn. I’ll be quiet, I don’t matter.

What? I got my Dungeon Denizens book and t-shirt like a month ago. Love the t-shirt, picked up as an add on in backerkik, so obviously misfits inspired/ripoff. Sad not 100% cotton. Anyway, you not in US, why delayed? The stat blocks are just a bit above average, but the narratives on the...

yeah, you’re insisting some segment of the market matters more for some essential reason. Nope. What I said, you don’t matter. Grognards that buy every book don’t matter, they buy every book. Grognards that don’t buy any books anymore, don’t matter, they don’t buy books. I suppose those...

As a hater, I disagree. I think the serial over episodic had something to do with it. But as a hater, the problem was that DS9 was ultimimatly about everyone’s character development and relationships. That’s why people like it, I think, because the characters I find super irritating were...

I don’t think there’s a limit to the number of devils or demons. I don’t think they have a fixed population that could be eliminated. I think there’s an endless supply on each side, the war will never end. PCs can’t change anything in The Abyss or Nine Hells, everyone gets replaced. It’s...

This is great to hear, makes me feel that even my dismissive drunk hot takes are not the worst thing around here, I should do more of them. Seriously though, I feel like I’ve done some embarrassing things here, but not that.

I know everyone wants to believe they matter, their takes are useful and important, and their $50 purchase, or not, has some impact. But, sorry, you are not important. YOU and people like you, don’t matter. No matter who YOU are. 50k organized grognards don’t matter for a book selling 1MM...

I certainly wouldn’t bet in a casino not using fresh precision dice, cause they would be scamming, but 30 yr old cat chewed on d6s truely roll just fine for DnD play. It’s all superstition beyond weighted dice. Which are funky in a d20, cause the other high likelihood numbers next to the 20...

I think the main issue is that high level play gets too far divorced from reality. Sure, there’s campaign burnout, but really, I think most people want to play in reality (material plane) or tweaked reality (faewild, shadowfell) but to do high level play, you really need to leave those confines...

One off settings are all kinda meh, imho. I predict this one will be great for some, meh for others, and not ever be supported again by WotC. Like all the others. I feel like WotC believes releasing on DMsGuild is ongoing support for all their settings. I’d like them to develop another...

I assume dice with things in them, things other than glitter/flecks, like skulls or banjos, or other chunks, are gonna be unbalanced. Dice with half and half clear/opaque resins also seem suspect. But outside that, most dice are fair enough. People are way more suspicious and unreliable than...

At my table, everyone has (or picks for the day) their own d20s (pair). Not locked in, you can switch mid session. Damage dice are communal, and we have a bunch, color coded for each size so easy to identify. We roll in dice trays, in all of the edge cases (all the weird scenarios above) my...