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I know, but let me get one more in…just because a bunch of people talked about it a lot doesn’t make it a crisis.

Does anything matter anymore anyway at this point? What is an orc really? Is different just another way of being the same? Does a thing have to be a thing? Reality is what you make it. It’s just more of the same. Everything is compatible with everything if you’re not obsessed with it not...

3 goes on page 1. 4 & 5 are notes, a real note taker has pages or journals for that if they’re into it, the lazy fills up the backsides of pages 1 and 2 with them. 6 is part of 2. Max two pieces of paper.

you’re confusing cool with popular. Like Netflix and Disney and WoTC aren’t cool. I’ll allow that Larian might still be. Those companies might release something cool, but they absolutely aren’t determining what’s cool, what gets a wide release and gets and marketing force to be popular, sure...

Lol, no, but they do run companies. And those companies copy upstart competitors run by people in their 20s or they hire someone to tell them what’s cool.

Old school adventures aren’t really my thing, but I will say that Goodman does a pretty good job of converting them. However, they are faithful conversions, not updates. What they meant is that they have not changed the encounters to be more balanced. They left them janky like the originals...

I hope there’s lots of tedious debate about the prime directive. Those were my favorite episodes of TNG. I joke, but those episodes were the ones where they discover a strange new world. I hope the next season focuses on discovering strange new worlds and slowly unfold mysteries about them...

Players new to RPGs tend to do well at any game that doesn’t require them to know a lot of stuff or has a great DM. Need more than just new players are cautious, here, cause some are not. Some love a DCC funnel when they discover they can go crazy cause they have more spaghetti to throw at the...

So, two readings here, what skill does a DM need high level abilities at, and what is the most important skill for “high level DMs”. So two answers… The most important skill for a DM to need high level abilities at is the much mentioned, reading the room/communication/knowing what your players...

I think it’s now a question of fork around and find out. It’s on the DM, they’re given the base librarian, maybe the one you meet has +2 strength and proficiency in heavy weapons so the great sword they have stashed under the table will make you regret thinking you could waltz in and mess with...

I’m moderately curious about the venue for kids birthday parties where the birthday girl gets a free fedora….

If that’s what they’ve done, make there be no humanoid monster (except maybe a “turned” one) I see what they’re attempting to do, and appreciate the effort, but don’t think it really solves what they’re attempting to solve. Nice start though.

I mean I don’t have all the books, but what!?!

So Orcs have been brought into the fold, another species existing in the world like Dwarves, Humans, Elves, Gnomes, etc. No longer others, monsters. it’s a pretty big break with the past, but there we go, fine. There’s still plenty of sentient others who for tribes, cultures, and maybe cities...

I like discovering, or leading players to the weird demented things going on in the dark corners od the adventuring realms. Basically DCC’s wheelhouse. So DnD stuff like the Yuan-ti I love. But they’re relatively fixed, once you know them, you basically know them, they can get up to all kinds...

I really liked Tonguez’s response, but I’d dial it back a bit from how dramatic it seemed. A deterioting reality, material plane, where other planes are starting to occasionally bleed in. Something maybe on the order of Fringe tv show. Rare, but constant events and monsters from other planes...

I think the WotC’s lack of development of a competitive blitz chess style of DnD would be what mearls means about lack of different styles of play. Maybe? There are a myriad of ways to play DnD, but all are cooperative parties wandering around. Parties going head to head would be different.

Also, did they create their characters, or are you handing out pre-gens? If created, great, find a way do integrate, hook them, but don’t expect they are invested in the character yet, since noobs. If handing out pre-gens, auction them off with one sentence about the motivation, “who wants...

I guess my observation on your plan would be that you’re introducing everyone to the mechanics and set dressing of of the game first, on day one, with great enthusiasm, for sure, because you think that’s the important thing to know, or what is most fun. But you don’t know these people, and you...

Insight checks have unknown, to the player, DCs or are rolled in opposition to a behind the screen roll. About one of only thing I roll in secret. And will be given even if impossible. Some creatures can tell perfect lies. Most can’t but if you don’t know the DC or the opposition role...