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I'll assume you can trust the player to have the interests of the group and the table in mind, and to want to keep things fun rather than disruption for disruption's sake. Obviously, check in with them about expectations, but there's no reason this has to be a Bad Player thing. That being said...

If Wizards were to abandon the tabletop game in favor of these derivative products, that would definitely be a bad thing, but, on the plus side, if people are playing D&D-branded games, that is taking them much closer to D&D the tabletop game than any other non-rpg. So many of the folks I've...

"Narrative authority" feels like a very grownup way to describe the playground arguments of my early gradeschool days. Let's set aside the fact that, for many people playing Roleplaying Games, particularly, though not exclusively, D&D, the game is the point, with the role-playing as the...

This is fantastic character creation advice that I wish was more front and center in general. Choose the abilities you'd like to role-play, and then find the class that best utilizes those abilities. (Or not, if you like purposely handicapping your character by playing a high charisma, but only...

If I really had my druthers and were running a long campaign with a lot of player buy-in, I would probably scrap the default races/species and go with something new. I like the idea of what settings like Eberon did, where races were kept mechanically, but their backstories were completely...

When it comes to scheduling and setup, more serious than average for a leisure activity. We set time aside in our busy lives to make D&D night possible, so when somebody texts or e-mails everybody to say, "sorry, I don't feel like it tonight," that irritates me. On the other hand, it doesn't...

We started a D&D game at the new comic book store in my neighborhood, and I thought I'd share how it went, in case that is a route you choose to do. Two of us had separately approached the owner of the store (who has a large downstairs event space with tables and a mini-fridge) about organizing...

The question I have is simply how the move from "women only" to "women and gender non-binary only" crosses the line into "no boys allowed club" for you. Is this the post that put you over the edge? https://greenronin.com/lostcitadel/lost-citadel-news/ Or is there some other post not linked in...

I'm unable to find the quote which you are referring to. As I understand it, Green Ronin made it clear that, in addition to wanting to include women in this talent search, they also wanted to include people of non-binary gender. Is it the inclusion of non-binary folks that offends you, or is it...

I imagine that the reason to make the contest/search specifically for women is as much about attracting as many women, transgender and non-binary people as possible as it is about limiting the pool for the GR staff to sift through. By saying, "hey, we have a contest for You!", maybe they will...

Movement in combat is the area where you have to do the most hand waving, because breaking people's movement up into separate chunks in their initiative would be too tedious. That being said, the combat speeds quoted for humans in D&D are very conservative. An average human could easily cover 20...

I'm all for Green Ronin holding a talent search specifically seeking out talented women writers. I understand that targeted messages of support and interest towards women and minorities can rub some people the wrong way, but I really do think it is an essential part of helping to make our hobby...

Personally, I wouldn't mind a slightly longer list for flavor, but without much variation in the mechanics between them. I'm not interested in having 15 different mechanical swords to choose from, but I don't mind having a few more pages on descriptions of different kinds of weapons to help...

Not sure why the short rest is so foreign. I take a 45 minute lunch break every day, and usually a couple other short breaks in between. I usually take 3 breaks a day when hiking or doing other strenuous activity. (Adventuring seems to involve an awful lot of walking.) So, while 1 hour is...

You could treat multiple rolls from the monsters as "a group check." This is kind of the same as giving the monsters advantage: 4 goblins roll, but only 2 need to succeed for the group as a whole to succeed. And since you're a DM rolling behind the screen, why roll 4 dice when you can roll 2...

It sounds like you might need to recruit some new people into the fold! I'd suggest using Roll20 or similar to scratch your itch until you find some willing folks in your area. I remember first trying to get a D&D group together a few years ago, when I didn't know anybody in my town who played...

I'd take the inverse of this. For me, presenting swaths of characters as de facto evil and therefor fair game for slaughter presents a real world moral quandary, in a way that two non-evil characters potentially killing each other over conflicting interests does not. I don't need every session...

Does anybody know: is the plan to release these as standard WoTC 5e hardbacks (like the other adventure paths, monster manuals, etc), or are they planning a different route? D&D books have been great for being relatively cheap to purchase on Amazon, but the quality of the bindings hasn't blown...

Ha, quite true. B2 has a very special place in my heart for nostalgic reasons, and, if they do a good job, I'll probably pick up a copy of the hardback for that reason alone. On the other hand, as far as adventures needing a "conversion" to 5e rules, this one ain't at the top of the list! Keep...

At the time, I didn't place any restrictions or cascading penalties on it. The player could just keep getting sliced and beaten to ribbons while managing to stay conscious and on their feet. Some of the lingering injuries are quite debilitating, even before you start losing limbs, so the...