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Poly used to be here with great news and commentary but now Polygon. But more seriously why does this article specify a constrained and exact measurement of success through BackerKit? It seems a strange way (possibly calculated) to overlook ongoing success from several different publishers and...

I have sadly taken a break from believing what people say on YouTube . It is so easy for them to “manufacture outrage” without believing any thing they say. (And many of them have extremely believable delivery.)

I guess it also depends on the players, if bargaining with dragon leads to the expectation of being a new item on the menu. But maybe the players have the expectation that the dragon is helping you because it hurts someone the dragon really dislikes. And if the players don’t figure out why then...

I think some of it comes from “serial killers can’t like vanilla ice cream” because serial killers are unknowable, edgy, and weird not you know, very troubled people. So they think monstrous NPCs would not want or need “normal” things.

I was talking with a game master (not on ENWorld) when I realized why I might disagree with many people. They believed only the “standard” ancestries should be NPCs. In other words if the player characters are getting rumors, quests, or advice it’s going to be a human, dwarf, elf, gnome...

https://www.cbr.com/fiends-as-player-characters-dnd/ Player “I can’t play me Gnoll because Gnolls are fiends.” Dm “ what’s the Gnolls motivations?” Player “..” Dm “ sounds great, let’s play”

Mail versions would be nice. A surprise package delivery for sure.

Ducks illustrated

I think of this as the Ravenloft problem. Lots of people see Ravenloft as the same thing as Forgotten Realms and dismiss it as Forgotten Realms with horror mechanics. But really the setting and rules differences do make a difference. People claiming that they don’t make a difference are nearly...

My beginners mistake. I thought it was an interesting example of an AI generating a nuanced and informational response (tons better than previous generations of ChatGPT.) But the complete lack of response quickly told me I had mistaken the appeal of the article. I was happy but a little...

You can create random encounter tables for your wilderness areas. Its more work, but then the same encounter table can cover all the swamp blocks, or whatever type of wilderness.

But will it be Minecraft compatible 🤔😆

Fate Blood on the Trail DriveThruRPG I believe has rules for player character vampires Nitrate City DriveThruRPG I believe has rules for multiple supernatural Player Characters. Both are PWYW on DriveThruRPG. Neither are in 21 century modern settings though.