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I may have been unclear. In my opinion D&D isn't a game with a metaplot in the same sense as lets say classic Deadlands (with the possible exception of the between-editions-cataclysms). But over the decades the lore still has evolved, and it's meta in the sense of the evolved lore not...

Yes. Good lore isn't static, it evolves with the editions. And the evolving lore is something that for me is very enjoyable in itself, at this point a 50 year old meta story evolution that you can disregard or adapt to your own game to taste. As I wrote, I can live with a D&D without lore or...

I wouldn't even rate 5e as silver, lore wise. I really like my D&D with settings filled to the brim with canon lore, that I can mix, match and mold to my own flavor. Yesteryear, lore was selling, now it doesn't. Fine. It's not like there's a lack of lore over the editions that I can keep...

For me it's true. As a DM I find combat to be the most boring part of D&D, and I usually only do big setpieces. Sometimes I make encounters with combat fodder on the way to make the "dungeon" more plausible, but at least after tier 1 I usually don't play out these encounters in combat, I just...

In D&D 5e I'm lazy. We play over AboveVTT with Beyond, ie everything is instantly accessible for everyone, and my players have a very good grasp of their abilities. So if it's stuff I don't know, I just let them link stuff or tell me. And I have stopped trying to balance things for combat...

I GM in Foundry and AboveVTT. My setup is 2 x 24" for VTT and Discord, and a MacBook Air for notes etc. I'm looking to upgrade one 24 to 32" though for the VTT, it'll be easer on my old man eyes. Even though squinting is hot according to recent research reports.

I will die on a hill of crystal spheres!!1!

Well, since they are pretty useful as a DM I get them in bulk.

My table are very social/roleplaying focused, and it depends more on how chatty the players are with NPCs than anything else. But I try to leave as much room I can to the players while still describing/creating an exciting world, evocative milieus and interesting and living NPCs.

For business reasons the menu of D&Ds won't happen. But if WotC offered a 4e with full digital support I would pay good money for a subscription.

Sorry if this post came out bad, didn't mean to insult anyone. It's just something I've experienced a lot and is very, very tired of. But I try to formulate myself better :)

Yeah, sorry if that came off a bit harsh. I was more referring to literary snobs who wouldn't lower themselves to read genre fiction etc. And yes, I'm not a big fantasy guy myself. Kind of odd that I enjoy fantasy roleplaying, but as fiction to read it usually bores the socks of me. With...

I obviously don't agree, but I hope you are being ironic. Many of my best reading experiences comes from books I seriously doubted I would like. I actually pity folks that don't read a book just because of it's advertised genre.

I was one of the sPElLjAmMeR!1! crowd and was looking forward to the book, even if it included the astral plane. But from how Wiz describe it now, I actually think I'll pass on this one. The party in my current campaign is full on spelljamming, which I have based on homebrewing from the old...

My post was meant as tongue in cheek. Hand on heart, I couldn't care less about what people who don't like science fiction think about science fiction and it's subgenres. Well, almost :) Sci-fi has been looked down upon during most of it's existence as a defined genre, even though it's more...

With the path WotC has taken, I just wish they went all the way. Let race and heritage be all freeform skins, and have a bunch of options for starting features. I.e., you can have darkvision OR flight etc.

For 20ish years I used to hit the gym 3-6 times/week. Then 9 years ago I almost died from a crashed aorta valve and had to go through emergency surgery and a long rehab period. I have a mechanical valve now that works like a charm. But after that I only do walking and some free weights at home...

My standard MO in all trad systems is to define the McGuffin(s) and have rough ideas for clues and paths. Then in actual play I adapt to the players actions, whims and fancys, which usually leads to me scraping most of the original clues and paths, and reworking and adapting the McGuffin. But I...

If one don't like sci-fi, read Peter F Hamiltons Night's Dawn trilogy, and still claim that Space Opera mean particularly bad sci-fi, then one are objectively wrong and have failed at reading fiction ;-)

Yes, and it's one of the the best transformations from sci-fi to space opera I've read or watched.