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Spoiler alert. TL;not gonna R: Suggestions for rewriting Death House to remove all the dead children? Our group loves Ravenloft; we've played multiple multi-year campaigns in the setting in different systems. We are excited to go back and start again. Looking over Death House, the (free...

1. Ravenloft was hinted like 5 times in the article. Hmm, I wonder what's coming out soon? :) 2. WoW is actually getting away from the 1 mammoth release and trying as hard as they can to get to multiple small releases a year. Because they saw that their players got bored too quickly. (To...

This is definitely the best advice on my specific issues, thank you! I had hoped this thread would be more about people's experiences with mid-level save-or-stuck spells, and how they felt about them, and how that compared to my experience. But it's sort of turned into a "here's some advice...

Oh I know. Totally hear you. No idea how to change this. I just try to keep things as interesting as possible and highlight everyone at some point, but billions of dollars didn't get spent to create devices and software that could be put down easily.

Ha, funny. But it can be. The woman in the image on the front page is drawn in a sexist way: she doesn't have agency, she's drawn in a way to please the presumed male audience. You can't justify it with backstory; her outfit makes no sense in any practical way. It's clearly drawn to show...

Well, except that the endangered player has no agency. And 99% of the time, "do more damage" is still the correct response to that question. The best way to save the character is to kill the baddies as quickly as possible - which was also the goal at the beginning. Either that, or you try to...

I'm sure their art is, and I've seen some great examples from them, too - I'm not trying to make broad implications, just talking about this one image. And they're also doing great work on diversity, I know. But "cultural" factors don't do anything to justify the fact that this image is...

The thread title is a little dramatic, but now that 5.0 is a little older and campaigns are a little more along, how are people feeling about spells that are not save-or-die, but rather save-or-can't-do-anything? (Mid-campaign spells, typically.) I find they tend to create two weird situations...

Of course! Why couldn't you? Ultimately "good" and "evil" are just tropes. What matters is the perspectives of the characters and how they react to the world around them. It would be very easy to have a lawful good "boss" that simply had a different perspective of how the world should work...

As someone on this board once told me: they were never going to write a crit rule that made everyone happy. Like others suggested, I agree you should just do whatever makes the most sense to you. I didn't even realize that we've apparently been playing our own house rule so long that I didn't...

We end up completely ignoring vision 99% of the time. It's a personal choice; I know some people like that stuff - we just don't bother. So every character having darkvision works really well for us.

Thanks for the info! Wow, and Pathfinder is only ~6 years old. I would have guessed an image like that was from the 90s. The industry is still changing very, very slowly.

I'm looking for a good adventure set in the elemental planes - specifically the planes of fire and air, preferably (all Djinni and Efreeti and whatnot). Ideally it would be a mid-level, campaign-style thing, but anything would be great. We're playing 5.0, but the edition doesn't really matter...

Looking over the content briefly, my first impression is: wow, you can tell that D&D needs more women in the game. Especially the fantasy art community - it REALLY needs more women. For the tiny handful of female monsters, the design aesthetic is the old school, sexist look for every one...

Haven't read this discussion either but 1) talking about being something that isn't straight is NOT talking about sex. It's like talking about whether someone is a boy, girl, or something in between. Or if someone is a different ethnic background. Or what food you like. 2) How / why / what...

Haven't read all 51 pages because I think the 2nd post sums up some of the points that are missed fairly well. This is an honest, well-intentioned post that is actually a little off-base and accidentally becomes very insulting. First: being transgender is something that has happened since...

It's been a little while since I ran this game but I just wanted to bump this post with what the party did, which was both a great idea and completely succeeded! First, they already had discovered a necklace of adaptation. It's a pretty minor magical item that allows you to breathe in any...

There is no carrying ability; not sure what you mean by that. You call them instantly to your side; it's not like awaken - it's just there. Nothing has to be in the area. Traveling only at night would be reasonable, I agree.

Without even being a RBGM I have to agree that this seems ... problematic. :)

As I said, a giant bat is really not a good combat creature. In fact it's kind of a liability, given that you'd likely be more than zero feet off the ground when riding it and it can be killed pretty easily. But that's not the point. Constant, available-anytime flying is huge. It...