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It has varied a lot over the last few years. Recently we've been playing pretty consistently biweekly, but each session had been relatively short, around 3 hours on average. Before that, last year scheduling was hard (largely because of myself, as I've been working a lot), so we would meet...

This is pretty much my default style, which I've also seen described as a "story-sandbox". Just keep rapid-firing plot-hooks at the players and then follow their lead. I ran a full sandbox, for the first time in over a decade, in-between my 4e and 5e games. It was a consciously short and...

In my current game, the Big Bads Behind the Curtains are the Vorlons... I mean, the High Elves. EDIT: Although, the Vorlons themselves wouldn't be too bad, actually. Give them a Warforged spin.

I'm European and it's pretty popular here.

It's the highest grossing TMNT movie. MLP is pretty darn popular for what it is. It's no Transformers, but you don't need to be Transformers to be considered successful.

This is totally foreign to me. As far as I'm concerned: This is not a rule, but a piece of lore, and the sole purpose of lore is DM inspiration. If it hadn't previously been established in the campaign (by the DM) that manticores only appear in deserts, then that's just not a thing. It's not a...

I find it an easy read for the most part, but it's still massive amounts of rule text, so 4 or 5.

For those kind of instances, I always just assume we don't see the week long repairs to ship's fried circuits.

My games tend to feature a lot of humorous elements, but I generally play them completely straight in-world. I'm just kinda unable to not bring the funneh. I was able to during a period in my teens, but it wore off.

Sounds like a DEX check to me if diving and DEX save if falling in. d4 bludgeoning damage per 10 feet.

This. As henchmen or plot reasons. The players always run them in combat, with occasional veto from me (in case of #2).

We've been running Against the Giants and we're most of the way through G1, expecting to wrap it up next session. Conversion of G1, from 1e to 5e, took me less than an hour right before the first session. If anything, my conversion made it a bit too easy combat-wise (the characters started at...

I think I would count non-magical ammo fired by a magical bow as magical, but perhaps as a step lower than the bow: So an arrow shot by a +2 bow, would be considered a +1 arrow for such purposes and a +1 bow would not impart any magical essence to the arrow. As far as I've noticed, 5e doesn't...

I get the feeling that they used to think of them as separate brands, but that now they're moving away from that and trying to consolidate D&D as the brand.

Some tidbits on Giants: Giants consider Humans and Halflings to be absolutely delicious. In fact, it was the main reason for their original invasion, which they call the Great Feast. They never really expected it to last forever, but it was still totally worth it while it lasted...

We had a session last night. It was short, less than three hours of play, and we had problems focusing on the game in front of us, so we kept going off on tangents. We were thus not able to finish off G1 as expected, but it produced a few tidbits on the wider world: After defeating the...

Headcrab zombies!

Zooming in on the history of the Flan: The Flan is littered with ruins of past civilizations. Of which there are *a lot*. Practically every town and city is built on the ruin of something or another, and you'd be hard pressed to find a mountain that hasn't been hollowed out for a dungeon...

I like it too! And I made it up on the spot, although the addition of Aboleths was inspired by having recently read this at the time. I try to prompt my players to poke at my logic as much as possible when it comes to world building stuff (less fond of it in action-resolution). I both like the...

And a few little tidbits on Wodan's history: It's absolutely ancient. It's written history (if everything were to be collected together) goes back a million years, although most people would only be aware in broad strokes of the last couple of millennia of local history. Wodan's history is...