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Going through my chaotic notes, I see that I'm not going to be able to do this on session-to-session basis. For future sessions, sure, but not for the ones already played. I don't remember exactly in what order these trivia bits were thought up, so I'm piling them together by subject matter...

If we used Passive Perception (which we don't), we'd just use the normal proficiency bonus.

I'm totally married to it. Although I hadn't made the connection until now. Now I like it even more. The Flan. The Flan. The Flan.

I started 5e off with running Against the Giants with my regular group. It's been going well, if slowly (or infrequently, as we're all busy people with difficult schedules), and we're about finished with G1. When I sat down with the group for the first session/character generation, I hadn't...

It is a bit swingier, I guess, but we like that. It was a big hit with us during the playtest, it just flows better for us.

We use the proficiency dice, although we've been using them since the start.

I've always gone with that most souls simply don't want to come back, even Kings. Raise Dead only works on a minority of the population (mostly PCs and villains and others with a quest-fetish). But, as plot points, I've used both "King Who Refuses to Stay Dead and Let Go of The Goddamn Throne"...

And one of it's main empires is ruled by hundreds (or was it thousands?) of bickering max-level wizards, descended from alien invaders. I love the Known World.

Was that an official thing, as I've always played them as being chilly cold.

Haven't caught myself in any old-school-igans so far in 5e, but in 4e I made healing spells do damage to undead, as I'd always done. A few levels in I realized that a) it wasn't a feature of 4e, and b) it really ruined any undead big bad fights—the players quickly figured out that they could...

Our group prefers group initative and we experimented on a few variations (d6 on both sides, PCs alternating rolling, one PC/NPC on either side rolling based on marching order/circumstances) until we arrived at a simple group check against a static enemy DC. I really like rolling group...

I've always assumed eggs, because dragons.

Cool. That gives me closure. That was the whole point of my foray into this thread. I have limited interest in RPG debates. I just like to understand what other people like and why, and I try to give likewise in return. PS didn't teach me to GM and I couldn't tell you what did. It was no...

It's around here that I just hit a wall. Keep bumping into this wall. This makes no sense to me. Moral reform is a thing. Yet morals are subjective. Also this topic has gotten away from me some. My objective was to explain what it was I (and to a certain extent others) like about Planescape...

What about giving them Inspiration? We're basically talking about the greater-than-the-average NPCs, much like the PCs.

I didn't drop them, as this was PS, where they aren't objective. Which I think I and other posters keep trying to explain. PS makes a big deal out of Primers being wrong and pig-headed in their objective thinking. In PS, that it's all relative, is the point. . EDIT: I think a large part of...

In the past, I've generally reskinned Half-Orcs as simply being Orcs, but that's when I've treated Orcs as a less monstrous race than the D&D baseline, but still very warlike and barbarian. In my 4e game, Orcs never came into play, but in my recently wrapped up S&W game, I introduced Orcs to...

Here's a caveat: PS is the only place where I've ever used the Great Wheel as a cosmological framework. I don't think the GW is that important to PS, really--one could easily replace it with a different setup, as long as it features Outer Planes as Shaped by Mortal Belief. But I can't really...

I see it more as saying unadulterated sweetness is too sweet. As in, "Can't build a society on nothing but goodness, you need structure and law—otherwise it's vulnerable to corrupting influences."

So, to clarify, what is the actual debate going on now about exactly?