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Oh, gods. My head creaks under the weight of ended worlds. I guess most recently, the personal discovery that I've been stanning D&D for three and a half decades based on the fact that I ignore half of it while running broke the axle of a perfectly good D&D5 post-Planescape exploration sequel...

I once had a Paladin of Conquest get betrayed and attacked by the party's Fighter under some kind of geas. Rather than draw a weapon and admit they were in any way threatened, my paladin hit him with Conquering Presence and then just beat him to death with their Aura of Conquest. Best...

Good. Not gonna pay them a subscription for the right to use products I've paid full price for either, but hey, a little competition can't be bad.

I am pretty immune to D&Disms at this point, maybe because I play too many RPG video games. I am always tickled when I encounter one out in the world, though, especially if it seems like the user is unaware. I will say that when Call of Duty got XP, my eyebrows rose a bit, and when Madden got...

I was really disappointed with her makeup on the movie poster, but apparently she rots progressively throughout the film, or something? That's amazing

I rhetorically suggested one individual was not showing empathy. As for the idea that calling out unempathetic behavior is a social sin: strongest possible disagreement. The idea that I'm inserting more of my own bias than you are of yours into this information-free zone is simply laughable...

Abusive exploits generally depend on wordplay in the rules (e.g., the peasant railgun), overinterpretation of punctuation (e.g., Jeremy Crawford's "being seen does not make you visible" interpretation of the invisibility condition), or hoping the dungeon master didn't fully understand the part...

His character doesn't. I guess you could interpret this in some other way than, "Edward only uses the spectacles when absolutely necessary," but I don't.

I opened my post by saying how difficult it was to read the situation given only the one-sided information provided, but I disagree that there isn't a strong suggestion of bullying here. Why does this keep coming up, when it is so obviously triggering to one of the players? How hard is it to...

It's hard to really make a judgment call about the situation based on what you've described of your perspective of the situation -- I think there are a lot of unknowns here, not the least of which is the nature of Edward's relationship with the other players outside of the game, which you...

If you can explain why believing dungeon mastery is an important responsibility is an emotionally charged position, I'm willing to at least listen and consider backing off it, but at the moment I'm not understanding you. Sure, and if you or your players don't find that fun, you should dodge it...

I appreciate the apology, and please consider it forgiven and forgotten. I regret giving the impression that I was trying to invalidate the OP -- the question was "would you use this?" and my answer was no followed by an explanation. I think there's strength and value in the proposal, I just...

I'm also curious about the Scene Distinction concept -- who decides when it has been removed? Is it a traditional dungeon master referee role, or table consensus? Does it matter? Does it work in either case (or a third case)?

Agree or disagree with my points to your heart's content, but accusing me of taking the subject matter personally just tells me you can only refute my case by suggesting I'm responding emotionally therefore not making valid judgments. Which, in turn, I do take personally -- because it's an...

No, worldbuilding is my favorite part of dungeon mastery. It's how I see my role, and how I derive most of my enjoyment from the game: creating a consistent world and seeing how the players bounce off of it. I wouldn't sign it over to random tables any sooner than I'd sign it over to ChatGPT...

Also, I gather the villain is, ultimately, Thay? Thay makes a really solid case for greatest perennial evil on Faerun. There have been more acute threats throughout history, and certainly bigger, more existential or metaphysical threats, but Thay is just kind of always there, chugging away in...

Well, now, wait a minute, wait a minute, are we talking about the Moria-Helm's Deep-Minas Tirith bit, or the walking through Mordor bit? There's an important distinction! I'm sure this movie will be fine, but only the sprightliest sprite, the nimblest elf, the wickedest witch, or the devil...

As an old Dragonlance fan, I quite enjoyed Ed Greenwood's The Wizard's Mask, but alas, it is only one book.

In an era when classic D&D is widely criticized for being socially backward, a dearth of ink is spilled over how there is essentially only one religion in each classic setting (and perhaps beyond that, allowing for transitive settings), and that religion is syncretic enough to accept that other...

This is only tangentially related, but I feel like the release of Al Qadim in the same year as Aladdin was the last time D&D did anything even remotely successful in the field of pop culture cross-promotion. Sorry, carry on.