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Just feel the fighter covering both Str and Dex concepts makes less and less sense to me as time goes on.

My big change, off the cuff: Remove spellcasting from the Ranger base class. Beef up the Fighter non-combat features to be in line with the Rangers. Retool both Fighter and Ranger so Fighter is expressly the Martial class based on STR and Ranger for DEX.

You would be hard pressed to find any period of history in which bigotry, cruelty and oppression are not normalized towards some segment of the population. You can certainly feel free to downplay or ignore these elements if that is what will make your table comfortable. A frank discussion during...

Same. Feeling super dirty. But it does emphasis an important point: This is happening because base, eager bigotry is not profitable for a large corporation like Hasbro. And while corporate diversity efforts are nearly always calculating, slick and honestly disingenuous, this is movement towards...

I'm sorry. I feel you are missing/overlooking my point previous. Racist stereotypes are not restricted to physical traits. They also speak to behavior. That a given person can not help their actions due to their race is a key feature of racism. Really of all bigotry. So we get that Latinos are...

Part of the objection is simply that biological essentialism when it comes to behavior is in essence the basis of racism.

It's also worth noting that this is not in fact a new issue. Grappling with or gleefully ignoring the moral implications of violence are as old as RPGs. Keep on the Borderlands has non-combatant women and children peppered among the various orc/goblins/ect found in the caves that the PC...

So this is of course a proper hornet's nest but I am curious about one factor. In Tolkien's cosmology, do Orcs have souls? As in, are they complete, living beings, or are they just flesh machines? In DnD, to the best of my knowledge, Orcs have souls. Orcs have Gods. Orcs are judged upon death...

Best answer i can give is that if a game session ended with no dice ever being rolled, I wouldn't consider it a failure, but if a game session had zero story to it and was just rolling dice I would. It's the only metric I can think of to address such an absolutist question honestly.

Exactly this. Look, the best way to used settings for me is to fill genre slots. Don't care for Ravenloft as a setting, but want tools for Horror? Van Richten has some things for you. Have an elaborate social setting but want some simple rules for framework? Take a look into Stryxhaven. Epic DnD...

I'm pretty sure there is zero real chance of it happening. It's a proper example of how licensed properties have a harsh legacy. My wife and I love the show and I just wish I had a real copy of the rules.

Now if they can somehow reprint the Leverage RPG so I can get a copy for less than a kidney...

So I have two seperate takes on this: One one hand, GMs need to trust that players won't cheat. If you do catch a player cheating, you should talk with them. I dont think it is a "one and done" situation. Also, cheating for an advantage over a NPC threat is less egregious than cheating over a...

https://tabletopaudio.com/ Love this site.

This proves my point however. If they had said, "We want to do Mesoamerica, so lets to Maztica" and had, rightly, changed elements of it that just won't fly with contemporary audiences, "fans" would have complained about the changes. If the choice is between making some sort of change to make...

Agreed. One of the basic building blocks for creating conflict is placing barriers in front of the PCs that they seek to overcome.

The issue of language as it relates to larger issues of cultural sensitivity surrounding the hobby is a thorny one to say the least. A simulationist model is fraught in it's own ways both in terms of game complexity and usefulness. What do you want languages to accomplish? From a narrative...

It kinda comes across that new Mesoamerican inspired adventures must use Maztica as their locale under this logic, which is on it's face reductive. We don't require that there be only one Germanic pastiche in all of DnD for example. Why should a new writer have to write within an existing...

~on reading the One DnD Doc for character origins~ Someone pick up that phone. Because I called it.

Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halfling, Gnome, Dragonborn, Orcs Then Lineages: Aasimar, Tiefling, Genasi. All can be applied to the races above. Then Race Specific Lineages: The preexisting subraces for the above races. Half Elf and Half Orc are also lineages now for humans, but rename them to...