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I'm an old man. The vibe I've read off of the original post, and follow-ups, really makes me think of a college freshman who just discovered communism and 'The best way is if we're all a collective and we all are equals and share' and if only us fellow proles knew what we were doing. You...

Not exactly. Using their restaurant destroying coupons analogy, the publisher comes to your house and actually destroys them.

I'm definitely waiting to see OP reply, especially if they have connection to this system. Brennan may say it's a masterpiece, but ... is he going to run Dimension 20 using that or D&D? I'm pretty sure I know the answer. Critical Role has Daggerheart and Candela Obscura, and play both. But...

Something I've found handy personally, and I don't know if there are others out there who've done this, but there's been a few 'seasons' where game designer John Wick does 31 Days of Character Creation. It's exposed me to many games I've heard of but maybe never been exposed to like Pendragon...

By 'equal at the table', what I meant to state was that the DM has an equal right to enjoyment at the table. If both the DM and the players have enjoyment from 'Well, they never check the floor for traps so I'll put pit traps in' 'Oh, now they're using ten foot poles to avoid those traps, so...

I do feel, from my experience, narrative roleplaying was 'strange' to him. Now, players were expected to take roles and act accordingly, but I don't think he was a fan of players giving Big Theater Kid Energy at the table. And as far as player vs DM mentality, I think he saw that as a...

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AI will never replace our Snarf. I won't let it.... Now THAT should be the basis of the next Terminator remake.

I'm reminded of something I once saw on Ronald Reagan, and they said he was the kindest man, who would literally help someone out, give them the shirt off his back... and then turn around and sign a bill increasing punishments for homelessness. We all are complex, and capable of being good...

Nah, that's just Snarf being Snarf

I'm a big fan of this. A step farther: in John Wick's Orkworld, not only is session zero for building your party - a tribe of orks - but those same character points in the pool allow you to customize the tribe. Do you have a powerful dowgma (tribe mother)? Has your tribe learned how to use...

I like this idea. For some reason, it made me think of the difference between the first Death Star and the second. It's not my bit, but... the first station was operational. It was a full-on military base and staffed. The second? Not complete, mostly filled with contractors and workers.

It's John Wick's dog - have the Cult interfere or seriously damage things the party wants or has planned. Make it personal, make it dirty and nasty and the players will have every desire to wipe the Cult off the planet. Doubly so for loot and power

I look at this, and I compare it to the brush-up we've seen recently with born Wizards and Paizo, and I'm like... this is how you address stuff. I could be wrong.

I think Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale would be good to cover, because, other than the Dalelands, those have been the main focus of a lot of the computer games people may be familiar with. I grew up with the SSI Gold Box games, so most of my knowledge still is largely Dalelands/Cormyr focused...

I'm reminded of the Old Grey Box, and I'm pretty sure Ed's intention was to never develop Sembia officially. I know things change, but just a random historical fact that areas were carved out specifically for DMs to develop on their own. Okay - went and grabbed my book. DM's sourcebook to the...

I liked the saints article and have used some of the ideas over the years. There's another article in Dragon - not sure when - called "Small Gods" I believe, and had ideas about villages with a local god or the protective stones from Temple of Doom. I used it in a game I ran that was eternal...

I believe - and it's been awhile since I read the original Chronicles(?) - but I believe Tanis had auburn hair. And Sturm, I'm pretty sure, was always depicted with black, or at least dark brown, hair I believe.

You joke about number 6, but it reminded me of the power of the Oxford comma. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/think-commas-don-t-matter-omitting-one-cost-maine-dairy-n847151

The build metagame -- people up-comment were talking about giving the consumers what they want. There is no D&D meta build war without websites like we're on. You can see it in threads. The books are the books - it's the fans on websites and on Youtube that spend hours making meta builds and...