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For games I have never run, I like to use their setting. I assume that the rules the game designers chose, reflect the lore and world they want GMs to create. Even for D&D, in which I have created adventures and sandboxes, I still adhere to most of the already published lore. (I may tweak a...

Have any of you played Candlekeep? The last few levels, 10th - 14th for us, have been absolutely brutal and deadly. And how many complaints have I heard about Horde, Rise, and the end of Rime being too difficult for a group the suggested level. I will say this, I believe a lot of it comes to DM...

Oh, I am not blaming anyone. I was just throwing a hypothesis out there. I even stated it could be wrong. I was just speculating on the why, while also admitting we don't know the why.

Interesting to note, and I very rarely share this, but I feel a open about it at this time. During the EQ reign, I visited headquarters several times with a beta EQ TTRPG. (My friend worked for the company.) It was card based, and I got so far as to have several of the medium level corporates...

Then maybe the majority of D&D players have always been on the younger side. That would still validate my hypothesis. Again, no idea if it is correct, but this fact doesn't disprove it.

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I do have a thought on this. Many of the new players are young, and if memory serves correctly, we didn't really gravitate towards those species until we were a bit older. The rationale for this is people want to play something striking, beautiful, grand, and not cute or esoteric. So maybe just...

Take the words need out of your sentence and replace it with "can." Then replace the next part for "expecting the player to read the title of the book." And I have always clearly stated (especially at this point), it is both the DM's and player's responsibility during session zero to lay out...

No. When we are talking about FR, the DM has the final say. When we are talking about any other locale, the DM has the final say. There is no contradiction in my statement. The thing you think is a contradiction - the DM can work background features in no matter the setting - is not a...

That is truth, but my point is really that they can be squeezed in - even if it runs on a mechanic that is Eberron-only-ish. (I also think the DM has the right to say no.)

I'm going to go ahead and throw this one in for the warrior in MERP.

I'm sorry. Maybe I am not being clear. You are not using the book, you are using a line from the book. Here is what it says about houses: "Long ago, the families that carry the marks joined together to form Dragonmarked houses. Over the course of centuries, these houses have used their gifts to...

We agree. I just feel like you and others are saying this sometimes can't happen, and it is then that I disagree.

No, it doesn't! It talks about their presence in Eberron. I am reading it right now. Again, this is one of those takes where something is taken so out of context because they didn't read the book. The houses are in context of the book, which is titled - Eberron.

A bit of hyperbole here. Why would everyone take a background that is difficult, especially after a session zero where you explained to them - this is Barovia, you will be a fish out of water. So you better take something generic for it to work. And to be fair, Ravenloft is a bit of anomaly...

All of those are easily added. The DM doesn't have to do anything. The Forgotten Realms is one of many realms and planes of existence in the D&D-verse. Someone from a Dragonmarked house, great. They're from a Dragonmarked house. In many D&D campaigns, and in several published adventures, they...

I specifically stated that it might take work on the DMs part. But to say a background "doesn't work" in a specific setting is silly. The features listed, just like skills, are transferrable. They can work in a variety of settings and situations. The answer is how hard does the DM want to...

You don't need to "fight" in order for the DM to know what the blacksmith's strengths and weaknesses are. What if the party strongman wants a bit better price, so he looks the blacksmith up and down, and then poses that he can beat him in arm-wrestling. The blacksmith has an ego, and says he'll...

I have no problem with you representing the common NPCs of your created world as, well, we'll call them 10'ers. Straight 10's on all ability scores. But, that cannot, and should not be the popular view. Let's look at 5 common professions: The dwarven blacksmith. You mean to tell me that dwarven...