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That's a somewhat odd way to interpret the question. "Do you play games set in Eberron?" "I answered no. Our last two games were set in Eberron, but if the players hadn't agreed to do that then we wouldn't have."

Hinders probably. They are at that moment very much outside the game world in their heads, thinking instead 'why are my fellow players all so stupid?'

I've had players with characters dumber than turnips, especially when enforcing rolling for ability scores. But either way, it just feels wrong to some people when they are the only one able to put two and two together, if they're supposed to be playing the party idiot. I have a player like...

I'm always intrigued watching clever people try and play stupid characters. You can sometimes see the internal struggle when they figure something out but don't want to say it aloud because they think their character would not be able to.

I've gotten my players to try out DCC RPG to scratch the old school itch. It definitely treats the ease of character death as a feature, and sets out its stall from day one so the players know what to expect. If you play it as recommended on the rulebook, each player behind with multiple 0-level...

Two things amaze me. 1. This discussion has gone on for 52 pages. 2. It's all about halflings, while everyone knows that it's gnomes that are the stupid race we should get rid of.

Who cares? The rogue in my game has all those proficiencies. Over the past year I can only remember him using the thieve's tools. Why worry about things that crop up so rarely?

So, I have always argued, 'Nope, let the side fall where they may. Character's dead.' However, for the first time recently I 'cheated' and didn't kill someone. I didn't hide the absurdly high damage roll, but I glossed over the specific special rules which meant that, in this particular...

Interesting to see everyone's different approaches here. Personally, I don't find setting up dynamic lighting in Roll20 to be at all onerous, but I'm going to be doing less of it in future anyway. As a couple of others have mentioned, I find that players dragging tokens around a map leads to...

And Warhammer. Warhammer is, of course, based on D&D originally, but it dropped a lot of the D&D baggage. There is mention of gnomes in early Warhammer sourcebooks, but they dropped gnomes because everyone knows that gnomes are stupid. Halflings, however, have been a staple throughout every...

If your primary concern is just real-world associations distracting people; then synonyms are your friend. The Sable City. The Ebon City. If you're concerned that even this masked association with colour is problematic, then just ask yourself what the blackness in your original name symbolised...

You're thinking about it completely backwards. I'm not talking about retroactively inventing something to justify why half-Orcs don't exist. I just already have an idea in my head of how I want orcs to work; and sothat's part of the pre-defined setting. I don't think about adhoc explanations for...

It's easy to justify. "Why can't I play a half-orc?" "Orcs don't have children, they are spawned from vegetal growths in the birthing pits of the Great Maw." "Why can't I play a gnome." "No such thing." It seems very limiting to be to think that you're only allowed to conceive of campaign...

I've just started on Remembrance of Things Past, which I've had sitting around for ages but never read. Quite enjoying it so far. I can already see why it's so long, since there is a lot of introspection and little of anything actually happening.

Indeed. I'm surprised how many have an opinion on this. I can see asking questions about whether certain laws of physics work the same way, as that can come up when a player does something stupid. But how could the existence of genes affect anything? I'm struggling to imagine how this could...

Don't worry, embrace your snobbishness. I also look down my nose at people who complain that a game containing nothing more than addition and subtraction of single- or, at worst, double-digit numbers, has too much maths. But that doesn't mean I want a very crunchy system, at least as I would...

I can't help but notice that the 'books you hate that everyone likes' and 'books you like that everyone hates' threads are both listing all of the same books. We're doing something wrong here.

I seem to be a bit of an outlier here. I'm now in my late thirties, and I've only been playing a few years. Never got into TTRPGs as a kid. Didn't know anyone who played DnD; we all played Warhammer.

I quite enjoyed Steinbeck; but if we're talking about American classics; the author I cannot read is Jack Kerouac. Tedious. It does indeed read like he splurted his books out while drunk and never bothered to revise anything. That's supposed to a virtue. It's not - the final product is...

Magician was for some time my favourite book but, as with Zardnaar, I read it when I was an adolescent boy, so perhaps that is the intended audience. Been a long time since I read it, but I'd probably enjoy it for nostalgia's sake. Try reading Faerie Tale, totally unconnected to his other...