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This thread is making me very uncomfortable. There is a long history of western scholars drawing a line through the Mediterranean in order to elevate the importance of ancient greece and selectively claim it for (white) "European" identity and dismiss the importance of geographically African...

I think I'm out of interest in 5e; there's just too many more compelling games out there to try. I have a more distant interest in what happens with one dnd though. I've tried to read through some of these playtests but it the way the game is written is just too tedious to read. I'm talking...

I feel like turning slavery into a set of skill/tool proficiencies trivializes it even further.

Totally! But what does this have to do with fantasy adventure games? Or, to turn the question around, are fantasy adventure games the best vehicle to explore disturbing and upsetting topics from our real history?

That would be a funny guessing game

A couple or three related points Manichaeism: Good vs Evil, Light vs Dark. This can be one of the empowering and fun things about heroic fantasy fiction. In the fantasy world, there are clear boundaries between good and evil. The villain always does villain-y things, and the heroes are always...

I was on the NG patreon, so I was getting access to the PDFs, and have the wormskin zines from before that. But it just strikes me as so odd to purchase a retroclone just to play one singular setting that hasn't even fully come out (and apparently these people exist, because they were mad about...

Hopefully now people will stop complaining. Though I'm still astounded that there are people who backed OSE just because they wanted to play in a setting (Dolmenwood) that was still in development.

Innovation-via-bafflement is my favorite kind! Not sure. There was anger at wotc over the ogl thing, but it looks like people are back to breathlessly debating the proposed UA changes and what has been nerfed and buffed and so forth. It seems reasonable to think that eventually people will...

Starting over! I became uninspired with the megadungeon I had planned. I think my weakness is that I want things to be thematically evocative and also make sense, and it's hard to do that at the mega scale even when working one room-ish at a time. Anyway, I'm currently a player in a...

I especially don't like streams that center on VTT play, it's so boring

Not 100% what you are looking for but I would check out this module: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/393396/Battle-for-Carrion-Vale https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=8117

But all six people I know who play dnd love [outdatedmechanic].

The book is a very open sandbox adventure with flavorful lore. One thing I didn't like about it is a theme of sexual assault between members of some of the factions; in fact this cover, seemingly depicting a efreet and a nereid slave, is implicitly a SA scene. It's all introduced very casually...

I said minimalist. Though having said that, I did find lasers and feelings to be a bit thin. Eventually you’re going to come across a situation that is neither a laser nor a feeling!

come up with a rumor table for the wizard. Then roll to see which one is true!

yikes

My apologies, I'm sorry that it came across that way

The point of comparison is this: knowledge over theory does not give you privileged access into or over the lived experiences of other people.