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IMO, you don't have agency unless you take action. You don't just get to know because of character build choices.

Oh no! the ceiling is also rotted! :-)

The seem to be going through a list of classic adventure/theme hits and making new adventures to evoke that old time goodness. Was there an Eberron adventure that stands out as a classic or is representative of a classic theme? I remember the Eberron setting and ran a campaign in it but I...

Why give up all the other improvements that have been added to the game since 2nd Ed, when you can just easily adjust the game to make it more lethal?

I came to a realization a few years back during one of the great HP/meat debates on the WOTC boards. HP is just pure abstraction. It's not the meat. There is meat, but its not what the HP represents. HP is just a mechanic to help the players know the risks and make judgement calls. But HP is...

Ogres that don't exist (or do exist)... How did I miss out on another quantum ogre discussion. They are my favorite!

Can we get that in pill form?

What if your world has 26 hour days?! :.-(

Yes, this certainly is true. There is nothing particularly in the books that tell you to play RAW is king, etc. But then why did so many players decide that it should be played this way? Why had opinions shifted? I don't know. I blame the internet and video games, but I have no evidence. All...

Its not that DM's were required to RAW only. It was the DM's power only ever existed because the players at the table (including DM) gifted that power to the DM for the sake of the game. When 4e came out, the prevailing consensus was for player entitlement via clear and reliable rules &...

I was making a reference to the quality of 'magic' of the item, and that +n items just don't do it for being magic. Sure, they are better than standard entry-level 'inferior boots' sold at all the d&d gift shops everywhere and so the players want them all the same, but magic needs to be really...

You mean when the Yith return?

5e will be remembered as the edition before the edition with the cranial implants.

You're just being ridiculous. There are no times zones! The world is one big flat map, and the sun comes up all at once, everywhere.

5 out of 5 rating for Curse of Strahd Players may need nudging to get them going.

Wow. I would never ever want to DM for players that were so focused on the mechanics, and correctness, and being ruled by the dice and were so bereft of compassion for another human being that they'd object to me momentarily aiding a player that is down on his luck to the point of not having fun.

A true magic item would just auto-hit. +3 is chump change.

I think variant rules were only 'modules' in the prelude to 5e before the playtesting even started. None of that ever really happened in the way many people may have been imagining, for example, as a separate books/sources with different combination of rules for different typical play styles...

I've never had a player complain about the number of encounters or class balancing of characters around encounters per day. It may be theoretically true that on the whole some classes don't work as well in comparison to others unless encounters per day are higher, but its really not an issue in...

In my last campaign, nealy two years long, all XP was milestone based (determined by the players themselves) and they still played as murder hobos!