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I haven't played an escape room yet but I think my ideal D&D dungeon is basically a fantasy-themed escape room with some persistent character elements. I think modern D&D tends to overemphasize the persistent character elements and as a result attenuates the the search and think phases of the...

The old modules often play better than they read. Try running it. In fact try running it off the page with almost no prep (maybe an hour to read the introduction and skim the rest). Identify yourself as the game's referee, not the author of tonight's play experience (or even the emcee). Your job...

There's an analogy here with pornography vs. real sex...

I would say I prioritize gameplay over roleplay, but I'm not so focused on the mechanics. I like rules-light gameplay, i.e. the phase prior to mechanical resolution where the players are interpreting the situation and understanding the problem. My RPG anathema would be mechanics that obviate any...

Follow along Morrus: in Frog God Games' full statement regarding the incident (not the truncated version appearing in the article here), Matt Finch originally included a screenshot of a conversation an FGG partner had with the harassment victim BJ Hensley. Hensley asked that this image be...

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No, again there is a disagreement about what sort of harassment occurred, and especially about whether there was actually an altercation that injured a Paizo staff member. Brookes on Twitter says there was. Frog God Games conducts an internal investigation that includes a conversation with...

Well I think that reflects the asymmetry in how sex crimes are defined and prosecuted vs other violent crimes. Assault (in most jurisdictions) requires an intent to physically hurt someone; sexual assault does not. The severity of a sex crime seems to be graded according to how close it came to...

I said feeling pressured. Perhaps just by the thought of how embarrassing it would be for him if she were to come out now and say his account isn't accurate. I read that. She seems to be writing primarily to defend Paizo and their handling of the situation. It's interesting she doesn't thank...

Not an appropriate analogy for the current situation. Firstly because the victim here is not the one publicizing their harassment. She actually has stated that she considers the matter closed and would prefer if everyone stopped talking about it. So it's more like your neighbor on the left is...

So this? "Reducing the event to a level that will maintain confidentiality, my understanding based on my investigation was that Bill Webb took an action and engaged in speech that could be construed as a sexual advance or as gender-dismissive." That's better than what you had to work with...

I can't find a clear description of what happened either. Refusing to describe the sexual harassment in detail to protect the victim makes some sense, but I can't see why they're being so vague about what sort of injury the person who intervened suffered. It's interesting that Matt Finch of FGG...

I find it ironic that the author's primary criticism seems to be that Chult mashes various disparate African cultures together, but she also likes the asinine concept of "people of color". Talk about mashing disparate cultures together! I guess if they had had a Korean guy on the team they...

Your hooks should mostly be rumors rather than scenes. Remove the information from irrelevant attachments to particular NPCs/places/events. Then you can weave them into conversation as seems natural and appropriate with whatever NPC the party chooses to talk to.

Freddie Mercury's parties actually were like something out of a game of D&D... "Now Freddie could indulge himself like never before. Mountains of cocaine were shovelled up his aquiline nose. Further mountains were carried about on trays strapped to the heads of dwarves at parties that would...

Seems related to Crawford's goal to make D&D more queer It's definitely a carefully chosen word!

OP is a crystal clear example of virtue signalling: the concern explicitly is whether the portrayal of the Uthgardt conflicts with "modern sensibilities", not whether it's offensive or derogatory to Native Americans. The latter is actually a much easier but I guess less interesting question to...

Modern D&D adventures are generally about protecting your people from invading monsters, which is actually analogous to white nationalism NOT colonialism.

The point about virtue-signalling is the empathy is not for those who actually stand to be harmed by a situation, but for the other bystanders and what they think about it. The goal here is not to help Native Americans, but to show off the subtlety of your sensibilities to other white people...

Rent-seeking describes any situation where somebody is transferring wealth to themselves by manipulating the rules rather than creating new wealth. This is bad not only because it's unfair but because it discourages others from creating new things in that space. The purpose of trademark law is...