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That's not player curation, player curation (or at least what I meant by it) was choosing carefully who you game with. You're talking about player conditioning which I approve of and wish I could do myself, but I'm afraid to. Generally my players have NOT reacted well. Several hissy fits have...

I don't know about ninjayeti, but that addresses all of my concerns. Initially I thought the "three round combat rule" meant FIGHTS MUST END AFTER THREE ROUNDS which would have been an unspeakably crappy game mechanic (except perhaps in a very niche game designed around a very niche concept that...

pemerton thanks! Cool. I've never had the pleasure of actually playing Burning Wheel but I've heard exclusively good things about it from all corners. I don't think Luke Crane has any enemies--certainly no out ones, considering he's the head of Games at Kickstarter--but I learned a few years...

Even if it's not a commercial game? (I'm not asking for my sake specifically, just to have the answer on record for everyone's future reference.)

Morrus I also subscribed as a Silver Supporter on March 25th according to PayPal. I am worried I am going insane because I can't seem to find the donate/subscription/support button/page/whatever anymore. I am positive I donated so it feels vaguely like the website is gaslighting me. I know...

Nope, it wasn't Luke Crane. I only met him once ever, at GenCon, and technically speaking, it was after GenCon when we were both shipping stuff home. The conversation didn't reach beyond polite chit-chat. Now Ron Edwards on the other hand I talked to on the phone for several hours as well as met...

First off, it's funny that I voted for by far the least popular option in my own poll. I do shoehorn a dragon into every session I can. Even if it's just, as mentioned above, seen passing overhead from a great distance. This is an interesting response because it has a kind of absoluteness to...

Oh, thanks everybody for the info! At first for some reason I thought the only response I got was Volund's so the entirety of my initial response was: Weird! I have actually run I2...in SPLINTER of all things as part of the playtest for Sometimes Little Wondrous Things, Ugly Things, and the...

she's got huge.... ... ... tracts of land!

I assume the argument is of the "should we have prepared text at all" type and not of the "should prepared text be in boxes" type. Anyway, I like to have boxed text around because it's only an option. You don't have to use it and you are free to modify it however you like. As a GM I am always...

as opposed to all the Barbarians that are built for courtly etiquette and political intrigues!?

While Hussar furnishes a much more concrete answer...I don't know...I'm not sure why it is and it was before my time but I've seen that B/X speaks to people in a profound way (I think it was Ron Edwards who told me it was 'the best' edition of D&D in his opinion, but I can't be sure on the...

nerdly point of order: isn't Genghis Khan a historical figure, not a mythological figure? I mean, dude definitely existed.

I feel like degrading equipment sort of goes against the grain of 5E's design philosophy in general, which has been to create a game with no drawbacks for characters, only advantages. This is most immediately relevant in races, all of which conspicuously lost their ability score penalties but is...

Hey, thank you everyone, this is great stuff. And yes, I was about to point out as Shiroiken did that from my previous research, Dragotha was definitely a dragon that Gygax named (making it one hell of a callback if he made no appearances between White Plume Mountain and Age of Worms). I have...

This.

well just so I can get my kicks in at this dead horse real quick: holy :):):):) true strike is terrrible in RAW I mean it was pretty bad in past editions too but what the HELL. My fix for it if I were to bother would just be having it be a bonus action, which is the simplest way to make it worth...

In my experience, it's not that huge of a gap at all, because I have never had the good fortune to run a 10+ year campaign (I expect like most of us) and (again, I expect like most of us) my campaigns tend to last between 12 and 24 game sessions max. Of course, at a certain point three or four...

Huh! I never use young dragons as generic fodder because my assumptions are the exact opposite of yours. See, my default headcanon for dragons came from Shadowrun which I was exposed to before D&D, so all of my assumptions are the exact opposite of what you just said. I see adult and older...

Well I don't think it was actually a thing until that last, most recent .5 of a decade. IIRC Dispel Magic has been around forever but Counterspell as a spell is new to 5E.