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A player mentioned they want to get a Prestige Class in the future in a Level Up campaign I want to start, and I was a bit surprised. I actually didn't know that A5E had Prestige Classes! Anyway, a quick delve into the Zeitgeist book and I see that there is an interesting selection of PrCs. So...

To add on to this, we have quotes from EGG himself in these very forums (and Dragonsfoot) where his solution to the baby orc problem is "Raise them as good and then immediately kill them so they get sent to the Good Afterlife". We have to admit that race essentialism is not that foreign to D&D's...

Forgive me Father, for I have commented on another thread...

Dude, I know you always post cryptic, downright incomprehensible threads most of the time, but... What? What on earth could you possibly mean by comparing AD&D to literal holy scriptures?

My vetting process depends on how I'm recruiting the player: 1- If it's from my friend circle, I try to infer from conversation if they'd be a good fit for my play style. If I'm looking to recruit a player for an ongoing campaign, I might first have them join as a guest with a simpler...

I'd personally take some creative freedoms and pronounce it as asinine.

My friend, the permission you dream of is essentially destroying all social contract, all nuance, all friendly communication in favour of robotic legal arrangements. That's not healthy, nor is it wise. Sometimes, you don't like a game and that's it. Nobody commits a felony against you when that...

Again, I feel like the problem here is far more than just the loss of player agency. The example you give is so hyperbolic that I'd like to hope that it doesn't come up in the majority of tables. What kind of games are you playing that the first idea that comes to mind when a PC gets dominated...

Yes, but that kind of limit is - as you say so as well - down to preference. Some people want character death to only happen when it is meaningful and that's a valid choice (it's what I agree with in 5e most of the time as well). But the point is that it's a matter of preference, not morality...

Eh, I don't like the moralising (and legalising) tone that you're taking over what is supposed to be what happens to your imaginary character in your imaginary pretend game of elves*. Sometimes, things you don't like happen to your character, either while you're at the table or when you're away...

Where do we draw the line at disrespecting the inworld character of a player though? Is a character dying in a random encounter also disrespectful because it does not give the player an end that that they had agreed to? Is challenging a PC's personality traits also disrespecting the player since...

You're missing the point by focusing on the noncommercial part. The important part is non-public. We're talking about home games that people play with their friends.

There is also the fact that TTRPG is an international hobby. I'm currently living in Switzerland. Sure, theoretically American copyright law may allow WotC to sue me for infringing on their copyright by, I don't know, running an extremely erotic Greyhawk game using FATE rules. But does Swiss law...

People get those letters when they publish copyright-infringing work, yes. But who the hell is going to stop me from establishing rules for element bending for my 5e game that only people in my home D&D game can see? How could Viacom even know that their copyright is being infringed? I am...

Every day, these forums remind me that common sense is not as common as I think it is.

So are D&D 5e home games that use IPs that aren't officially adapted to the 5e ruleset (Star Wars, Avatar: the Last Airbender, Marvel Comics, etc.) illegal?! I mean, you realise how ridiculous that sounds, right? I can tell you why they're saying this: Copyright protects commercial use and no...

Absolute poppycock. I can place and use whichever copyrighted character I want in my non-commercial home game, and Disney can do nothing about it. We're talking about campaigns and DMing here, of course commercial products are different. But for home games, nothing can legally and morally stop...

@Yaarel furthermore, I gave the example of Mordenkainen for a specific reason: He has a current canon status in official D&D (like I said, mad and amnesiac in a certain D&D adventure). If I gloss over that canon plot point entirely and say he has never had such an affliction and never will, am I...