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Okay, this is the best explanation I've seen on how the hope/fear duality play out to change the 'narrative' of the story being told. I like this example alot. Is there a Sci-fantasy frame in the core rulebook? I've been wanting to run a game that mixes Cyberpunk, Star Wars, Mass Effect and...

Friction from restraints isn’t necessarily a detriment to the creative process and can in fact lead to better results.

I think that D&D is created with the purpose in mind to be a fantasy story generator and that the combination of lore and rules refinement over the last 50 years has made it very good at doing exactly that. It's designed to enhance the storytelling abilities of those playing it. The better...

Not saying that D&D makes a game or a show good, I said that when talented people use it, the outcomes are better than when they don't. So Solasta would have been worse if it had used it's own system. I've watched and listened to quite a few, though the vast majority were from groups who's...

Exactly! Also, agree that Monsterheart was fantastic content. Probably the best non D&D one shot they've done (Tailsen's Cthulu adventure may be a close 2nd). And, while I didn't purchase it, I'd definitely be down to play Monsterheart. Once. And same with watching someone play it, once...

Maybe, but isn't it also possible that D&D enhances the abilities of storytellers in a way that results in a better end product than when they use other TTRPG systems? Again, going back to BG3, we know that the vast majority of players hadn't played or engaged with D&D beforehand. It wasn't...

Exactly! And even though that's not what it's made for, it's incredibly good at doing it. That, to me, is the weird bit of magic in what Gygax created. He made a small force mission simulator for wargaming, and yet the way it was put together turned into a story generator that has captivated...

I didn't mean collaborative in the sense of the definition of that style in TTRPG Design, I meant it in the generic use of the word. That D&D is a story told by a group of people together where the outcome isn't known ahead of time due to the conflict resolution mechanics. The players want...

I take this one step further. So far, the NAVAs have created their best material when playing D&D, and that is why the combination is so popular. It's what D&D helps create that's key (the same argument could be applied to why BG3 is so much more popular than Larian's other games). If the...

Reading thru the SRD just saved me $60. I think there is potential here for sure, but I'm gonna wait at least a year to see how well the system holds up over a long campaign and how well it works with groups who's players have wildly different levels of creativity. I'm also not sold on the...

I'm on the fence about picking this up. I'm a huge CR fan, but don't spend much money on the brand (a couple of t-shirts and a mug over 7 years), and do have the two Exandria campaign source books, which are excellent work (EGtW is perhaps my favorite campaign setting book of all time) and have...

In the summer of '89, my friends and I started with D&D, and by the end of the summer had also tried Robotech, TMNT, RIFTS, and some superhero game that I can't remember the name of. Played D&D, Robotech and TMNT pretty regularly for about three years.

Can't wait to see the Starter Set! Also got to say that Beyond the Crystal Cave came at the perfect time in this anthology. We had two players pretty new to TTRPGs join our group mid When a Star Falls, and they were doing great, but it was the Eternal Garden that really opened up their...

Apologies for the thread necro, but... Hit me in our session on Friday that it's been almost a year since our group started playing QFtIS ( there has been player turnover and long breaks) and we just started Pharaoh. Been using the Nafas hook (which made it easy to replace 4 PCs who left along...

I think this is spot on. I just returned to college as a student after 30 years (changing careers as I could no longer find work in the movie biz post the last strike) and am finding AI to be an invaluable tool. Not to do the work, but to help me learn. For example, in my Statistics class...

Right. The Pitt is a traditional TV production, the type that used to be good for 23 episodes a year, where most streaming TV 'shows' these days are just long feature films broken into 7 or 8 parts and like a film take 2-3 years to produce. I'd guess that with the success of the Pitt we may...

Hope we have a bit of wiggle room on forum rules here but if I'm breaking any am happy to back off. This is a difficult subject to discuss without touching on some subjects. So yeah, at the same time that the 19th century increased inequalities, it also led to the biggest lifting of all boats...

That's the real question! As technology is able to produce more and more, how do we, as a society, ensure that the basic necessities of life (food, clothing, shelter, safety, health care, education) are guaranteed to all. I think that is the most important question to be answered in the next...

I think a better use of our time would be to fight for UBI than to fight against technology replacing jobs.

A lot of good food for thought. I would say that this forum's very existence is predicated on number 6. D&D wouldn't exist if it hadn't relied on the copyrighted material that informs it's core :) Again, I'm not just trying to be a devils advocate, troll, or ignorant here. I'm looking to...