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It took watching one 30 minute episode of an actual play of Strforfed to really grok it, as I’ve only played DnD before this, but oh MAN am I glad I did. I think the framework this provides not only for gameplay but also the setting building tools that excite me the most, period. It also can’t...

I think what got me the most was when I asked him how he'd feel if, in LotR Aragorn had done the feat he was describing, and he said "that'd be f'in rad, wouldn't it?" We didn't play together very long because there was just a lot of disconnect on what the game functionally was supposed to be...

I once had a player ask if his minotaur with a "6 foot wingspan" could reach down into the ground and throw a giant hunk of earth and rock at something at range. Expectations can vary wildly, for sure.

So glad my wife and I came to Japan before COVID. Still pretty much 100% mask use for anything that's not, like, "walking alone outside" with rare exceptions for particularly ornery old dudes. There was never the whole "this is a gross invasion of my personal freedoms" bent and so people have...

Secret plans create mismatched expectations

Gimme that A5E style "each race has 2 gifts, if you're bi-racial pick one from each parent" getup in 2024 please. My players saw that option and almost everyone in the party wanted to work with it.

Stasis is death and 'canon' is a lie. I can like Fizban's, dislike Strixhaven, like Eberron and dislike Dark Sun very easily without getting in a twist about it, just take what you like and move on.

Like others here, I'm very much in the "don't want to touch this in the current form because just thinking of wrangling with Strain both as a player and as a DM gives me conniptions" camp. Add on top the "it's totally not magic guys -wink wink-" vibe where they have to, multiple times, clarify...

This is what Dark Matter (mentioned by several posters in this thread) essentially is in my eyes. You could take the rules in that, run the Starfinder fluff if you wanted it, maybe brew some of the SF classes into either classes of their own or Subclasses that hit the flavor right if you're...

My wife and I are mid gob campaign right now in a one-on-one game! The PC is a "chill" gob who lives with other chill gobs and is tasked with going out into other warrens and trying to find other goblins that are, inexplicably, not inclined toward violence. Lots of mystery on what's causing...

The crunch was bad for us, but I'm glad you've been able to enjoy it and are looking forward to the new releases!

I may grab a lot of Starfinder books and run the ideas in 5E by combining them with details in Mage Hand Press’ Dark Matter setting/options book. I really like Starfinder as a setting/vibe but really didn’t like the crunch when I tried running it multiple times in the past. Just doing Drift...

Definitely not going to make it into the new book.

I love the way A5E handles race, background and culture. I like a lot of the magic items. The monster book has been the core of my combat experience in my current campaign and the journey rules are pretty fantastic. I have 100% without a doubt seen the exact same thing regarding players just...

The number of people I've seen praise A5E that has orcs driven by passion, celestial tieflings, halflings with claws and a burrowing speed, and so many more things (it's a really creative take on a lot of fantasy races, highly recommend even if you don't want all that crunch) and simultaneously...

I'm doing something similar in my current game, used A5E character creation for an O5E game. Hacking all of the pieces into DnDBeyond for my players using custom races, backgrounds, and some feats was definitely a pain, but they love what they got from the process!

To give people a new take on the lineage as they become an increasingly popular PC choice, kind of like the orcish cultural rewrite in A5E, a game I know I've seen you espouse the positives of here on the boards. Sometimes it's ok to change things if the new way of looking at something makes it...

But like, that's what they are in a lot of the stories that goblins are based on. I do think that "everything is fae now" has maybe gone a little far recently, but the gobbo change doesn't bother me one bit, personally.

I allow it all, with the caveat that if a player wants one of the Cleric subclasses, we've gotta workshop some balance adjustments. I like Peace and Twilight domains conceptually, so I'm more than willing to work to fit them in, but I do think they're a little over the top. Regarding lineages...

For me, the platonic ideal would be to say "there's no plot to ruin, go ham," but that kind of necessitates never using modules. I think every action should have a consequence, and if someone is in the middle of Waterdeep and decides to start decapitating people, they need to be ready to roll...