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My players get enough of this with Dark Sun. Still, playing as the sea people might be fun

Major exports and major imports can be important, but im not getting into the details unless it's a special circumstance, or necessary for the story. If trade caravans are getting raided, I want to know what they were carrying so the PCs can find a stash of it in their hideout, and so people can...

"War" posts are fun, because we all make different assumptions based on our own campaigns and preferences. This is my take, but I've seen some pretty good posts that go in a completely different direction, so cherry pick anything that you want, and mix and match till you find what you like. How...

And yet, I still don't have psionics.

For pure durability, a bear totem barbarian is the traditional go-to, but zealots being so easy to bring back from death, combined with some slight offensive boosts, makes them my absolute favorite. Single-class, they tend to get pretty boring, but splashing a few levels of fighter and a casting...

It's official. Cardiologists are real world adventurers. In all seriousness, in a game with monsters that derive all their sustenance from brains, floating eyes that nullify magic, and giant flying lizards that belch lethal energy, this is not something worth getting hung up on.

The same reason the ranger can suddenly sense dragons at level 3, or the barbarian gets better at crit hits at level 9. Because gaining new abilities is fun. Obviously, getting better at something makes you better at unrelated stuff. It's why all our cardiologists are so damn good at golf.

Short answer, anywhere a powerful NPC can detect that magic is being used to gain an advantage against their interests.

It probably wouldn't break the game if you allowed martials to get extra attacks based on total character level (just like casters cantrips get upgraded,) but it would be a big slap in the face to single class fighters.

Personally, I enjoy using multi-classing to build characters that aren't a carbon copy of every other vanilla toon that gets mentioned when chatting with other players. "Oh, you are playing a paladin too? Yeah, mine can't smite, but he gets to rage and use bardic inspiration." Flavor is free...

Elves. We need more elves. /s

As feat starved as most builds are, especially optimized builds, I think this would work at my table. A single spell not requiring concentration is unlikely to break the game, and for the cost of a feat... I like that balance. 5th level spell slots are just to easy to come by for a sorcerer...

All evidence to the contrary. Men who live violent lives and are used to using the sword (or gun) to solve problems seem to have little regard for the lives of anyone they see as "other." Is this less common in the world today? Maybe. Certainly, it is less accepted in polite society, but in the...

Well, actually... Crusader says what? Norsemen going a viking, Spanish explorers in the New World, sugar plantation owners, Wyatt Erp... Honestly, this just sounds like stuff that happened in Europe and the Americas over and over again. Probably, but its not your game, man. Just say you...

When I see a difference at the table, it is usually a combination of low stats AND low optimization by one player, exacerbated by high stats AND high optimization by a different player. The first player laments their low damage output while playing a gnome bard with stats ranging from 12-16...

My tables are mixed. I'm partial to point buy, with a little bonus +2 as a cherry on top. Half my friends prefer to roll. The other half like the array.

Oh no! A company sent guys to someone's house to retrieve some stuff that he shouldn't have had, and HE KNEW THAT. Excuse me while I clutch my pearls. Now, the association with Pinkerton is a bigger issue for me. It's an organization of thugs, with a long history of douchebaggery. Not enough...

If I'm paying for a setting, it needs to be packed full of detail. Now, I might very well scrap 50% of it to drop my own (or other published) material in, but that's a matter of personal preference.

I've got a buddy who does this really well. Wove Curse of Strahd, and Horder of the Dragon Queen together beautifully

So it's not just me. That's good to know. I still find value in published modules, but its usually just ripping out the main plot and structure. Everything else gets tossed right in the garbage can. Sometimes it's because my parties tend to be a little overpowered, or the encounters are a...