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:) Sounds like my usual game. I don't think I've ever had a dragon in a dungeon. Heck despite the game being called Dungeons and Dragons, I don't think I've ever used a dragon in D&D.

Its not bad for a game I guess and its kind of OK for the TV show . The thing that bothers me though is zombie films have been part of popular culture IRL or 50 years by the time the TV show, 80 for horror buffs . As for Werewolves and Vampires , we have lore from Ancient Rome! Its like...

Genuine horror is possible in roleplaying games under rare circumstances though getting to that requires players to be very deeply invested in the character and the game and in just the right head space. I've run crazy amounts of modern fantasy with horror trappings, more of this than anything...

If and only if you can get your players all on the same page when it comes to tone, it is possible to use D&D or any other system to emulate horror at least for a short while. Generally its not good at it but it is possible. Even games like Chill which is meant to be used for Hammer Horror or...

I owned a lot of games back in the day . Read every game I could get my hands on . Not that many games other than AD&D 1E got much play though we tried a few of the TSR games like Gangbusters as well as Runequest 2E and Traveller.

I've played a fair amount of CoC and its a good game and a good system. Its not especially horror in my experience, more trope exploration but YMMV,

Roleplaying games in general aren't that great for creating a sense of horror. D&D is no exception.

Thank for this!

I think this is more a GM assumption vs Player assumption problem than a cost of poison one. Toxic stuff IRL can be foraged after all. In many games the general game focus was supposed to be say exciting action scenes or what I like to call mutual assured stupidity, that is where everyone...

5E absolutely. The others not as well IMO anyway.

A lot of DM/GM's can't even handle much in the second and third tiers of D&D and so being able to buy gunpowder something that could be done IRL by the late middle ages is too much for them. Really if D&D didn't have a big player base and first mover advantage, a lot of people would be better...

PC's in one game of mine though some insane critical roles (they were high end arms merchants) got a hold of a suitcase nuke. Since they had been dimension traveling they ended up trading AK's and ammo for boosting it with a magical version of naquada from Stargate . Now back on Earth with a...

Spells can be a bit of trouble. When things get to be a nuisance what I do is get some 3x5 cards and write out what moves I expect the monster to use, usually 5 or so and just play the cards more or in order with some deviation if the critter needs to run away or adjust tactics. A card...

It wasn't really. In my read through many not Elves were essentially elves. However its a good game and the very generous creators have made it all free and legal to download here.

That's rather interesting . My "must have"is custom backgrounds are fine. Also Path of the Berserker Barbarians Frenzy is adjusted as follows. Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can chose to go into a frenzy when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you...

I'm not going to make up my mind on these rules till I see them in the book. In any case they are optional so if I don't like them I can, at least as DM always say no. That aside trying to turn 5e into PF2e or GURPS is fraught with risk. Its a different set of game assumptions for one and...

I voted yes but I don't think we need a lot more classes maybe just a Pathfinder style "Witch" class and some kind of more official No Magic Ranger Beyond that most thing one might want could be served by archetypes.

I would not do that myself. IME the usual result of lowering caster power without making it overall a much lower magic world is players call it quits even faster. And note this is sound behavior. If you are say a soldier with a rifle and only one magazine of ammo , as soon as you are out of...

It sounds to me like your players don't like lower magic levels and they selected the most magical classes they could because its what they like to play. No player buy in isn't a problem really unless you as GM lack buy in to what they like in which case one party needs a new game or a new...

Even real world societies (and plenty of these still exist) that eschew and fear witchcraft, do have a split between good magic and bad magic based on itent and use Brujo /Curendero Witch/Clever Folk and similar splits seem to be pretty common in many parts of the world. In OD&D terms this...