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It's fascinating to me how often people point to the DMG's chase rules when it's painfully obvious that they've never used them, or even thought very much about how it might go down if they tried. What you're saying might work out just fine if you were playing with side initiative and both teams...

There are no rules in the DMG for turning a combat encounter into a chase, so the chase rules only work if they decide not to fight before they know whether or not the enemy is actually a serious threat to them. That's not remotely helpful.

Speaking of ways 5e is terrible at horror: Unless you have some fairly significant house rules about it, running is almost never a smart option in 5e. Most of the monsters have the same movement speed as players, and the turn-based nature of that movement means that if you start in melee and...

Horror is probably the only genre that has been hit harder than Sci-fi on the general public only seeing the aesthetics and thinking the aesthetic is the genre. If you look at horror as something invoking not just fear, but a particular type of fear, then D&D almost couldn't be worse at it. If...

"This is bad, but here's a whole entire essay on why I'm going to keep doing it" is pretty terrible, in my book. But hey, I'm not here to have an argument about how stupid a person has be before it's okay to call them stupid instead of saying "they did and continue to do a bunch of stupid...

Thack-zero. This is my hill, and I will die on it.

Meh. That's a whole lot of (metaphorical) ink spilled over the difference between transphobic actions and being a tranphobe as if that's a meaningful difference. It's not. It might be better for your optics if you're trying to change behavior by making one approach over another, but it's not...

There is no issue of consent here. 1) If she had a problem with it, she had every opportunity to say so, and never did. Instead, she only ever said to use "Jaquaysing" instead. 2) We use people's names without their consent all the time. You simply do not need anyone's consent to use their name...

I'm going to take the fact that you just ignored my specific example and switched it to a different one as the admission that I'm correct we both know it to be, just like you switching your assertion what is meant by "episodic" is. I'm going to follow it up with pointing out that you can pull...

First: That's literally what episodes mean. Episodic series definitionally can stand alone. Sequels are the kind where you really need to have what went before to make sense of things. Second: You miss a metric ton of the story if you only play parts of it. If your argument is that you can just...

Also, Dragonlance didn't start the "adventure path" style of linked sequential modules, either. GDQ beat it to the punch by several, years. Weirdly, no one ever seems to claim that GDQ "ruined everything."

1) If you know the modules came first, why did you claim that they're scripted retellings of the novels? That's literally only possible if the novels came first. 2) I never said they weren't railroads. In fact, I explicitly said they were MORE railroady than I like. 3) Posting lines to people...

Backwards. I'm not sure how this has managed to dig so deeply into the zeitgeist of the hobby, but it's utterly wrong. The reality is completely the other way around. The Dragonlance original trilogy is a novelization of the modules. Those characters were the pregens that was included standard...

If. I strongly suspect that that the overwhelming majority of adventures don't break that way. Lets be clear here: I'm sure there are a fair handful of people on these forums that have some adventure or another more than once for completely difference groups. But the percentage of books sold...

Literally no one is saying the Sharrans aren't guilty of assault, kidnapping, and murder. I know it's hard to understand, but it's possible to look at something and say "This group is bad, but this other group, which is less bad in this particular instance, are also pretty terrible." And no...

I rather strongly suspect that it isn't that your group needs/wants strong guidance and a plot to be pushed along. It's that they expect it and get lost and confused because they're waiting for something that isn't coming. They're probably all very used to being lead around by the nose in video...

It sure does, but that's how it works, and has for some time now.

Even without an alignment entry, you can still see it represented as Selune is good and right for doing all of the above by the original author and every other author along the way since, though. Even with all of it happening before Shar turned to evil (because she literally turned to evil as a...

Not sure why you went off on a tangent about the specific age of the little kids being abandoned in the woods, but yeah, probably around 10. Half elves don't start aging differently from humans until after puberty, and haven't for several editions at this point. Regardless, abandoning the kids...

You're right, but when the conversation turned to "why aren't the gods helping?", people kept listing her as if she's a god who could help in divine ways. She's not and she IS helping, within the bounds of her ability and personality. Selune's worship is also toxic. Extremely so. They think...