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In my most recent session about half of the monsters I used were homebrew. None of the party is of a homebrewed race, class, or subclass, but they do use homebrew magic items. I have a ton of homebrew player options that I've made over the years, but my players are satisfied with the official...

I'd argue the only monsters it "helps" with roleplay is Demons and Devils. Those are the only monsters that are so reliant on their alignments that it actually matters to how they act. For most other monsters, like Hags or Ogres, their motivations and personalities are more complex and alignment...

Oh, I considered the empire being multi-species as being a given. Empires tend to accumulate more ethnicities as they expand. Unless the empire wiped out the other species as it expanded, it would definitely end up having several different species inside it. My point was to give some thought as...

My main question is how? How did the empire get that big? The biggest contiguous land empire in history, the Mongol Empire, didn't even conquer a full continent. How on Earth did a single empire conquer all of the oceans on the planet? Especially given the fact that oceans are 3D. You can swim...

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I would prefer if WotC spent their time making more stuff for the D&D IP instead of trying to shoehorn other IP into D&D. Partially because it’s easier to adapt other IP into Magic the Gathering cards than it is to adapt them to D&D. There are very few IPs M:tG is incapable of adapting. There...

Chess is a relatively simple game. Most people agree on the rules of Chess and play it the same way. D&D is not a simple game and people have never agreed on how to play it. There are several official versions of D&D that are not compatible with each other. D&D regularly gets expansions to lore...

I think you should reread the OP, because that is clearly not what it’s talking about.

It’s been 50 years. Of course the game is going to change. Of course new players are going to have a different playstyle. To deny that and insist that everyone must play the old, correct way is gatekeeping.

I remember a while back in a thread I made a post, which I thought was obvious hyperbole, about how to appease the grognards that hate all types of change and updates in the new books, WotC should just reprint the old books with updated mechanics. No new art, no new options, no new lore, no new...

“The youths are playing the game wrong and driving the hobby off the cliff.” This is like the epitome of a terrible gatekeeping opinion.

I typically prefer the Eberron approach where there's a focus on faith and practice over the gods themselves. Having gods that objectively exist and can be contacted with relative ease makes religion much less interesting, IMO. In my setting, Sophian Ennoism is the most popular religion of the...

I have not watched Star Trek (yet), so I’m not that familiar with the Borg. And I gave a couple small mentions of the Cybermen towards the end, but they do probably deserve a section.

- Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien There is a common theme in a lot of stories where evil is "sterile," incapable of creating, only able to corrupt and destroy. This trope is especially common in fantasy media, probably partially because of Tolkien. But the idea that evil...

Do you think that most players value realism so much? Do you think that most players love linguistics and would enjoy modeling the D&D language system off of the Middle Ages?

And an article about an optional rule in a 3rd party game somehow demonstrates that the average player is a linguistics fan and always finds realistic simulationism super cool and fun? If I spent 10 minutes at my table stopping the game in the middle of DMing to explain how the Elvish term...