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I agree, at least insofar as the the game foundations can support a lot of tools -- that mostly #PPs are making because WotC won't. My issue with 5E is mostly that I am tired of it. It isn't, itself, a bad version of D&D. It is just time for a new version.

I think that is just philosophizing about religion by way of gaming without actually interrogating what makes people religious and what religiosity even means. So gods are real and you have to appease them and if you don't bad stuff happens. Okay. This is human reality for thousands of years...

I am a big proponent of prepping situations rather than stories. If you focus on the situation as it is, the entities that have an interest in it and their motivations, and the locations associated with it, it is much easier to respond the the inevitability left turns your players are going to...

My "favorite" thing about DiA is that the "flowcharts" are straight up linear poles. Lol. I and my group had a lot of fun with that adventure, but that is because we just went way over the top. We played it linear, but every scene was a even more ridiculous set piece than the last. I even...

If you actually use the adventures, then the price is fine. If it is just a flip through and then on the shelf, it is probably too much (depending on your disposable income). But generally speaking, gamers have always been cheap, continue to be cheap, and will always be cheap. I suggest most...

The problem with this question is tat it ignores how much magical thinking humans have always had and still do have. In the West, we tend to think of superstition and magical thinking as "backwards" but we still read our horoscopes and jiggle our crystals and cross ourselves when we enter a...

I think this is our fundamental disagreement.

And then they latch onto one improvised side comment. Three hours later,one of them is married to a rug.

Is WoW medieval fantasy? I don't think so.

I mean, maybe, but very, very few games (TTRPG or CRPG) make any real effort toward anything more than a medieval veneer.

That's weird, I don't have any modern tech that let's me read minds. But modern tech is WAY better at mass transit and communication. I don't think D&D magic aims to replicate modern technology at. I actually think it is kind of aimless outside of "how do we use this in a fight?" to be honest...

To be clear, "I read it and didn't like it" is fine. "I read it and it is a bad adventure" usually isn't. Waterdeep Dragonheist reads like garbage but turns out to be a great adventure creation toolkit.

So, explain. What obvious thing from reading DiA was born out in play?

Again, I think the period from the early/mid 80s to the early 90s, D&D WAS medieval fantasy -- at least insofar as one might categorize it by its aesthetic and the kinds of lore and stories it was trying to tell. But before that it was decidedly S&S and Weird, and Ultimately broke to be its own...

That's fair. I have only played the game a half dozen times in 40 years of gaming. Every time has been pretty banal with mundane knightly concerns overshadowing any (usually fae) magical elements. Every time by different GMs, mind, so that's why I came away with that assessment. I have never...

Things that seem "obvious" in reading ate often wrong when put to the table.

I am not sure I would go back to running it, but I will say this: 3.5 was much more of an intentional toolkit than 5E, and it knew how to support the GM with publications.

Personal Pet Peeve: people "rating" an adventure (good or bad) that they have only read.

Now I feel like you are being a touch disingenuous.

That's allod of land! /i'll see myself out