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I think one reason you create a nightmare world is that whatever changes you make to the timeline, in that new timeline, your characters need a reason to go back in time and change the timeline in order to avoid duplicating yourselves when you return to the present. In Timeless for instance...

I would say that changes in the timeline do not propagate backwards in time to catch up with the time travellers, so they would know what changes the wrought and what mistakes they made. This is sort of what happens in the show Timeless. If someone goes back in time for a specific reason, such...

One rule is if the time traveler went back in time and saved John F. Kennedy, he would not have a reason for going back in time in the first place, so lets say he stops Lee Harvey Oswald, he still needs a reason to be there, why did he make the trip in the first place in Kennedy was never...

How do the PCs travel in time? I'll admit, that its easier to handle time travel, when the agency for time travel is not in the hands of the PCs, but still how do they meet a chronomancer that is traveling through time? the Chronomancer has to visit them, the PCs can't look for them if they...

Time travel is both a way to visit places and to solve problems. Time Travel should be more a means for getting player characters to the location of an encounter rather than a means to solve the encounter, such as going back in time, creating time loops to multiply your selves. One could also go...

Yes, a lot of Germans learned to do that during the days of the Third Reich, especially when they did not agree with the Fuhrer, they kept their opinions about him and what he was doing to themselves, if they wanted to go on breathing. I have not developed that reflex, especially since I did not...

I think chances are fairly good that Hitler's evil would not be carried too many generations past his natural lifetime, you might at some point get a Fuhrer that is not interested in starting a war or killing people, but merely in preserving his power, or perhaps maintaining the Reich as it is...

I made some corrections to my version of the ANNIC NOVA converted to a time ship. The scenario I'm considering is that this timeship appears several hundred meters away from the International Space Station today, more or less in the present. This appearance has some political ramifications, and...

We have gone far afield from discussing playing the opposite gender. There is really not much to discuss here that is on topic. I've outlined an in game mechanism for changing a character's gender, called True Polymorph, solves the problem quite neatly in fact, but I guess people don't want...

The people obeying Hitler's orders and fighting his war for him, weren't doing Germany any favors. Germany would be better off if there was no Hitler. Germany lost land because of that war, and the Soviet Union and now Russia are bigger, at the expense of the rest of Europe, because of that war...

Here is the ANNIC NOVA Timeship with floor plans, based on a compromise between the ones in Highguard and from the original adventure: The room numbers are keyed to the original adventure descriptions, though obviously some changes were made with the substitution of the time drive that replace...

Could not a True Polymorph spell do that? Here is a description: https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/True%20Polymorph?fromList=True Polymorph&Name=#content True Polymorph Choose one creature with at least 1 hit point or nonmagical object that you can see within range. You transform the...

I don't really think there is much to say about cross gender play. In a world which the DM is trying to portray, it is necessary to have both male and female characters, and that often means the DM ends up portraying female characters, when I'm a DM I often do it third person, as I feel more...

Whether his character is a man or a woman, it slays the monsters just the same. The D&D rules make no distinction between the sexes on their combat statistics, so a female fighter of the same level and combat abilities can slay a dragon just as easily as a male character could of the same race...

Generally I play D&D to get away from real world politics, not delve into it. It is easier to suspend my disbelieve when dealing with imaginary characters. I don't expect players to put on wizard robes or to wear armor at the gaming table, I prefer to use my imagination that to see things and...

I've played more than one character at a time, this allows for larger player groups, this is helpful when playing a game with one or two players, not enough to make a balanced party if there are only two player characters each played by one person. If one person is playing multiple characters...

So you need two DM's one to play all the female characters who is female, and another to play all the male characters who is male. Has anyone ever played in a game where there was two DM's?

of course Red Sonja is portrayed, especially by the male artists drawing her, as a sword swinging gal in a bikini, it is slightly unrealistic than any sort of fighter would eschew the protection of armor just so she could show off her body. Joan of Arc was clad in full plate armor instead, that...

I think most D&D is PG-13, what is the suggested playing age for D&D players? I believe it is 13 years and older. D&D involves lots of combat, that is why it would be at least PG-13. I don't know of any role playing games for a 7 year old, but I imagine it wouldn't involve killing things and...

Can you really imagine a sane GM doing that with his friends at a dinner table? Honestly! How would the players react to that? "Well we go 'bang bang' get married and have children!" I honestly don't know what to do with a with a "vamp NPC". I one time GMed a game where two players one who...