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Oh look. It's an opinion being stated like it's a clear fact! Who would've guessed? And you got it in on the first page or so of the thread too. Thank goodness, I'd have hated to wait. There's nothing wrong with disliking tieflings, but maybe take it down a notch tiger. Moving on... I've never...

My group doesn't meet often enough at the moment to make any extra expenditure on my part worth it at the moment. Now, I recently made a Roll20 account in an effort to see if meeting via a VTT will help us get around the scheduling issues. If we start meeting regularly online, If Roll20...

Wrote up something lengthy about this, decided to go back and go small. I'm looking forward to this as a fan of the show. There's a lot that gets hinted at in the show because of paths and tidbits the players never pursue, and now I get to read about the setting in greater depth. To those who...

So with regards to people taking issue with having to purchase content they "already own" I'd like to use a bit of an analogy, yeah... hold onto your butts... because analogies are always glorious. ;) Do you folks game? I don't mean tabletop gaming, that's a given, I mean video games. I do...

Not to dog-pile, but what you're talking about here is disruptive players and has nothing to do with race or class choice. It's easy enough for me, just as an example, to sit down at your table with a character sheet that says I'm playing a lawful good human fighter with the noble background...

Racial minimums and maximums would be pointless to me, I have no need of them. Gender maximums or minimums would detract from the game, I'd like to think we're beyond the point where we need to draw line in the sand based on gender. So thanks, but no thanks.

I feel like these threads come up regularly, so I'll try and stay concise. I'm generally an "everything goes" DM. All races, classes, UA material, 3rd party material (subject to my review), and even all alignments within the same party. If you have a strong character concept I'm going to support...

I did report it. And I also felt the need to be vocal about the absurdity of it. If I get admonished for it so be it.

This is ridiculous. If this isn't shut down and the OP issued a warning it's a black mark on the quality of moderation around here, which thus far in my short time on these boards has seemed well enough run if a bit more lenient than I'm used to.

I suppose I need to clarify a bit, and that's completely my fault because of how emphatically I made my original statement. There's definitely a give and take between me and the players and while I'd obviously prefer not to have to explain "this is how you make an attack" to someone who's been...

I'll keep it short: my players don't need to know the rules. I know the rules. I know what's in the books. I know what's on your character sheets. All of it. You just tell me what you want to do, I'll let you know how we resolve that together. I don't care if it's the 1st session or the 50th...

In short, no. To expand a little, there are already plenty of ways to break a grapple with opposed ability checks and forced movement. I'm typically all for creative solutions the players can dream up, but a grappled creature is not a held object, at least not in my eyes. That said, every...

I don't mind them, but oddly enough my actual preference for dogs over cats as pets has bled over into the game and I'd prefer a canine race over a feline one any day. Except tigers, tigers are horrifyingly amazing creatures and when I can just put a tiger-like skin on a feline race I can...

It sounds like your DM doesn't understand how initiative or surprise work, at least narratively if not also mechanically. The first example given in their message is telling of this, so I'll stick with that for now. If an NPC draws a weapon unexpectedly, let's say, to try and and attack a...

So I'm going to try and do this off the dome rather than spittin' written, I figure if I can recall something without having to go back and actually look at it that means it impacted me enough to want it. Starting with the Barbarian the Zealot comes to mind in an instant. I loved everything...

I think the stereotypical go-to mounts for dwarves tend to be boar, rams, or goats. Bears are another solid choice. Generally speaking if might be considered a tough and surly animal people are likely to see the connection. That said, if you want to really play up the subterranean nature of...

So this is probably a stupid question, how coincidental, but I'm curious why those of you who like to equate the raw intelligence score to IQ use that score to mark standard deviations and not the modifier? A character with an 8 Int when measured up against one with an 11 is mechanically...

True enough. There's certainly a lot of wiggle room for the DM and player to decide just what personality, motivations and goals the familiar might have, if any at all. It's something I would encourage people to have fun with, I mean that's hopefully the idea of why we all sit down to play in...

I voted yesterday but forgot to say anything, not that that necessarily matters. Anyway, I've got the book and I quite like it. I'd like to see more of the same. Not necessarily retooled older adventures, but more small, independent adventures that aren't part of some larger whole. I've...

So I generally agree with everything else you mentioned, except this. The Warlocks familiar in fact doesn't have it's own agenda. It can't twist it's orders to lead the Warlock astray... because it's not a free-willed creature. A Warlocks Imp, Psuedodragon, Sprite or Quasit isn't actually an...