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Agreed We tend to compare and judge things based on what we’ve seen and experienced, and extrapolate from there. Whether it’s realistic usually doesn’t matter. Dog-size ant? We know what an ant look like. We’ve seen how it moves. We know roughly how strong a dog is, and how fast it can move...

I agree with most of your post but here’s where I disagree: D&D is not a simulator that aims to accurately reflect reality but it IS a reality simulator. All rulesets are. It takes a position on a scale, its not a yes/no question. People usually don’t go for ‘reality’, they go for...

Indeed, I like to call that the « because dragons! fallacy ». Still, I’m willing to make concessions and stretch my voluntary suspension of disbelief to allow a gameplay that would otherwise be made impossible with rules more in line with my perception of reality. D&D has combat. D&D has...

Yet, going plaid make still makes more sense than going salamander

Oh right, wasn’t Red Dwarf a mining vessel doing exactly that?

Getting all your science facts straight when doing sci-fi is hard. I’m ok to assume a good part of fiction in my science-fiction, but I prefer when the science part is hand-waved rather than explained. Gas tends to have a low molecule-to-volume ratio and density at normal pressure. I’d have...

Exhausting? Yes. Baffling? No. People have an emotional attachment to their hobby. Well, fans do at any case. Nothing surprising about them resisting changes to what they loved.

Fans are conservative by default. That true in about all fandoms because it’s in a definition of a fan to love how something is now. When you introduce changes, it is only logical that fans will be the ones noticing these changes first and resist it because it changes their relationship to the...

Indeed, Some of the way-over-the-top clips of Indian action-fantasy cinema that I’ve seen would fit remarkably well under a 5e rule frame. Don’t know enough about Indian films to speak of IPs proper though

This is, as stated in the OP, as worded in 5e14 so the ‘Magic’ action does not exist yet. However, casting a spell (or a cantrip) was an action type. In that regard, the 5e24 nomenclature is clearer with the addition of the Magic action. Now I have half a mind to see what other instances of...

For me there isn’t much ambiguity and the RaW is clear; these two features shouldn’t stack. Either you use your action to cast a cantrip or you use the attack action, but war magic isn’t worded as “if at some point during your turn you cast a cantrip…” That said; it’s neither OP nor out of...

As a player, I’m inclined to enjoy anything as long as the gamemaster is visibly enthusiastic about the genre and setting (and at least minimally competent), but regardless of the genre, I dislike games where players are expected to play ‘evil’ or perform morally dubious acts. Even in vampire...

It’s much worse than that; goblins speak the same language across settings! They also have the same general outlook, the same behaviour, the basically the same culture. In short, they have the same entry in the Monster Manual. The traditional fundamentalist approach of fantasy races is being...

My first DM was one of my friend’s older brother’s group of friends with whom we played a LARP or two (yes, I LARPed before tabletop RPG. It was sold to us “kinda like a LARP but without the live-action part”). We played at the community center two evenings per month, I think. 2e AD&D was fresh...

For me the reason is simple; players have too many resources - mostly too many hp and too many spell slots. Either the DM has to force a constant break-neck pace to prevent PCs from refreshing their resources too often, or they must face super-deadly encounters that take hours of game-time to...

The One Ring was one of my most formative read when it comes to game design. It is made to work best with a narrow focus in mind, but many games are based on a narrow focus, try to expand, and get lost. This one managed to keep it together. The One Ring is also an excellent example of a game...

There is a sun, but the planet is tidally locked to its sun and the campaign’s world is on the perpetually dark side. The moon, which orbits the planet, reflects that sun’s light normally. There is a sun but it does not radiate light. It radiates something else. The surface of the moon is...

You're probably right about that. Yet, I feel that censoring words is not always the solution to fight a real problem. Oftentimes I wonder if it doesn't turn out to be more hurtful in the end; a form of radicalization of sorts. The issues behind "orcs", "phylactery" and "oriental" are all very...

In a way, I’m glad they didn’t choose something else and didn’t give-in to a group of people recuperating a word that has no pejorative meaning to start with. I mean, where I come from, « Virginie Orientale » is what we call the state of Virginia in the US when we need to specifically...

First, I would select a setting and a meta-region within that setting. Probably the Sword Coast in Forgotten Realms because BG3 and Honor Among Thieves and Drizzt. Also, we’re kind of there already. Make it a solid gazetteer book mixing geography, demography, cultures, and and plot hooks. No...