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Frankly, the way D&D has almost always handled polytheism is so offensive and gross to me, I'll take practically anything that replaces it as the "default priest" in a D&D world, whether the classic Cleric is excluded entirely or simply made into the weird off-shoot.

You know, my battered copies of The Complete Book of Humanoids and The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook and The Planewalker's Handbook would like to have a word with all the people saying that "real D&D" wasn't just as much of an endless parade of circus freaks as the WotC editions. Frankly...

Dragons are part of the Celestial Bureaucracy, chromatic and metallic alike; their cosmological function is to beefgate insane, reckless, and/or unworthy mortals-- like every elf, ever-- from Immortality. The metallics focus more on fostering worthy candidates, and eating their failures, while...

Practically everything I run has multiple worlds, kung fu, or magic in it... the majority of my settings/campaigns have all three. I like laser guns and six-shooters best, but I'll frequently include either modern firearms or early firearms instead. The Elven Imperial Navy, the Thri-Kreen...

I can start using Coyote from now on-- do you want me to reroll my previous roll?

It's a shame they were so afraid of the "WotC is turning D&D into MtG" outcry that they didn't start doing this until this edition.

As much as I love Jollibee, you know that pineapple is also one of my favorite burger toppings.

Fantasy Grounds has default "accessibility" settings that are intolerable to me, and puts visual theme solely in the hands of the GM for aesthetic reasons that shouldn't be more important than player usability... but here we are. Largest and fastest refund I've ever requested or received for a...

OOC: Wisdom check 16.

It's not a matter of fixing everything in place, it's a matter of committing to what has been fixed in place. If there's a fork in the road, and the players can choose to walk down either path, the consequences for walking down those paths need to be different. edit: I mean, hell, with the...

I'm planning a weekly campaign that's about a two-hour drive each way. We might take turns hosting, which will make things easier for us, the people two hours away... and maybe the people an hour away in a different direction, if we can get them.

The difference is, if I've put the ogre on the left side of the fork in advance, I've also put ways for the PCs to find out there's an ogre there, or at least there are ogres in the area. If there's a choice the players have to make, that choice is meaningful. Otherwise, it's the illusion of choice.

They're just being faithful to continuity. Forget this episode being the reason that M'Benga isn't the Chief Medical Officer under Kirk-- this episode is the reason that the ship's therapist is a bridge officer position a hundred years from now.

That's exactly what I'm aiming for. We work together before the game to establish why the characters are adventurers and why they're adventuring together, and I present them-- diegetically, organically-- a list of opportunities for them to explore, and they can go explore them or make their own...

Thing is... as much as this episode interrogated that trope, I think it rejected and rebuked it as fiercely as anything else Star Trek has ever done. M'Benga killed three Klingon officers with a knife. They were enemy combatants and war criminals in a declared war zone, his actions saved...

This isn't illusionism. When the player decides their character uses a glaive and the umpire doesn't "sure check" them, they're both deciding that glaive-wielders and magical glaives are going to be a little more common in the campaign world. If I put a magical glaive in the hands of a minor...

Three or four parts plain tomato sauce to one part banana ketchup and one part sweetened condensed milk. Salt and heat to taste. Serve over thoroughly cooked spaghetti noodles and top with sliced browned hot dogs and shredded jack cheese. Changed my life, man.

As a matter of fact, I do see it as very similar to fudging the dice: it's a very simple and convenient tool for keeping the game going in the direction you want it to go, until your players notice it. And another way it's a lot like fudging the dice is, once your players have caught you doing...

You only harbor this ridiculous bias against ketchup because you've never had it made out of bananas. Banana ketchup is the ultimate condiment that can be used in or on anything that normally calls for any tomato-based sauce.

"I am having my share of enemies, yes, but none who are going to this much of trouble to be taking me alive. Prisoners, yes, maybe we are. Prisoners or guests, our hosts are wanting something from us, and wanting it badly to have us summoned. If they are pretending to offering us a choice, we...