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Whenever I try and run a naval battle, players are always asking about cannons. Doesn't matter how firmly medieval the setting is, or that there's been nary a hint of a mention of gunpowder anywhere else - ships are expected to have cannons. I don't think I need to worry about any one spotting...

Irrelevant aside: Some time ago I opted to cap falling damage at 150d6. This was based on a back of the envelope caculation of how far you need to fall to reach terminal velocity rounded to an easy to remember number. It has the benefit that it will almost always kill a character who falls a...

Nope. You all walked up to the gatehouse. People cautiously scoped it out. I was pausing to give you an opportunity to react before peremptorily marching you through it.

If they're looking for opportunites to expand into more high profile clubs, the badges of Premiership teams are filled with denizens of the Monster Manual. There are devils, dire wolves, and rocs. Chelsea's badge purports to show a lion, but from the fact that it's breathing fire we can...

There were two mentions of GURPS.

I will describe the keep interior shortly, @theCourier . I just wanted the give the rest opportunity to react first.

Looking at the walls of the gatehouse, Yolo can make out little peekholes about 10 ft up, but nothing that could be used as an entrance. The funnels from the mouths of the frog statues look like they may have been used as murderholes, though it's hard to see where they lead, vanishing into...

The only place I've seen Scottish dwarves is Critical Role, I think. I like my dwarves with a northern English accent (that's how they're always portrayed in Warhammer computer games). It matters little as I'm very bad at mimicking accents, so whatever I'm trying to do is rarely recognisable.

You cautiously approach the gatehouse, with no sign that anyone is following from behind. From up close the gatehouse is an imposing looking thing. The stone is partly eaten away and coated in moss and lichen, but you can still make out the shapes of what look like monstrous toads carved into...

I don't have a set of quantified rules on this - it just influences how I portray NPCs. If Bill the farmer doesn't trust wood elves (no farmers trust wood elves), he would require additional convincing to believe something from a wood elf than he would from a human, for example. More interesting...

I've produced a convenient fantasy racism chart for my next campaign; showing the different grades of fear and mistrust characters of different races (and human ethnicities) should expect from the general populace.

I find it simpler to just say no to gnomes.

If WotC published a Krypton sourcebook, there is a 100% certainty that someone would ask to play a Kryptonian in your traditional, medieval fantasy game.

Nudge nudge. What's the plan ladies and gentlemen? Everyone heading into the keep, or not?

Just a personal thing, but I refuse to use Zoom for gaming. So much of my working life is didn't sat in Zoom calls. It would feel like putting on a tie and going to the office to play DnD.

I really enjoyed that book. It had quite a different feel to it than his Riftwar stuff. That was more than 20 years ago, though. No idea if the older and wiser fatter me would find it quite so compelling.

So, metagaming has never really come up as an issue in games I've played or run. Reading this thread, though, I can understand but why the Angry GM got so angry about the topic. I can't really imagine playing a game where players are required to justify whether their character would have come...

People always say Intelligence is the least important ability score in 5e. What they clearly overlooked was it's important role as defence against the kind of GM who would ask "would your character know to do that?"

Cistern is not medieval terminology. What do you call the cistern on your toilet? People do use obscure words intentionally to create an archaic feel, or just because they think it sounds good. But that doesn't mean that's what's happening every time you learn a new word. 'Cistern' is a normal...

The problem with language, it's that it's often not at all clear which words are and aren't obscure. I would have thought that marzipan is a word any child would know, for example. And it's called the same thing in most European languages, so it would never have crossed my mind that it would...