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I have never encountered a YT personality before whose voice and appearance were so mismatched that it made it hard to actually watch. Wow. Not a bad discussion, tho.

No, but because the campaigns were not all equally successful. For example, the caravan home base was when playing the Jade Regent PF1 AP which did not work for us. I don't think the failure was based on the HQ tho. I will say that of all the styles, I return to "small town where the PCs end up...

I think it is almost entirely dependent on the nature of the larger campaign. I have used everything from the sleepy hamlet to a trade caravan to the king's court as the base of operations.

But inherently neither. I have probably run as many campaigns where the PCs were the "hand of the king" as I have where they were scoundrels and rebels. Star Wars is more punk than D&D, by a wide margin. Interesting: what kind of *-punk is Star Wars?

Okay, so it is a hobbit, right? Except it is skinny and has pointy ears. No, not like an elf. More like an emaciated gnome. Anyway, it's a hobbit except instead of liking comfort, they are fearless. Not like brave, but like dumb as a stump so they aren't afraid of anything. No, not mentally...

You could build the "return to town" into the setting: maybe the sandbox is a continent, planet, dimension or epoch away and the "recall bracelets" allow you to travel there and summon you back after a period of time (aka the length of the session).

As a separate thing from sandboxes or theme parks. This is one of those threadss where I am literally just thinking on the keyborad, so I am excited to see what other folks think of the idea. In other words, we're just spitballing here. So you oftne here "open" play environments described as...

Sure, but as it relates specifically to D&D, levels of magic and (for lack of a better term) the superheroic abilities of protagonists does vary pretty widly. So one person's "conan-esque" is someone else's overpowered fantasy.

Since PCs are not done being created before level 3, I almost always start there.

It can be a classic adventure, a monster, a spell, a class, or anything else that is iconic of D&D. Otherwise you know how this works. ---------- I'm here to play the lute and [---] dragons, and I lost my lute.

Huh. I don't think it has ever occurred to me to use a published adventure for supers.

Read. Your. [redacted]. Character. Abilities.

Nor do I. I also did not suggest I did. It is just true. So are you playing OSE or OSRIC? If it was merely arrogance, it would not be true. But it is. Whether it is preferable or not, there must be some there there. I personally think it is inertia, but how would I know for sure?

I do play differ games. Lots of them. I like liking D&D. I don't like not liking the current version of D&D. D&D has a long tradition of changing more than most other games and that very likely has contributed to its longevity and dominance.

I agree, at least insofar as the the game foundations can support a lot of tools -- that mostly #PPs are making because WotC won't. My issue with 5E is mostly that I am tired of it. It isn't, itself, a bad version of D&D. It is just time for a new version.

I think that is just philosophizing about religion by way of gaming without actually interrogating what makes people religious and what religiosity even means. So gods are real and you have to appease them and if you don't bad stuff happens. Okay. This is human reality for thousands of years...

I am a big proponent of prepping situations rather than stories. If you focus on the situation as it is, the entities that have an interest in it and their motivations, and the locations associated with it, it is much easier to respond the the inevitability left turns your players are going to...

My "favorite" thing about DiA is that the "flowcharts" are straight up linear poles. Lol. I and my group had a lot of fun with that adventure, but that is because we just went way over the top. We played it linear, but every scene was a even more ridiculous set piece than the last. I even...

If you actually use the adventures, then the price is fine. If it is just a flip through and then on the shelf, it is probably too much (depending on your disposable income). But generally speaking, gamers have always been cheap, continue to be cheap, and will always be cheap. I suggest most...

The problem with this question is tat it ignores how much magical thinking humans have always had and still do have. In the West, we tend to think of superstition and magical thinking as "backwards" but we still read our horoscopes and jiggle our crystals and cross ourselves when we enter a...