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No it's not. That's given as the example in the DMG, and some players latched onto it and took it as a holy commandment from on high, then a lot of people who didn't read the DMG for themselves took the word of the first lot for it without checking.

Runeterra, the setting for League of Legends. No, I'm completely serious! Riot have really expanded on the lore for their world beyond "goofy fantasy mashup setting", making it into a coherent whole and giving the different factions depth and development. Considering the actual game barely uses...

Well, what a lot of social media says is "Why are we making oxygen on Mars when India needs it more?" Along with the familiar breast-beating about how we're "polluting" and "ruining" the freezing, choking, irradiated wasteland. ....social media has some really stupid content on it, if you...

As I recall, the big sticking point was the term "Abomination" for a werewolf / vampire hybrid, used in WoD to describe the same thing.

My own it'll-never-happen adaptation dream would be Demon: The Fallen. This seems to be the really unloved latecomer among the original World Of Darkness, but I'd rate it as my second favourite, or absolute favourite if we're not counting the anniversary edition of Changeling. Introduce the...

I was disagreeing with the notion that there was some systematic and universal war between werewolves and vampires like in Underworld. Yes, they were usually hostile when they met, but there was no big top-down war. In the WoD, each splat kept to itself to a sometimes-implausible degree (apart...

That doesn't really describe Vampire.....okay, okay, it probably describes how more than a few actual games of Vampire were played. But the WoD didn't really have a systematic vendetta of one group against the other, just a lot of isolated turf wars. The original focus of Vampire, (at least...

In terms of the game itself, Exalted 3e, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Story time: I loved Exalted when it first came out. It was a really fresh take on fantasy RPG's, with a setting I can still lose myself in, years later. But the rules system was always....White Wolf levels of quality, and the...

How many canon characters are explicitly right-handed? Among the many who aren't described as being either, I'd assume normal demographics apply.

There's a bit of topic drift going on here. Politics affecting the PC's (even if they're not invested in the politics) are not the same thing as political intrigue the PC's are getting directly involved in.

I hang out on a creative writing forum, and every few weeks, you'll see someone who is convinced they're a literary genius because their work doesn't involve tropes (which is impossible), or because they've inverted a trope in a way that's so well-trodden it's become its own cliche (spunky...

I'm the same way with anything that has villain protagonists. It always feels like the writer gets just a bit too carried away with making excuses for horrible people doing horrible things, and the fans are way too quick to forgive evil people just so long as they're charismatic and / or pretty...

Okay, you definitely haven't watched the last two seasons.

There was a supplement for the Palladium Fantasy RPG called Library of Bletherad, which was centered around, well, a great library. Apart from being an amazing book in general (seriously, check it out, there's so much good stuff that could be imported into any RPG), it did have some ideas for...

I've got a Goliath ranger in my Primeval Thule game, and he's huge fun. When I added them to the setting, I didn't change things too much, just made them ancient enemies of the Hyperborean civilisation from the utter north.

I'm honestly curious--is there any announcement WotC could make about anything that you wouldn't take as an indication of a big inter-franchise crossover? :)

Funny thing is, that's probably the wildly original and radical take on orcs now, :)

That, and the more effective in-fight healing is, the more PC's are pushed towards being dull, optimal healbots.

And the more that "restore HP before 0" is a good tactic, the more druids and clerics will be looking at all the awesome things they could be doing with their turn, sighing wistfully and going back to being a hit point vending machine.

I look forward to my Facebook feed filling with a hundred "this bunch of pixels here is totally an alien horseradish" posts. But this is very cool. :)