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I think there's a lot of ideological elements in discussions of sandboxes that obscure what's actually going on. In your traditional Hex Crawl you will often have safer areas and more dangerous areas with different types of encounter tables and different elements of risk. And the dangerous...

The thing about the Quantom Ogre is that it is an informed choice. It's not that the players know about the ogre, but the information they have suggests that there is at least a chance they will encounter the thing they are looking for (which is not an Ogre). So it's less about having a choice...

As so often in these discussions it feels like you are assuming certain things to be the case here which haven't been explicitly stated.

I don't know. I think meaningless choices should be avoided, but choices can have meaning regardless of a specific encounter. If you decide to travel north there will be some fixed things that can only be north (eg cities, climate etc). But there might be a good bandit encounter (And I don't...

To be clear, people think this sort of thing is what the Quantum Ogre situation is about, but it's not.

I'm bemused by this idea, because, while I quite like Goliaths, we've had quite similar threads to this about Goliaths.

Yes. That's basically what I had in mind when I said it wasn't necessarily impossible. I didn't mean that the contradiction didn't exist, just that there were certain approaches that can sort of work. Notably I think 3 and 4 while they can somewhat work, are what I had in mind when I was...

Personally I think it's time they renamed humans to make the connection between humans and halflings clear. Call them either "wholelings" or maybe just "lings"

My personal take on dwarves in recent years has been to make them both a diaspora and cursed. They have lost their old mountain home and dispersed through human lands but there is no agreed Thorin Oakenshield as the heir awaitng. Instead there is acrimony and bitter blood feuds. "Every dwarf...

The example I gave was definitely not intended to be an X card sort of situations (although I guess it could be). It was purely about the direction of the fiction in the game. The concern was more about the game going in a direction that players or GM might not want. If Bob's character starts...

I didn't say solely. I have no interest in who's responsible theoretically. I'm interested in how these things are best dealt with practically. I still think it's better if the GM acts first in this kind of interest regardless of whatever else has been agreed upon. For the simple fact that...

I've mostly stayed out of this side-argument because it's been going on for twenty years and it bores me at this point. But I do feel the need to point out that the example I gave of lack of GM leadership was not a social situation outide of the game. It's not as if it was about the GM...

Dwarves in Symbaroum are interesting and go back in some ways to their original Norse mythological origins. I'm going to copy someone else's summary because I'm lazy Also, no beards.

Yeah, say what you like about halflings but at least they're not elves!

Yeah, almost everyone else had an underdark equivalent. Where are the deep humans?

Yeah I think it is. The only real true distinction from humans is their greater pluck. Potential levels of pluck being a quality of directly inverse proportionality to one's height.

Yes. Although I think trad games, and in particular D&D as many people expect it to be played these days, suffer hugely in this regard from GM burnout and lack of GMs. Ultimately I'm not sure this is a style of play that by and large people who are able to run games week in, week out, actively...

Their shortness is also heightened. Or er...shortened.

People just weirdly overthink things. People play halflings because they want to play short plucky heroes. Anything beyond that is pretty limited to probably less than 1% of D&D players.