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Where's the option for "that's not what I'm looking for at all, so it's a negative?" The options go with much finer gradation than needed from it's important to I'm apathetic. Where's the scale below that were you're actually hostile to the idea, or at least that's not what you want your game to...

I don't think anything changed, and CRPG and TTRPG were always in use. If you say RPG without the qualifier, it depends on context and your audience. CRPGs started being called just RPGs because the people talking about them mostly ONLY played CRPGs, so there was no other kind of RPG that...

Depends on the character. Some of them need to die every session

Ironically, Basic Fantasy RPG gets the snub here in the timeline, for some reason.

Amanda Palmer has suggested that there's well over a dozen women who have come to her with complaints, so this scandal is likely just getting started. And Gaiman's podcast about it didn't help, and if anything seemed to confirm at least inappropriate sexual harassment of young girls that worked...

It's amazing to me that people are wringing their hands over Gary Gygax, but I can't find a thread on Neil Gaiman in the media subforum, or anywhere else. Or the more cynical me isn't actually amazed, sadly.

I should probably clarify... I'm not super informed about 5e mechanics. I'm talking about backgrounds more generally as they've been used in the hobby and even in some versions of D&D, D&D settings and D&D spinoffs.

I'm not going to get into the justifications for why "species is better" because it's not. Also most people who confidently throw out a middle school definition of species have no idea of the debate and difficulties current in academic biology, especially with all of the data that genetics is...

I'm not even sure how to answer that beyond just: no. You're absolutely wrong. But I'll try. You asked why throw race (and potentially class) under the bus for background. Because your background can already do what race did, and maybe even class in some rules-lighter versions of the game...

Flippantly, because species isn't race. I'm happy to throw the concept of "species" under the bus exactly because the first question for years has been pick your fantasy race and class. That said, and I know this seems like a mutually exclusive concept, race and class effectively IS background...

Pedantic point: of course not because d&d is the first rpg as we understand the term. Realistically: yeah, Call of Cthulhu.

It's also not fun to do. It makes combat feel like accounting. Lots of people didn't really mind it, but nobody liked it or preferred it (yes, that's a rhetorical nobody and you don't win anything by showing up and saying you were the exception except for a "Socially Awkward Nerd of the Day"...

Eh. Sorta. There are villains beyond the scope of the PCs. Like The Ten Who Were Taken. But they're beyond the scope of the PCs. In fact, if the PCs were to pull a Scully, they can disbelieve that they're even real. They're are other BEGs, who while maybe not campaign capper BBEGs are still...

I'd create my own date, like the two nerdy kids in Weird Science.

I wouldn't have said that, but especially after 2023 I certainly can't think of any reasonable reason to treat WotC like they deserve anything better. They've demonstrated multiple times that they are not to be trusted... so why would anyone feel obligated to trust them?

I played OD&D, BD&D, B/X and AD&D in the earliest to middle 80s, then left D&D entirely right around the time that "1.5" was coming out, although not because of that. Came back for the 3.x era, didn't adopt 4e, and left d20 games for good in the late 00s or early 10s. I don't play any modern...

It's probably more a veiled allusion to scientifically correct polling methodology and sample selection. While that's not entirely inappropriate as a caveat, in my experience it's mostly pulled out to dismiss data sight unseen that contradicts the narrative that the person making that allusion...

Sounds like a great session to me. I mean, that's a brutally long combat encounter, but that's the nature of 3.x and beyond rules. Other than that, it sounds incredibly memorable. It is possible, however, that there's a style mismatch. It sounds like maybe you're wanting to run a very tactical...