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Sorcerer or Rogue, wearing leather armour.

Thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't considered them being the same Guld by default. I'd leave that to the players to decide but it might be an interesting idea to suggest if they want to do it. The fact that the Guild Membership isn't technically a background is a fair point, and it is why I...

Strange Aeons, the Lovecraftian adventure path.

So... coming back into D&D 5 with the new 2024 release and I'm using the old Bard's Gate city setting from Necromancer Games as my base for future campaigns. The world will expand as we create it going forwards. In Bard's Gate there are numerous guilds that characters can join. Pay you dues and...

In D&D but Pathfinder 1st edition has two adventure paths which have you visit Earth. One takes you to 1918 Russia and the other to 1890's Paris. Personally I like to keep Earth out of my cosmology. The closest I came was a 3.X setting that never got used, using Atlantis as the setting and...

In the early 90's in a 2nd ed AD&D setting I wrote, there was an ancient insectoid race called the Thrax. They became sci-fi advanced and eventually left for the stars, leaving the world for whatever came after them. Those Thrax who stayed eventually de-evolved become the Thri-Kreen.

I was never a Gygax fanboy. To me he had respect for "inventing" role-playing games and D&D. I never saw anything as misogynistic but that's probably because I never really read that much into anything as a young person. It was for something different that I lost any respect or interest in the...

My current group started in 1992 although of the original members, there is only two of us. The other members joined as others left over the last 20 years.

Ancient Dungeon. Too many fights.

Basic D&D used the term Immortal.

For my homebrew campaign setting the following films (I'm more a visual person): The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Soloman Kane. Dragonslayer. The Sorcerer's Apprentice. D&D: Wrath of the Dragon God. Brotherhood of the Wolf. Dagon. The Mist (film not...

Physical dice all the way for me. Part of the fun is rolling those dice and the tactile approach of that.

Lately I've been thinking about this. My initial idea was to let players create their desired background (within reason) but I'm also pondering whether to make more campaign setting specific backgrounds as an option.

That is basically what I'm going to do. It just seems to make more sense to me.

I've learnt something new today so thank you all. :) However, I would say that the real world uses of priest or cleric are different to the in game uses. Within most D&D settings I would say that the two titles are interchangeable. As for paladin I would say they used to represent the holy...

For me, I think it comes down to the naming convention. In my mind a cleric is a priest and priest's usually worship/serve a deity. I used to find it odd that clerics could serve other paranormal entities as they seemed more the aspect of a sorcerer or warlock. Serving a concept or just tapping...

From my perspective, no, it's not a new edition. Just as 3.5 was an update rather than a full new game. 5.5 is no different.

When I'm a player, I'm in the minority. You could give me a 50 page document about your world and I'd read it, print it out and bring it with me to the game. I'd rather be immersed in the setting but as others have said most players aren't. I think keeping it to a paragraph or two isn't enough...

That is when you introduce it. My experience is that no one wants to be infodumped and often players would rather learn something organically. The other way to do it is if it comes up as something relevant during character creation. That is why a session zero is so popular. You can work little...

Abandoned House. Cursed Staff. Ghosts.