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“The industry” is Wizkids. No one else does pre-painted miniatures on a meaningful scale. Your point is accurate, though I feel most collectors know that what they are actually getting falls well short of the illustrations.

I’ve stopped supporting Kickstarters, period. It’s too unpredictable, and like many Canadians I’m now avoiding buying anything from America as much as possible, for both practical and, frankly, patriotic reasons.

This is a huge sore spot as my best friend and I were FINALLY all booked for Gen Con, which has been on our list for more than forty years.We had an awesome hotel, Critical Role tickets, the works. And then a certain person decided to make the US a very unwelcoming destination for Canadians, so...

Yeah, I couldn't help but kind of root for Deidre even though she is so awful, because Gough is that good.

So I finally got around to watching the second half of the season. To recap, I love season 1 and think it is arguably the best show in the entire franchise, including the films. I was generally underwhelmed by the first half of season 2, though it improved a lot after what felt (to me) like a...

I would like to see the current rules become less complicated, not more...

TSR's attempt to publish a bunch of different versions of D&D for different settings is ultimately what killed the company, though, as reported in Slaying the Dragon, per WotC's forensic accounting. I agree with your point, but I think different settings are best handled by 3PP, as they mostly...

The current MM includes this disclaimer: I don't bother with alignment, so I pick my dragons according to whatever miniature I really want to use. If that means a villainous gold dragon, then so be it!

Well, they're fantasy creatures with specific abilities, so it's a useful way to know whether you are grabbing the stat blcok for one with lightning versus one with fire. Therefore, if the game didn't organize them by colour it would probably just organize them by breath weapon, which seems a...

Agreed, though as this looks to be basically just coloured, transluscent plastic, the actual model should look closer to the render than normal.

And that's not tyrannical? What about if you play D&D as a cooperative game where the players and DM are responding to each other? I agree that, at a certain point, if a ruling is needed then it works well to have the DM make it. But in terms of the way the story is going, I always have a lot...

I use colours to determine stat blocks, when I feel like it, but don't worry about attaching their colour to behaviours and so on. I'll paint my dragons however I like, without worrying about D&D conventions. It makes no difference as far as the game goes. Note that colour coded dragons predate...

My favourites are the D&D originals: owlbear, displacer beast, gelatinous cube, beholder, mind flayer, mimic, and so on.

Again, that seems to be your experience, but it is not a universal truth. Case in point, D&D Club at my school is open to all, and I cannot deny kids the right to play unless they are breaking school rules. In my home game, I am the DM, but the story is built in cooperation with the players...

For my fantsy RPGs I strongly prefer high fantasy, and my least favourite is grimdark. I find it depressing. And I also hate psionics. So...not for me.

I think a lot of these simulationist rules are vestigial, but they are easy enough to ignore, and it’s okay to have them around for players who like a more hardcore game. More of them could be made optional so as not to confuse newer players.

Speak for your own D&D social contract. We see it as a cooperative game, not a dictatorship. We did recently mutually agree that a player was not a good fit, and then I had a conversation with him. He turned out to agree. We’re still close. One of my (many) problems with alignment is that it...

How can a player interpret THEIR character anything but correctly?

Yet, rather oddly, Mercer runs Daggerheart in Age of Umbra almost exactly the same way that he runs D&D and other games, even at times "fixing" player descriptions of their monster kills. The only instance I can recall of players being handed the narrative reains was briefly in episode 7 (I...

I agree. I also suggested Fiasco in my response, as it is great for one-shots and tends to have such gonzo plots that players don't feel a lot of pressure to contribute in a certain style. I've played with all sorts of different players, most of whom never GM, and they have all loved it (but I...