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If PDKs are a boring organization, why not just put them to bed? Why the need to retool them into something that makes little sense for PDKs and even less sense for amethyst dragons? The ol’ Dragon mag purple dragons were such a deep cut with no significant role in D&D, so the 4E lore to roll...

No one is suggesting D&D shouldn’t have the possibility for knights to ride dragons. (Although there’s a whole other setting about that, it’s called Dragonlance, you may have heard of it.) Whereas the practice of dragon-riding hasn’t been common in FR nor most other D&D settings because it kind...

It’s pretty wild to use your own ignorance and apathy about a franchise to justify why you think it should change to be more “cool”. I’ve never been interested in Downton Abbey but I’d never suggest to its fans that it would be a lot cooler with spaceships and bikini-babes on motorcycles...

For whatever it’s worth, Starfinder feels like a specific subgenre of science fantasy. It’s basically Guardians of the Galaxy, and perhaps it’s gonna need more tweaking to achieve Star Trek or certainly Alien.

Hallelujah! It’s encouraging to hear that WotC actually responds to criticism about butchering their own lore. A Purple Dragon Knight with a literal dragon pet makes as much sense as a Fighter with a fighter jet.

Literally. I ain’t got time for another new game, but a full service sci-fi expansion for my existing PF2 game? Yes please! Damn smart move on Paizo’s part to make them fully compatible

Ninjas yes, but also don’t forget the kung-fu craze of the 70s, which also influenced D&D’s portrayal of Asian-ish stuff

This is interesting. It sounds the there’s a decent amount of thematic overlap with XCC (the “dungeon crawling as televised sports” spin-off of DCC by Goodman Games).

How many Ss are in Asstarion?

Back in 3.X days, every single D&D product from WotC got released with a free DLC “web enhancement” of bonus content, no login required.

Trying your hand at rules/game design feels like a rite of passage in this hobby once we start GMing. Play long enough and eventually you’ll decide something would be better if… Of course, that’s not even Step 1, that’s just how you decide to start thinking about making your own game, lol.

I hear what you’re saying, and yes there are some gems over on Reddit. But without good, stable moderation over the long term, it’s all transient. Nothing good over there lasts, because once people discover how good it is, it starts to erode. Here at ENWorld we’ve got solid moderation keeping...

Counterpoint: A lot of people use ENWorld for free and assume that it’s sufficiently supported by ad revenue, which may not always be true. Beyond ENWorld, most people don’t pay for most of their news—small wonder that journalism is disappearing! A few months ago I was reflecting on how much I...

What you’re describing sounds a lot like a bond.

Yeah that’s wild. Might be different if was explicitly some kind of co-operative. Good luck to them I guess. I thought you were joking about the bricks until I read it, lol

I was thinking of Métis too! Obviously it can be problematic to compare a real-world culture to a fictional one, but there’s at least a structural basis of comparison between Métis and Khoravar. For those who don’t know this term, in Canada “Métis” is a recognized ethno-cultural group whose...

This is technically correct in the biological sense, that’s true. But it still feels kind weird to talk about any kind of person as a biological “hybrid”—that’s language we normally reserve for animals, and sorta implies that it’s not a “legitimate” category of being.

LOL well alright then, that’ll do it

I didn’t phrase myself well, my bad. I know Eberron always called them “Khoravar” (well, specifically that was the particular main culture of half-elves). For some reason I had thought that 5E Eberron had dropped the term “half-elf” for Khoravar… turns out they just dropped half-elves.