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Making a die roll is inherently not the same as relying on the dice. In many games, it may be that the results on the dice become insignificant as compared to character assets for a particular test or check. If my Eat Cupcakes skill is +20, and the difficulty for Eat Cupcakes skill tests is...

To be fair, there are not a lot of adjectives that start with "X" and a Xenodochial Xvart would probably not be that frightening. So, an egg-yolk elemental-kin it had to be.

I am just starting up Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and HG Wells's War of the Worlds.

Animated Armoires Bilious Barghests Cavorting Catoplebas Devious Devils Enraged Elementals Frightening Firbolgs Galavanting Grimlocks Hellraising Huecuvas Irritable Ifrits Jabbering Jackalweres Killer Kobolds Lurking Lizardfolk Menacing Minotaurs Nefarious Nagas Obstreperous Oni Perilous...

I have just started Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and have just finished Bram Stoker's Dracula. The latter has a story structure much more akin to modern novels than I would have expected.

Maybe we could change it to "Warlord"...

I prefer the convention used in Type III D&D of Type (Humanoid, Dragon, Aberration, etc.) and Subtype (Elf, Human, Orc, Shapechanger, etc.), though it was inconsistently applied.

I think one important mechanism to a Spelljammer Campaign supplement would be some way to generate content. Tables by which to generate spheres, planets, civilizations, fantasy aliens, ships, cargoes, commodities, and so on. These tables would likely look a bit similar to those found in...

I am typically pretty up front with people that I'm going to be spending any amount of time with outside of public, to let them know that I do not self censor in private, and that if they have any issues, that they would most likely be happier if they were not to associate with me. It is...

I taught myself (and my friends) how to play with no adult interference. When I was a youth, we (my parents and I) would sometimes venture into the city to visit my maternal grandmother. Often on these trips, my father would go to a nearby hobby store to look at model railroad stuff. It was...

This is very much the way that I treated the IEN in my most recent Spelljammer game. They weren't bad per say, but they were very much of the opinion that they were right, and that their policies would bear out as such over time, no matter what anyone else said. My players' characters hated...

This is also an excellent use of GM preauthoring of content. It allows for engagement of the creative process. Coming up with ideas, thinking them over, deciding which ones are good or bad, 'polishing' them, as it were.

Thank you for offering up such a great deal and helping those poor doctors get some borders.

Not with that attitude, you won't. There are tons of other historical examples of things like, people voluntarily going with their families into gas chambers, or families killing their daughters because of a regulatory policy on the number of allowable children, as well as numbers on extortion...

They're only extremely rare because they are the most extreme cases of such action. Look at all of the millions of people who smoke, or overeat, or spend too much money on their romantic partners. These are all instances of people acting against their own best interests, usually at the urging...

Many (not all) of the people at Jonestown knew that the Kool-Aid was poisoned. There is also the more recent case of the Massachusetts woman recently convicted of convincing her boyfriend to kill himself, among innumerable other examples.

Except, in the really real world, people are convinced to act against their own best interests, or those of their loved ones all the time (e.g. all the people at Jonestown who drank that poisoned kool-aid).

I was 8.

Over the many iterations of D&D, I have vastly preferred to play in the upper (teens through twenties) levels. Games that start in the lower levels tend not to last long enough to reach the higher levels, but not all games start at the lower levels.

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