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If you're gonna poo-poo Kimberle Crenshaw's work (ditto Patricia Hill-Collins and other Black feminists), at least know what she says about the terminology she came up with (which "intersectionalist" is...not the correct form of). It sounds like calling D&D 5e bad game design because of THAC0.

Once again going against my better judgment to comment. I'm not trying to pick on you, but: Why do y'all need all this coddling? For all the times I've heard people say that progressive-leaning people are special snowflakes looking for something to be offended about, I've seen more people in...

I'm going against my better judgment here and responding to this because it's something that seems to trip a lot of people up whenever it gets brought up. As a person who is neither white, male nor straight, I've participated in the privilege conversation many times, and I've never seen it as...

In a way, this is why I'm glad I'm not the new hire because being Black, Jewish, female and gay has would have sorts of Unfortunate Implications written all over the responses I'd predictably get.

The overtly inclusive text and environment certainly didn't hurt, though.

Just played a bard based on Cookie Lyon this weekend at an Adventurers' League game. She used vicious mockery to literally insult wounds onto her enemies (usually by saying something about their mother), cast dissonant whispers to mess with their heads, and she occasionally whacked something...

Quick question: why don't the people who find bards silly...just not play them?

I think that's a more appropriate question for the people who designed the class and made the art. So, my question for you is: what's your goal now? What's your purpose? You started a thread with a blanket assertion about bards being silly. People who like the bard, or at least don't find it...

When I think of a bard, I think of them in mythical rather than historical terms. I think Orpheus, whose music had power even over Hades. I think the sirens who could lure sailors to their deaths with their song. I think the Pied Piper, who played his flute to rid a city of rats and later, of...

Same. I'd love to see the possibilities of separating Sea from Tempest, or perhaps adding a domain like Love, but I'm pretty happy with the options we have thus far.

Certainly. I think these would be the only kind of D&D campaigns I'd play. If someone started up a Discworld game (or joined one I GMed), I'd be down.

I'd love to hear about some of your favorite non-Western campaign settings. It doesn't matter if its published or homebrew. It can be based on a work of fiction or made specifically for D&D. All that matters for the purpose of this thread is that the setting doesn't take Western cultures, norms...

I doubt I'll ever play this, but this is a great idea, and I hope you flesh out the setting and provide some adventure hooks too.

I've come up with an interpretation that Wisdom is essentially your awareness of things outside yourself, from the physical environment to other people's feelings and intentions to the presence of the divine.

This is pretty cool. Here's an idea: If you have an Intelligence score of 12 or higher, you gain a number of extra skill and tool proficiencies equal to your Intelligence modifier. You must choose them from the following: Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Religion, forgery kit...

I agree. I even tweaked 5e to make a True20 variant, including an overhaul of magic.

Let's get beyond failing a death save and Rocks Fall Everyone Dies. Share the most unique and entertaining ways you've seen a Player Character get dispatched in a D&D game.

I don't necessarily think in terms of specific actions I'd want to do, but the stories I'd want to emulate. Things like: The Odyssey: pitting my skill against the wrath of the sea god Poseidon, sailing between Charybdis and Scylla, resisting the call of the Sirens Jason and the Argonauts...

I think Sword of Spirit may have meant background features, not the whole backgrounds themselves.

Exactly what it says on the tin. What is the most interesting adventuring party concept you've ever run or played in? I don't mean campaign settings or modules. I'm talking about the basic concept of the adventuring party. For instance: the PCs are a group of entertainers traveling the land...