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It's also harder to convince the robo-GM to let you reroll your skill check if you make sure to grab it a new beer the next time you're up, or flatter the GM to secure better treatment. On the other hand, it's probably never too early to start, just in case... You know I've always thought that...

It's been said so many times but I suppose it could be said again... But just because a game made a decision that you, personally, don't like, it does not mean that the game designers were trying to spite you or tell you that your preference is badwrongfun. Creating a set of rules involves...

Who would start a story with some yokel from a moisture farm shooting womp rats or a gardener sneaking around his buddy's window to listen to an old man ramble about history by the fireplace? Sounds like a terrible campaign.

Animated Armor 12 Iron Golem 10+1=11 Shield Guardian 8-2=6 Stone Golem 13

In the "GMs and players should have been given equal weight" thing, I'm also pretty sure they didn't just take the survey results, calculate opinions that were in the majority on each topic, and then spit out a system based on majority rules. They took the feedback into account, tried to make...

That's fair enough, you're welcome to your own preferences as always. Hopefully you understand why GMs like me will occasionally fall into the "he seems pretty sad about something to you" language rather than holding ourselves to strict rules about that sort of thing. No harm meant, it just can...

Lots of things to unpack here, but I won't get super into each one in the interest of respecting the thread topic. But briefly: In terms of DMs who want to keep the PCs on rails, the real issue here is the railroad, IMO. Now I'm not actually against railroads per se, I think as long as the GM...

Okay. I mean that's fine, I don't have a problem with people who disagree. But for me, the hit point inflation thing (and that wasn't the only thing I was referring to when I talk about pace of mechanical advancement, gaining new abilities and increasing skills and scope of methods to deal...

Yeah those quotes are a decent representation of how I typically GM, too. I mean I might say "he looks like he's lying" and not "he's lying" or "you think he's lying", which I think is the heart of the complaint. Some players don't want the GM telling them how their character is thinking or...

Well yes, I know. I never said that they were indivisible, or that D&D's systems are necessary for the hero's journey. That should be pretty self-evident, because the hero's journey is a literary trope that precedes D&D rules by several millenia. I just said that one of the things that I like...

I think an adventure path set in Theros which is just a bunch of islands that your party sails to on an extended ocean voyage to get somewhere would be great. Just The Odyssey as an adventure path, with each island being a really mini hexcrawl with some side quests and quality dungeon maps...

:D My post was actually a joke, I'm super stoked about BG3 and have posted a bunch of hype about it here on the forums. Every time I look at a post and think "okay that's so hyperbolic nobody could take it seriously, I can leave out the /s", it turns out that the internet is not a place where...

Astarion is actually elvish for "soulless corporate cash-grab" though, so it still sends the wrong message.

Animated Armor 15 Helmed Horror 15 Iron Golem 13+1=14 Shield Guardian 13 Steel Predator 6-2=4 Stone Golem 15

Yup, AI can finally do everything we can do, but better. I went over to one of the neural nets and had it generate an adventure plot for me based on the first two sentences from Amazon's blurb for Descent into Avernus. The computer GM's pitch was as follows (bold parts taken from the module's...

It's a special metal from the Eberron campaign setting that is effective against aberrations there. The silver to their werewolf, essentially. I mentioned it because I made aboleths immune to all physical damage, including magical weapons, unless it was made of byeshk in one of my games, to...

I've always loved the idea of Spelljammer, but never had the occasion to actually play it. This thread is making it highly likely I look into running a game that eventually brings in Spelljammer stuff... Which resources would be the best way for me to learn about the setting? (also sorry those...

Oh, so now my kawaii aberration campaign is apparently badwrongfun. I SEE HOW IT IS. (There probably aren't)

Yeah, the glaring omission of rules for that sort of thing is proof that WotC never took MY playtest data into account when making 5E.... Behold me sempai~