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This is factually wrong; in ESB Vader says "Luke, you can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny! Join me, and together, we can rule the galaxy as father and son!" He was ready to betray the Emperor with his son before RotJ was even written. Convincing a Sith to betray a...

What you wrote looks like a complete non-sequitor to me - changes in loyalty (especially changing to and then back to a particular group) are much smaller than a fundamental restructuring of someone's life. Switching between one of two similar car-stealing teams and back (which is my guess at...

That's definitely true, I've seen a lot of tablets and phones at gaming tables. But there's also a decent number of people (like me) who don't use DND beyond when playing online.

Yes, fundamentally changing someone's mind in a way that forces them to give up their current occupation, lifestyle, and diet is generally hard. Meanwhile killing someone is not an overly difficult task, especially with the mismatch in power between PCs and a typical NPC. Think about it IRL - it...

One major issue is that Beyond only allows for limited rules customization, and doesn't fully support high level characters. You can't make custom classes or majorly customize classes for example, and last I checked, it doesn't natively support Epic Boons, and instead you have to kludge them in...

Isn't there a lot of dispute over who controls the IP in the Gygax estate? IIRC at least two of his sons have been suing and arguing with his widow over who owns what, and there have been words and legal actions since at least 2011, and the last I heard one of the sons had filed a new will that...

I like that I was reading the names involved, they mentioned Larry Elmore, I wondered "is he doing art for this?" and then scrolled down to the cover and had my answer even though I can't read the signature.

As I'm not a long distance mind reader, I go off of what is written when I write a response. Asking why I didn't use information that you didn't provide is a bit much.

If this was in D&D 5e, I'd rule that the player made a decent action declaration but has no reason to roll persuasion since success isn't possible, or that he needs to roll persuasion but success just means the hunter doesn't get mad at him, or maybe that the hunter humors him to get him to can...

Assuming that all of the dozen people who answered the question in a way you don't like didn't actually answer the question is probably not the best way to encourage discussion, especially when you assume that they actually meant something much more extreme than what the question asked. Also...

Why would people mean something VERY different from a 'no' to what the original question asked? The original question postulated a campaign with "no other major limitations are presented, and it is going to otherwise be a "typical" D&D campaign of the sort you prefer," and so I (and probably a...

I voted no, because part of the enjoyment of a "typical" D&D campaign is having the option for playing elves, gnomes, and other non-humans, and a background where they're all around. "You have to be human in a typical D&D world" sounds more like the DM has issues with lots of pieces of the game...

I think you're saying that as a joke, but this is exactly the kind of thing I like to see in TTRPGs that can't really happen in CRPGs. It's possible that the invulnerable door could be a thing the party carries around for the rest of the campaign and finds uses for.

Those are not like the situations the OP published - the door in the Hobbit can be read by anyone if they're there at the right time, same with the keyholes. I think it would be more similar if the writing could only be read if you had an Easterling who studied a particular piece of lore, which...

The reason that I like TTRPGs enough to put in the effort to coordinate to play them with other people instead of playing things like CRPGs or MMORPGs is that you have an actual person abjudicating your interaction with the game instead of a PC. This means that you aren't limited to CRPG or...

This is a good example of what I meant before about forestory vs backstory. You're putting things that in a lot of settings would be distant background in the foreground for players to be a part of, which in my experience makes a huge difference in engagement. A lot of game setups just have a...

Generally players care about frontstory and not backstory; that is, they care about parts of the world that the PCs actually engage with, but not bunches of obscure lore. Players aren't going to care that Svegny and Ruritania had a history of war until 231 years ago when the Duke Elsmitty and...

Traps should have a duration listed, if not I'd base the duration off whatever spell or poison they're trying to emulate, but you're probably missing a duration. Wands, Staves, and Rods all list what is required to use them - for example, a wand of magic missiles is usable by anyone and does...

Did the party have any saving throw cantrips or anyone who can spam magic missile? The first time I threw them at players, they found out that the displacement stopped when they did damage, so they had a mage spam magic missile (it still used up a form and a half for the moon druid before they...

Yes. It's usually not in the form of completely bad builds like strength-based wizards, but instead builds that don't actually work that well. I've seen a lot of theorycraft builds on forums that rely on having several short (sub-day and especially sub-hour) buffs running, that then take 2-3...