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I know I'm 140 replies deep here, but I'm curious what sorts of subsystems you like, and what value you derive from them.

You have to wait until 17th level for your Arcane Trickster rogue to steal spells? All them Arcane Tricksters should have chosen to be Last Raven wizards, who learn to filch magic from 2nd level. Last Raven | Level Up

I did a wholly inadequate amount of planning for this plot, though I like the idea of needing to win the favor of the temple of the love goddess. Turns out my party wanted to investigate a side quest I hadn't really planned, and so the romance plot will begin next week. --- Instead they spoke...

TL;DR - how do I make "arranging a marriage" into an adventure for a D&D party? Love is ineffable, but political marriages don't need love. So what sub-goals should the party need to achieve to make the marriage work? --- In a Bronze Age Mesopotamia-esque setting where stone tablets have...

Man, this sent me down a rabbit hole of looking for Bronze Age art, and almost immediately, I see this: Ugh. So like, I search for ziggurat, and I find both this really fabulous vivid piece that has text at the bottom explaining that it's inspired by Chogha Zanbil, an Elamite ruin that's one...

I was playing in a jokey game, and I made an absolute Drizzt knock-off, then used ChatGPT to create prompts like, "In the style of novelist R.A. Salvatore, what would a hero who fights with two scimitars say to a witch as he was attacking?" The point was to be derivative, not creative. We had...

Immolating inquisitors with runic chainmail sound neat. A repentant Haddin, though, is very atypical. I think you might be the first GM to go that route. Most people play him as a right uncaring bastard. I admit, I am personally fond of chubby Kazyk, but yeah (I role-played him with a voice...

Thanks everyone for the ideas.

I had the party encounter some pirates who just wanted to chat, but the party got spooked and ran them off instead of getting to know them and hearing the status of the city. I added a thing where visitors to the city needed, like, passports, and since they were there illicitly, their pilot...

The party arrives in a riverside town in tonight's session. They're getting a ride from as river pirate who's also a popular bard, because criminals have street cred. Their long term goal is to ambush and heist a royal treasure barge coming this way in a few months. They're here to lay the...

Ah, always a delight to see players hating Haddin.

Sounds like he was insulting the company leadership that treated shareholder profits as more important than customer satisfaction and employee well-being. I don't begrudge people for investing. I begrudge people who make choices that hurt the people who actually make the company successful, and...

I think of Pathfinder's Golarion, where the nation of Cheliax has plenty of demons running around. Or the Magic: the Gathering setting Ravnica, where sphinxes can hold, like, elected office as judges, and angels serve in the military. What are some settings that do interesting things with this...