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Well yes. But that's not the point. I can also add Darth Vader to my D&D campaign even though I have no permission from Disney to use that character in that particular game. This does not mean that I have somehow committed a slight against George Lucas (or Disney) by using his character in a way...

This is actually well-done and really helps people avoid unexpected surprises! Thank you :)

If you like playing the same character across multiple games (I know some people who play the same character from D&D to World of Warcraft), sure, they can have the same name, personality, core concept etc... Provided those fit the campaign we're running. I'd strongly encourage a player to not...

While I respect whichever cosmology you use for your games, you have to admit this is a very strange and uncommonly held ontology for fiction. Batman has a thousand different variations (Silver Age, New 52, Modern, 90s Animated Series, Nolan, Snyderverse, Arkhamverse...) and nobody thinks it's...

But why are you assuming that it's the same character? I feel like it's really obvious that when you take a friend's character as an NPC in your game, what happens is the "clone or copy" situation as you describe it. Unless the DM who used that character has an insane multiverse theory that...

Page 9 please!

I haven't looked at the drama for a while, but did LaNasa actually found a company named OSR GAMES? He really likes sullying wider swaths of the hobby, doesn't he...

Boring answer, but I agree with the others who say that it's a co-ownership situation. When it's the exact same character, in the exact same setting, and I want to use the character in a way that changes their status quo (say it turned out that a character got married in their epilogue but I...

I'm honestly surprised by people's negative reaction to the XP curve. Ever since I first discovered it, I thought it was a clever piece of design. What you call "blurting out stuff", I call "giving the players the chance to actually see high levels for once". It's not like 5e is singular in not...

I think your premise is false. You can very well have petty reasons for not doing something even when there is no duty to do that thing. Nobody has a duty to wear green, but if I say that I refuse to wear green because a guy who wore green looked at me funny once and now I hate green clothes...

I still regularly use it for my D&D games. I think it works quite well as background and combat music.

I get the feeling, absolutely. But in the end, even with the sped-up progression, every level lasts at least an adventuring day. I think what you're supposed to do around that time is to add much more downtime between each adventure. That way, your high-level PCs still spend a lot of time...

Except designers have continuously said that the game's sweet spot is levels 5-10, and I'm pretty sure we can find an article from D&D Next playtest that shows that this was intentional if we dig hard enough.

But it's not out of whack. It's intended. You're intended to breeze through later levels because the game gets too complicated for a prolonged campaign, but you want people to to see the reality-bending powers of Tier 4. I mentioned it earlier in the thread.

I try to end a session when the story is also winding up, so long rests tend to be good for that (especially if it's right before a level up in which case there's downtime as well). But I've never finished a game mid-combat, and I think that's one of the worst things a GM can ever do.

I mean this sincerely, I'm interested in what the Content Warning on page 9 is for. On the one hand, it's good practice but on the other I'm curious as to what the warned content could be.

I tried similarly complex rules for my 5e campaign, but if your characters don't like the bookkeeping for regular camp supplies, they provably won't like these rules either. Have you considered looking at how Level Up does supplies as well? I think it's close to what you're going for, but a...

It really depends on how you're playing, IMO. If you just take the core SRDs for your system of choice and some pen and paper, the only thing you'll probably need are the dice, which can be pretty cheap. But if you want to get the special edition boxed sets of your system, deluxe referee...

I did add the caveat that the AI needs to be trained ethically, mind you. So in the case I'm talking about, there wouldn't be stealing. Or are you saying that people scraping Pinterest to use the images in their personal campaigns is stealing?

For me, I feel like 3-4 hours is necessary for any meaningful story progress to be made. However I know that for some people (especially those with ADHD) that can be too long, so I try to compensate by having 5-10 minute breaks every hour or so. I've had some games last 5-6 hours, especially...