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As an MMO player (hopefully recovering MMO player) I don't see it that way. I'm seeing the current situation as being similar to what happened last year with World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV. When WoW had it's fiascos a LOT of YouTubers and players both switched to FFXIV. Yes, most of...

The people I know who have played both tell me the exact opposite. Then again I'm playing online through VTTs. But even without them - the actual math in play seems shockingly simple in large part because it's repetitively consistent. To add to some of the stats above, we're now also being...

There's a Humble Bundle out for a few more days that gives you that plus a ton of other stuff (retail around $422) for $25. All PDFs though, not print books. BUT still extremely worth it. (I had about half the stuff already in print - so for me the value was that each PDF is normally just under...

My group is the opposite dynamic. Of course I'm on the "other side" of the OGL fiasco from when you posted the above, and maybe by the time I catch up in the thread you will have been in a different place. Especially given the note about DnD Begone. I recently joined a group that was starting...

PF2E "suffers" from being well balanced and also "suffers" from being too easy to keep viable to play all the way up the level ladder. It also "suffers" by letting any character of any class be able to fun and engaging and lastly it "suffers" from it being somewhat difficult to make a too weak...

I've been debating trying to justify 'cup of tea' and 'paint brush / ink quill' as Kensai weapons, but I've yet to figure the right ranged one. I'd love the Kensai weapon to be 'unarmed' - because all the bonuses there would be great for an unarmed fighter.

It all comes down to the actors. Replace your players with all the people that were BOTH 'cool kids' in high school AND on the Drama club... and you're done. But you might have to pay them 6-8 figures to play in your games... Otherwise... you're never going to really get this one - make a game...

On feeling guilt over calling out a cheater - I don't have much to say there... once you've hit that stage you just have to deal with it and the consequences and then move on... hoping everyone can stay comfortable. As to stopping cheating before that point... Over the years I've seen this...

I suspect some publishers might very well make modules with the GM/DM in mind as the audience and ignore players on purpose... If your aim is to sell books, you need to make a potential reader interested - and you can do this by selling them a “shiny piece of junk”; great art, cool commentary...

I think the MMO genre basically disproves a lot of this. Some of your elements are just the 'next step' in MMOs. MMOs didn't end up replacing tRPGs, they did come close, but that was actually because the tRPG market was collapsing (or at least it looked that way to me), and people were 'stuck'...

Sometimes the “law” is unlawful, sometimes a society uplifts evil conduct and villifies good conduct. If you look at LG as a champion of concepts like universal equal rights, justice, honor, charitable nature, protect the weak and downtrodden, etc... - that’s your core “good”, much of it...

Hello; I am in Hayward, across the bay. How goes your search? I’m thinking on whether or not that distance would be viable.

You can go down this route and start knocking off the classes that are not critical. And once you do you can then start wondering why have classes at all. Plenty of RPGs get by without them. Then you can look at the success of those RPGs versus DnD. Sure DnD has much of its success from being...

The next time you get a player like this, use Inspiration Points "AT THE START OF THINGS" before it gets to be an issue. Set up and Inspiration Point system (DMG pg. 240-241) with these variations: Inspiration Points are awarded for Inspirational Actions that are Highly Genre Inspiring. Even...

Except... it wasn't until WotC bought D&D that we had anything else? And where did they start, a class that at launch of 3e was basically the same as a Wizard, except you didn't need to memorize spells, with the exchange that you only got a limited number. And ever since then they have been...

I usually like half-orcs that were either the process of a normal family mix, or who's Orc parent was captured by humans. Then again, even before WoW and playing Horde, I looked at the DnD races and alignments and felt I'd rather look at them from a different perspective. If I were in a game...

A side effect of watching "Martin" in the 90s is I just say "Shanaynay" when I see that druid thing, whatever it is supposed to be. A side effect of playing WoW for a decade is I can't imagine playing a Druid unless I could turn into a bear and... avoid owls I guess because, that kind of kink it...

I suspect people who pick Beastmaster are most likely trying to recreate their Hunter from years of playing WoW. And the class... probably should respect that - because that's a very enjoyable playstyle for a lot of people (I was never really one of them, but it probably accounts for half of all...

Nothing ever comes out right or comes across right on the internet. Whenever you try to make a point that has emotions and conflict in it - half the people will agree with you somewhat randomly and the other half will see all the reasons you're being a jerk. Either side could be right or wrong...

Power dynamics / agency. Let us imagine for a second that I hated whites and sat in my room ranting and raving about it all day long. Let us even imagine I did it on a street corner. And lets then imagine I went out and attacked someone(s). Now... as a minority with little power in the system...