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Fair enough. I stand by my opinion - there is absolutely nothing wrong with being inclusive of others in pop culture. And D&D is pop culture. I have just recently seen that by making a minor tweak in how I present my game ("be respectful of others' sexuality" and all that) has changed how...

Well, if wanting to see the whole of humanity recognized in the things I love is a "problem", well, I don't want to be right. No, I'm suggesting that if you don't ever mention the presence of a people even existing in your game, you're excluding that group of people. I think wotc has made a...

This is sort of where I'm seeing things, too. There's been an upswing in people getting into D&D right now. For example, the transgender person I mentioned earlier was a pathfinder player who is switching to 5e. The gay player is completely new to RPGs, but has board game experience. And a...

Oh, of course. But forums and real life are entirely different things, obviously. In the real world, if you tell people showing up that they should maintain proper respect, most normal people will. And, personally, by making sure that your product doesn't exclude a whole class of people...

Again, disagree. There are plenty of TV shows, novels, video games, and even other RPGs where it's just casually mentioned that a character is gay, and left at that. It's not like it's in a stat block, but there are plenty of places where it can show up - after all, in out of the abyss, for...

Sure. But I slightly disagree. Women used to not make up a large portion of D&D players - and we can partly blame the rules text and the art for that. Now, while the game is still male dominated, those numbers are changing. And we can see the same thing in many other industries - by trying...

Sure. But by acknowledging that the issue exists, does that suggest that the game table (which IS a real world location, after all) is more open to LGBTQ characters? Because, from my limited sample size, it seems that by simply staying "hey, be respectful of people's sexuality" can entice...

First - guh. Enough with these polls! What's the deal with Lemon Curry? Blech! Second - why not both favoured soul and storm sorcerer? I could see both getting play. And I wouldn't be surprised to see something like the 4e swordmage show up.

One of my favourite things in 5e is the section on PC gender. I won't repeat the entire quote, because I don't have a PHB on me, but it amounts to "you can be male, female, transgender... and your sexuality doesn't matter. It's good. Be who you want to be". This is an awesome thing, and I...

Holy crap. Did you guys just get Gary to max level? Kudos is needed - well done. Never woulda thought this thread would last so long. I'm impressed you guys kept at it like that. Here, have some XP. Y'all deserved it. :)

Yeah, that's a fair point. We ran Rise of the Runelords until a few months ago, and the endgame was pretty brutal. By 13th level, I was grinding my teeth, and wound up just skipping most of the modules, bumping the PCs to 17th level, and running the last few encounters. The final fight took...

It's something I really try to limit as the GM... and ask my players to mostly avoid. I have, however, hit PCs with spells like sleep or other such spells... even though sleep doesn't even have a save anymore! The reason is, my group works hard to get people back into the fight, and turns...

You know, PotA is pretty damn cool. I think I personally prefer OotA, but neither is at all a bad choice. There's a lot of great advice floating around the boards here, and I recommend you read up... and have a lot of fun! Introducing the game to newbies is a good thing. For what it's...

This. IN 5e, it seems like addiction would fall under the same format as madness, which basically gives a PC an additional flaw to work out. The great thing about this system is that for players that want to have this take a major effect, they can do so - and get rewarded for it in play based...

Primeval Thule seems pretty cool - kinda want to get my hands on it, and see if I can mix it into my already fairly sword and sorcery-inspired 5e game. I wonder how well it'd mesh with some of the old-school D&D stuff, such as "Dwellers of the Forbidden City", "Hidden Shrine of Tamoanchan", and...

See, I'd rather players tell me very vaguely what they did, and then as things show up in game, tying those events to their backstory in retrospect. You tell me you're a soldier in game. Later on, when a unit is stationed in town... you ask if it's the one you were originally serving with...

I've played both. And the answer is, without a doubt, 5e. Allow me to explain: 1. Pathfinder is a game with a lot of rules. They cover EVERYTHING. 5e is a game that has much fewer rules, much like 2e did, and it expects the GM to be making things up. 8 year olds are going to be doing that...

Hey, I do what I can. ;) But it's true. Honestly, when you consider that the range between 20th and 1st in 5e is something like a +4 difference (plus ability mods), you realize that there's probably a huge disparity of "talent" amongst peoples with the exact same stat modifier. An apprentice...

I think this is where I disconnect from what you're saying. So, when I run a game, I have a simple rule - don't give me a big backstory! Big backstories tell the GM what type of game you want him to run for you. And I don't jive with that. The GM is going to run a game, and you're a...

Personally, I'd like to see stats for various real-world human analogies. Not even "Stats", per se, but just write-ups on Celts, Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, etc. And I don't necessarily mean "mythology", which seems to be about as far as most books take things. I want names...