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Hobbits are free from desires of wealth and ambition. Also, here are some greedy greedy hobbitses with the ambition to take over Frodo's home, desirous of wealth and status. 😆

I think in the end it depends on whether you consider "hobbits are free of the things that the ring preys on, that is its power of corruption" a trait of hobbits that makes them not as easily corruptible because, yeah, that's how the corrupting effects work. So... we might just be nitpicking...

Yeah iirc they had an effect, but they didn't work as Sauron wanted- they didn't become servants, they just became extra negative-dwarfy-traits of seclusion and greed.

Wrapping up playing The King is Watching (still playing it a bit though, it has a good loop). Just started the rpg SKALD: Against the Black Priory- I prefer Real Time With Pause games over turn-based, but SKALD is pretty dope so far. Mythos-inspired, pretty dark, but still adventurey.

I have to imagine that this isn't because of the players- it's because the GMs and game designers feel like there should be a difference. In my setting I run elves as quite "alien" to typical attitudes and expectations, there's a gap in understanding between elves and other folk- they're...

Not every table has a PC present and active if the player isn't able to attend that session; in fact, this hasn't been a thing in any game I've played except for very early-days, in 2e. I leave that option up to the player- and if they want to, they can ask another player to control said...

I do similar- I wonder if part of that's age, or (gaming) maturity, or shifting priorities.. or what. With certain games like West Marches, sure, each character tracks XP. But in a "standard" campaign where it's the same players and (mostly) PCs, you still get XP even if you missed a session-...

We played the heck of out 3e, 3.5, and PF1e. I can probably recall which gaming store, at least, we were frequenting at the time... I consider 3e the first edition of "modern" DnD. I think Matt Colville said that we're in a post-3e era, something like that- after all, 3e is what set the ability...

This is (like so many things) going to be really table-dependent, but I'm really glad it works for some groups. Do you leave it entirely up to the players to manage how they'll decide? For example let's say you have three players: one player really wants to level as fast as possible, one...

Ah, here ya go, I'll screengrab it. But as someone else said, it's Burning Wheel and how they reinforce the narrative concepts of ancestries through mechanics. Spoilering in case you don't want to see the username or somesuch :)

I think this post might've been largely missed- it's a good example of how a TTRPG could handle it differently than DnD:

I constantly deal with DnD feeling increasingly mechanical, and less fantastical. Things become more predictable, players focus on their character features more and are less interested in complex magic items, or unfamiliar new items, because they can't be predictably factored into their pre-made...

My favorite gem dragon designs are MCDM's. I can respect someone thinking this is a good idea, but I do not personally care for it because it seems weird in a lazy way. Uninspired. I don't know a nice way of putting it ☹️

Best I can find is your post here Missing and damaged items. on Adventures On the Purple Planet...and Beyond!

Oh yeah, we're in The Spire of Long Shadows now- probably playing on average 2 4-hr sessions/week. There were a couple medium-length sidequests in-between some parts, largely due to the players wanting specific items and the answer to that being "go quest for it." I can see why the campaign is...

I had looked up a bunch of pics after I realized that he's Tenser if you're running Greyhawk. His setting-neutral archmage identity Manzorian, then "if your game is set in Greyhawk, he's Tenser." Pretty cool stuff.

which piece are you referring to, re: return of the eight?

What platform were you looking at using? VTT or just voice? My schedule probably won't work out but I'm curious.

Yup. I largely agree, but because of my mode of play nowadays (largely online with half a dozen different games and with new players occasionally coming along bringing their own assumptions), I feel the need to bend with the trends rather than isolate my table from them. Which isn't a very...