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Personally, I prefer my Illithids as alien terraformers. Their physiology is not natively suited to survival in the prime material plane, having evolved in and adapted to the environment of the far realm. The tadpole is the actual creature, and the fully cerromorphed mind flayer is its...

I’d say that’s an accurate assessment, yes.

Well, yes, that is accurate. I was using the terms “afford” and “risk” in the euphemistic way they are often used in the business world, not this more grounded and honest way.

It doesn’t have to be a matter of them drawing a line; it might just be that slavery, in the way that we tend to think of it today, isn’t practical in that world. The kind of mass industrialized chattel slavery seen in the pre-civil war US was not what slavery has looked like at pretty much any...

There are also just different concerns for a large business than a small business. It may be a bit strange to think of a band or other performance art group as a business, but in the world we live in, they do have to be. Smaller businesses are dealing with smaller amounts of money, which means...

As others have pointed out though, this probably won’t solely be on Bennan’s shoulders. There’s a whole team of folks who will likely be working behind the scenes to help him develop and manage stuff if need be. Also, as you said, the nature of Weatmarches kinda makes leaning on improvisation...

Well, the video made it sound like it won’t be three groups with three completely different, consistent casts. Rather, the players will be able to jump around between the different groups as interest and availability allow. The groups are more like “home rooms” in a lot of schools (or maybe...

Lol, no. If anything WotC did spurred them to create Daggerheart, it was the OGL debacle. But, also, they’re a group of professional, entrepreneurial adults with an enormous platform in the gaming space. They didn’t need WotC’s help figuring out that making their own system would be a good idea...

Perhaps surprisingly given my pretty hardline stance against always-evil species, this is great news IMO.

I’d add that, whether or not one is personally influenced by this dark path existing, others playing the game might be made uncomfortable by its existence and be less inclined to want to keep playing. Which brings me back to the OP’s predicament. If this was just a group of friends playing at...

The “zombies” don’t have to be literal zombies. The point of the suggestion is that they’re creatures with no independent thought or will, let alone social structures or culture to speak of. One can easily imagine fantastical creatures vulnerable to any and all of the tactics you describe that...

If it exists, someone will be into it.

True heroes!

Westmarches? Oh, hell yeah! I hope this helps get more CR fans interested to try more open-table style play.

That isn’t what the article you linked says at all. It says genetics plays a role in a lot of human traits, and probably more of one than we think, which is an extremely nonspecific claim. The only specific claims it makes is that addiction is heritable (and the degree of heritability varies by...

Dual-type is definitely my preferred approach!

It is with that attitude!

If this community is any indication of how the broader D&D community feels, then it’s a pretty stark divide. The subject of evil orcs may as well substitute for Goodwin’s Law here. The discussion In this thread has so far been very cordial, but people have very strong opinions on this matter in...

Right, and like I said, it was a valuable discussion to have.

I think the ideas developed on the Forge were a mixed bag. Taking this notion of the impossible thing before breakfast for example, I think you’re correct that, for many modes of play, the very premise that the GM is in complete control of the story is erroneous. However, there are other modes...