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I mean, I disagree that it’s so hard to guess what the players’ immediate next goal will be. But more importantly, if one does find it difficult, the simple solution is to just ask the players, “What do you guys want to do next week?”

It depends how you’re defining a “true sandbox.” Does the existence of adventure hooks or other signposts pointing out where to go to find interesting and challenging things to do disqualify something as a “true sandbox?” If so, yeah, most players probably won’t like that. But, in my experience...

I could be mistaken, but I think it’s a Forge term. One of many they came up with for various solutions to what Ron Edwards called “the Impossible Thing Before Breakfast” - the inherently self-contradictory notion we nonetheless take for granted about RPGs, that the GM has complete control over...

I disagree. A lot of that work can be offloaded to the dice. Make a lot of robust random tables, and you don’t necessarily have to do the work of preparing a bunch of encounters, for example. You can also do rolling prep - yes, a good sandbox requires more prepared content than the players will...

Exactly! Like, I can imagine some scenarios where she might knowingly have gotten a tattoo with some significance to whatever culture made this statue. But in no such scenario can I imagine why she would feel the need to double-check that they are in fact the same symbol. Maybe the tattoo was...

Well… I guess that explains why she’s pulling her pants down, though it does raise new questions about why she has a tattoo that matches this statue…

Is that why she’s doing it? I’ve never understood what the heck was going on in that art. Or, rather, why it was going on.

I mean… they are playing a game. They’ve got to play characters that interest them. And having “a type” is in my experience very relatable. Play with any group of people long enough and you’ll start to notice they have strong preferences. Using my own group as an example, I know to expect (using...

I don’t think they’re being coy about #3. The three things the announcement actually said were new campaign, new world, new DM. New world being one of only two concrete pieces of information tells me it’s as likely to be set in Exandria as it is for Matt to be DM. Which is to say, confirmed not...

Same!

I mean, I’m technically one of those people it isn’t enough for. But, I wanted to engage with the question earnestly. If you want to keep the backwards wings, having them work sort of like insect or hummingbird wings is probably the least-wrong way to do it. It’s still wrong and I still think it...

Alright, here’s my pitch. Despite looking like bat wings, the Topaz dragon’s wings work like the wings of a bumblebee or a hummingbird. Rather than flapping up and down, they flap forwards and backwards, pivoting at the far forward and backward positions, in a “knife spreading butter on toast”...

The difference from 4th level to 5th is much more significant than 3rd to 4th or 5th to 6th. 5th level is when martial characters gain extra attack and casters gain access to 3rd level spells, so it’s a huge DPS spike on the players’ side. An adventure written for 5th level characters is going...

I think as non-XP methods of character advancement go, this seems like one of the better ones. I’m sure it could work with my usual play group, but I would much rather stick with XP. Deciding when to level up is a lot better than just hoping the DM decides to let you level up, but it’s still...

Feels like quite a gap between “a little” and “very.” I’d probably describe my level of excitement as, like, average to slightly above average.

That does make it much clearer. Yeah, I mean, if WotC is commissioning the art, and what they’re asking for is a dragon with wings that go the wrong way, then it is absolutely correct to give them what they’re asking for, and to do so to the best technical execution you can manage. I think it’s...

Are we certain that the FToD design is supposed to have backwards wings? Cause it looks to me like they are normal wings that are, in that specific piece, twisted into a weird position.

I do have a hard time picturing myself playing a warlock that doesn’t take all three pact boons now. Not for powergaming reasons, but because if I’m playing a witch and I have the option to take a special familiar, a book of shadows, and a souped-up athame, of course I’m going to take all of...

It definitely looks intentional to me. I just think it’s a terrible choice.

That wing doesn’t look like it’s actually backwards to me, it just looks like it’s being held in a weird position.