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Well, two options is already more than the one you seemed to think usually exists. It literally gets us from having no choice to having a choice. And of course there are other options, such as tricking the necromancer by giving her a counterfeit, thus fooling her long enough that she divulges...

It is not complicated, and I already provided some regrading that dwarf and goblin thing. Issues of morals are the best ones, IMO. A necromancer promises to reveal who killed a brother of one of the characters if we give a powerful artefact to her. Do we trust her? If we do, is it worth to...

So as long as you don't want to do insane or plainly stupid stuff, there is no agency in your games. OK, then, but I am not sure this is something you should be proud off. No, because complex problems do not have one obvious solution. That definitely is not a situation that requires any sort...

It is not terribly good. Not a great loss. I also found it hilarious that they wrote it "Stargåte," so I always insisted pronouncing it like it was a proper Swedish word. I think the original movie was OK though.

They obviously have societey and seem to have free will too, although they are probably more suspectible to manipulation by "dark powers" than most people. BUt it is not like humans or even maiar are immune to that. Sorry this just does not work, they are people with names, a society, culture...

I don't necessarily find it problematic if a sprit-being's appearance changes to reflect their nature. Or it might even change to reflect the expectations of the people looking at it. Humans expect "demons" to look in certain way, so that's the appearance a malevolent spirit adopts either...

Again, it doesn't matter. You're constantly Thermian explaining this. Like how you don't get it? Saying that people seeming people are not people does not make it OK! In a war it is mostly self defence and defence of others. And I don't expect standards of modern Geneva conventions from...

Orcs have always been people. Tolkien's orcs are people (rather nasty people, but still,*) Warhammer orks are people. And I'm fine with orcs in LotR being slaughtered, as it happens in context of battles where the orcs are the obvious aggressors, and in the larger context of a war. But if I...

But they are people. Saying that people are not people has very ugly history. Making a fantasy where it is "true" is disturbing.

@soviet Good definitions, well done! (y)

Not a fan of this. It stereotypes these cultures and it is weird that every single member of the culture would share these traits. If you tried to do with this real world cultures it would become offensive really fast. Then again, it is an abstraction for an elf game, so maybe it is fine... 🤷

Here's the thing. Having a world where people are treated like smallpox is messed up. You can come up with any fantasy justification for it, but if it is rational and good to round up orcs in concentration camps and send them to gas chambers, that is not a world I want to be playing in.

Yes, but given that you probably do not run the same scenario for thousand tables, thus we do not have this information, it is moot. No I didn't. So it is true that sometimes the situation the GM present is such, that the GM can with high accuracy predict what the players will do. And some...

No, the biology affects the culture great deal, it is just than on Earth all us modern humans have basically the same biology, so obviously we do not see that between us humans. But orcas have pretty different cultures than humans!* You seem to think fantasy species just as different...

I think there should be elven cultures and halfling cultures. But if the non-humans and humans always share a culture, what's the point of having non-humans?

Thank you for this post and I am glad that you wrote it.

It's not. Daggerheart or Candela Obscura are not the main product of Critical Role, they're just side business, part of the merchandise. The streaming shows are the main product. It is like complaining that they sometimes use socks other than their branded Critical Role merchandise socks.

Fair enough. Let's focus on what was said in this thread. Is it fair to say that some people feel that they need clearly telegraphed enemies that can be slaughtered without second though, like the Doomguy gunning down demons? Because, whilst there certainly can be situations where the enemies...

What was unfair about it? It was literally said in the railroad thread, and here you said people "want to be able to just punch people in the face without worrying about it so much in their entertainment game." Your words, not mine. I was just a bit taken a back by similar sentiment expressed in...

Yes, pixel hunting. It is the literal worst way to run a game.