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I'm probably in a minority among DS fans in that I don't mind Freedom very much. There's a large part of it that's about building connections to various factions which would be useful for the DM making future adventures, and I think the finale should be seen more like a disaster movie. There's...

I have a friend who would on occasion stay at a monastery to get away from daily life.

I think the main reason people have vague memories of what the "default" was is that the books themselves were ambivalent. From the OG Dark Sun rulebook class description: Note the reference to preserving as "old and established." From the Wanderer's Guide in the general world overview...

This might skew the numbers for the future:

I remember seeing a quote by Steve Jackson, probably in the early 00s or so, saying something like "I love to see D&D grow and bring in new players. Because in a year or two some of those players are going to get bored with D&D and look for other options, and some of those players will become...

"I'm not gonna launch those ships. Captain's orders."

No no no. The goa'uld are the quori/inspired from Eberron.

One of the main characters in the Verdant Passage novel (the one where Kalak gets murderized) is Agis of Asticles, a noble who has a fairly large amount of farmland and, of course, uses slave labor to tend it. He is described as a character with a strong conscience, and makes efforts to treat...

It mostly did, because defilers had a much faster XP table than preservers (who used the normal wizard one). However, due to the way the XP tables kept doubling for most of a character's career, the effect was something like a defiler being about half a level ahead of a preserver until you hit...

Come to think of it, in retrospect it was probably a mistake to push various FR factions back in early 5e as player options for organized play, particularly the Zhentarim. They've generally been the go-to human-ish villains of the Realms in the past.

I'm not sure I'd call humanity "ascendant" in the Third Age of Middle-Earth, primarily due to machinations of Sauron and his servants. Arnor had gotten split into three different kingdoms and then eaten piecemeal by the forces of Angmar, and Gondor had steadily lost both land and power. Fourth...

Sure, I mostly meant that since 1e was published in 2017, just before Discovery came along, TNG-era is sort of the assumed default of the book with TOS and Enterprise as options. But it works fine in any era. The thing is that Star Trek is kind of distinct in its genre. If you try to play it as...

I haven't had the opportunity to play it myself, but I have the 1e rules and I've seen some actual plays (Geek & Sundry had one before they collapsed and most of that particular crew moved to AltHaven). It seems very Star Trek-y, with the primary focus being on mid-era Star Trek (TNG/DS9/VOY)...

It does require a certain amount of "black-boxing". The reactor has taken damage and needs to be repaired to work. You roll to see if you can do it, and get a result like that. Clearly, the broken part was something that was inside. Or maybe you could interpret it some other way – maybe you can...

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