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My dragonborn do have non-prehensile tails. A player can describe an unarmed strike with their tail or whatever, but can’t use it to hold or interact with objects. My Dragonborn don’t typically have wings, but if a player wants their dragonborn character to have vestigial wings, I’m ok with...

That does sound like a really fun encounter, now that you mention it… I suppose with 15 different dragons, one of them just existing for comic relief purposes is fine. I doubt that was the intent behind this design, but death of the author and all that. EDIT: At one point I was working on...

I mean, for me, the problem isn’t that it’s impossible. I enjoy all sorts of impossible things in my fantasy media. The problem is that it’s ugly.

Your ruling seems perfectly reasonable to me. That’s probably what I would do too.

The World of Darkness metaplot also had to end eventually. It was written with the premise that that the world was going to end, in the near future. Every individual game line had its own end times prophecy, the signs for which were appearing with alarming frequency. The coming apocalypse was...

Yeah, I think there is a certain allure to the idea of a metaplot. In theory it could foster a strong shared cultural experience among fans, in much the same way as a good TV serial can, especially in the pre-streaming era. But, I think in tabletop RPGs it ends up clashing with the promise of...

Pretty much anything but ability score damage. So many numbers are derived from a character’s ability scores, so ability score drain is an enormous bookkeeping headache. And making the ability score drain temporary only makes it worse, because now you have to adjust all those derived numbers...

I pronounce it Orth, because something about when two vowels go out walking or whatever.

Case in point. Hilarious episode, not actually how infinity works.

It doesn’t, but from the perspective of the game’s creators, the idea of there being a diegetic explanation for it is appealing. I think much more appealing than the idea is from the perspective of people actually playing the game. It doesn’t make any difference to me if your campaign and my...

Not in so many worlds. But I do remember there being some hubbub about WotC confirming that, for example, Thaksis is Krynn’s version of Tiamat, not a separate character that shares a lot in common. I think the idea WotC was trying to go for there is that Krynn, Abeir, Athas, etc. are in fact...

Don’t let the internet hate train scare you off, it’s a good game. Personally my least favorite of the four, but still very much worth playing if you like the series.

Yeah, very reminiscent of Solas’ murals

I guess. It’s only the XP/level effects that have been changed, so it’s only really a nerf if your group was actually using XP. And most of the altered effects are like, advantage/disadvantage on all d20 tests for a year, or something similar. Which is far from an insignificant effect.

Notably, the 2024 rules has different effects for the cards in the deck of many things that mess with levels or XP, since a lot of groups don’t even use XP any more.

I had a similar situation in a 4e game - we used the standard rules for experience, but you only gained experience for sessions you were present for. That did not work well for 4e, because of the way you added half your level to everything, combined with how tight the numbers were. We realized...

I’ve never played in a 5e game with a level disparity between characters, but I don’t think it would be a problem at all, as long as characters are within the same tier. The difference between level 4 and level 5 is much more significant than the difference between level 5 and level 6.

The announcement video said “new story, new world, new game master.” I’m guessing if they were switching systems it would have said “new system” or “new rules” or something but it didn’t. So, I assume D&D until they say otherwise. Though whether that’s pre- or post- 2024 changes I don’t know...