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I'm thoroughly sick of most demihumans, but I'll always have a soft spot for insect people. I just think they're neat! Mountainous termite mounds is also an evocative image. Are they wreathed in mist? What do the people eat?

My apologies. I didn't intent that comment to be taken seriously, but I can see how it might have been a bad idea, given the risk of being lost in translation. For my part, I'd say that 5e (not D&D as such, which is a different matter) isn't so much inflexible as inert. It exerts a strong...

I think this is a really important observation. With apologies to @pemerton , I think that viewing things at too fine a scale can lead to confusing preferred technique with motivation. My own preferences probably lie more toward the 'story now' than 'OC' side of things, but I'd often rather get...

I hear yer mum's isomorphic cohort to cohort. Anyway... If we go with the tool analogy, the next question is: what are this particular tool's affordances? In plain language: what is it obviously good for, and how does that work? If I pick up a hammer, it's immediately clear to me that it's...

Hang in there people! One more week after this, and we're on to a new month. I can't speak for the rest of you, but I'm really looking forward to exploring new themes. This month will be the last of my dreary underworld levels, and I'll finally get to move on to the big weird fortress/ziggurat...

I really like this one, especially the use of colour.

I'm going to start calling the new one 2dungeons2dragons.

Unacceptable. I demand that your poll explicitly represent my idiosyncratic beliefs.

I didn't mean to imply that. But, I think it's notable that licensed RPGs typically don't have any kind of support from or partnership with the licensor. Lucas or Paramount or whoever have been very happy to take money from RPG publishers and then wash their hands of the matter. Actually getting...

OK, but where's the 'maybe' option?

Counterpoint: I've never seen any ads for Edge of Empire on Disney+.

Right, so, I think we can usefully distinguish between the various rules texts for D&D ('D&D1'), actual instances of play with all their myriad variations ('D&D2'), and the idea of D&D as such ('D&D3'). The problem is: what is the relationship between these three things? To me, it's...

I don't buy it. You could say the same stuff about Runequest, or any number of games. That doesn't mean that RQ2, RQG and Mythras are all the same game. I also find these conversations frustrating. I'm trying to say 'please actually read the rules for these games, and you will see they are not...

Cool (I'm actually in a Lancer game ATM!). I guess my question is: are your players frustrated because the game is prompting their characters to address conflicts they don't want to address and/or feel forced, or because if forces them to address unexpected conflicts as such? If it's the former...

I'm not talking about money under free parking, I'm talking about changing the win conditions or whether we even move tokens on the board. There's got to be some level of change where you're not really playing Monopoly any more. Can you accept that?

Have you tried less structured (but still very 'narrative') games like maybe Sorcerer or Ironsworn?

This is turning into a bunch of tangents within tangents, so I'm going to try and clarify my position rather than argue details. On the big question: I've never played GURPS, so I have no idea. My crucial point is that, if you read the actual text, different editions of D&D are very different...

I think it does, implicitly. The PHB gives examples of situations where you might use a CHA roll, but the DMG 'running the game' section has the actual procedures. Now, I agree that the writers don't necessarily expect you to actually use those procedures, but they are presented as a core part...

Kind of? I think it depends on which edition, and whether you actually follow the rules. Hardly anybody seems to use the official social encounter rules in the 5e DMG, but if you do, it suggests a very particular kind of prep-heavy play where the DM is repeatedly referencing NPC statblocks...

It's not! But it is a very particular way of doing things.