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Very much this. Technology can worsen the quality of life and still win out. Agriculturalists lived shorter lives, were smaller, and suffered from more diseases than hunter-gatherers. Agriculturalists had one big advantage, they could feed many more people in a certain area. And numbers win...

The Twin Cataclysms in narrative terms are a placeholder for nuclear war, making modern Greyhawk a long-past-apocalyptic setting. Considering how hot the themes of nuclear war were in the 70s it might have seen natural for Gary & Co to play on this theme. Because it was so log ago, the details...

I've not followed the discussion past the first page, but I remember an option from 2014 to increase the time resting takes and make resting more rare. Something like this: a short rest requires what a long rest does now, and a long rest is only possible in a safe place and takes a week of...

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Agree that this is baffling, I wonder if this was an editorial mistake? But there were already things off about the Twin Cataclysms. The Suel supposedly used the power of Tarizdun to smite the Bakluni, while the Bakluni retaliated with less evil elemental fire. The Baklun lands are now a barren...

The social conventions of the future are very hard to predict. Today we are used to being anonymous in certain respects. I am not at all sure the people of the future will mind sharing their data. I swear at Facebook for showing me posts irrelevant to me because it seems to think I live in the...

I am in a group with 2 artists. Guess who are working with AI? One of them. Doing both text and images. A relevant point is that he suffered a stroke a few years back, so drawing has become harder. We see Ai as a tool. Like any tool, it takes skill to use. Yes, it is fast and has a high degree...

I agree on the saving throw issue. High level critters also have high AC that might be hard to defeat using only stat mod. Also, your players must not be using buffs much, as those are the main source of complexity in my games.

I am currently playing a campaign in D&D 2014 and I've read up on 2024, but I am not going to change over, instead going for Blades in the Dark. I do think 2024 is an improvement, but my problem is with D&D above level 10. 2014 worked well up to level 10. Yes, the Bladesinger wizard was...

Dragonbane was originally inspired by Basic Role Playing (the root system of Rune Quest) and like all those games luck is a big factor, much larger than in D&D. This is not conducive to long campaigns, a few unlucky rolls can easily end a character and many unlucky rolls can end a campaign...

I find the Trillorans to be Hollywood vikings, who have a connection to Nordic vikings, so if I was inclined to be offended over this, I could be. I am not, and I consider the inclination to be insulted over such things not conductive to fun gaming. There is a point in published material trying...

On European climate and the Guld Stream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Europe#Gulf_Stream

I'm Swedish with German and Baltic ancestry, and I in no way take offense over the idea that Trillorans are of Suel descent. My view on the Suel are that they are Hollywood villains. As such they can be Romans, Vikings, Arabs, almost whatever as long as they were villains in a Hollywood film...

About latitude in the American north-east and European north-west. Because of how ocean currents work (more so in the Atlantic, but the same exists in the Pacific) Europe is much warmer than corresponding latitudes in America. Its simply not comparable. So it makes perfect sense for lands in...

Enstad is the capital of Celene.

I was going to post, but the OP choose the spot I would pick too. :) Perhaps the Yeomanry is even safer. I wouldn't call Enstad safe - those court intrigues can be vicious! Also elves in my game are fairly racist, but that is just in my game. The City of Greyhawk is safe, it has plot armor, But...

Gong back to the OP, I am currently infatuated with Blades in the Dark. It eliminates planning and picking equipment in advance. I love it so far and am currently trying to hammer it into resembling DnD enough to run it in Greyhawk. Here is my rules, mainly new playbooks, new crew playbooks, and...

What part of it do you think is a typo? I have a touch of dyslexia and might miss something obvious. Its not written to be a joke. Edit: Seems I did make a hilarious typo here - now corrected. Doing became dong - which was not good considering the subject. :D

I played quite a lot of 1st edition Pendragon, and what we did after playing around different ways was to award glory based on your value in the trait you let direct your action. So the player always decided, no die rolls, but you get more Glory by playing out a high personality score. You also...