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The experience of playing someone who watched humans be born, live full lives, and die of old age before you were even considered an adult. The experience of being a person with the markings of the most powerful creatures in the world, your body naturally deadly and mystical, yet with all your...

You can replicate being tubby with equipment too.

Heck Santa Claus is known as a Jolly Old Elf, and he's the poster boy for jelly bellies.

Every species has dark vision, breath weapons, innate spells, free feats, medium size, luck, poison resistance, magic resistance, tails, horns, claws, and bites?

Remove to-hit from stats. It should just be a function of level. Stats should supplement skill, not determine it.

Fiction grants us many ways to engage in things which are not true. Sometimes we want to feel the satisfaction of being able to fight that which makes us suffer and sometimes we want to feel the relief of not having to deal with that which makes us suffer for once. Either is valid.

He was hoping to make the prime material work more like the Shadowfell, with eternal twilight rather than true darkness. That which died out could be made undead, but there would still be some light so not everything would die out. All would be plunged into a "sea of shadow".

Part of publishing material is setting the tone you want to impress on your audience. The audience can take that and alter it, but it's inherent to the process. It's especially vital for people who are new to all of this, and doubly so for those who struggle with creativity, as they won't be as...

WotC should generally be stopping at acknowledging a variety of relationships and moving on. Noting that sometimes Elminster invites Drizzt over for cuddles is fine, but we don't need an adventure to find the magic shackle key that fell out the tower one night and got eaten by a passing wyvern.

Both topics are extremely complicated and prone to emotional and trauma triggering and really not worth going into detail here unless we end up with a D&D adventure that explores these (WotC please don't).

An eclipse was central to my campaign, as the big bad was the angry demigod offspring of the sun and moon deities, who not only wanted to create an eternal eclipse to rule with their undead army, but who also slammed two celestial planes together as its own "eclipse".

Incidentally, the first D&D (2E) group I ever joined, when I was in middle school, included a classmate's little sister. Another friend's mother also played. I imagine they would appreciate fewer pictures of old wizard men drooling over tiny topless ladies with dragon tails in their PHBs.

D&D was widely available by 2nd edition. I got a lot of my boxed sets at Waldenbooks in a beach town.

Depends on the kinds of cultural exposure you have, and the internet is a heck of a bridge to new ideas. In the mid-90s I did a character survey for an online RP space with about five different gender options, and I ended up giving a presentation on pronouns for linguistics class a few years...

It doesn't have to not make sense either. If one absolutely must have titillating art in books used by middle school children it can at least be done in a way that makes any kind of sense. Adventurers are often -not- doing violence, and that's a much better time to show off the man meats for the...

(Geeze that art is confusing... is he flying away from the fire dog with his giant fans?) Because most characters do not have natural armor and wandering around with their muffin tops and top muffins flopping about makes it look like they plan to seduce the zombies they run into.

Chainmail bikinis and similar fetish garb can be depicted in the same scenarios they occur in the real world - in leisure moments far away from dungeons. If the books truly need a dwarf in nothing but a metal thong and his beard, put it in a scene where there's no reason to expect a need for...

The great thing about variety is that everyone has a chance to enjoy something. It also creates the contrast that makes a given feature stand out. Even from an eye candy perspective we all have different tastes and they can go in some very different dielrections.

Intelligence tends to be replaced by metagaming.

This feels like a defensive response for something that doesn't need to be a conflict. There's nothing wrong with or lesser about not being an improvisational DM, it's just a different focus. No need to make a tribalistic thing out of it. I'm very much an extremely improvisational DM, do not...