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To me, when you roll initiative you step into a mini-game that should ideally be super fun. Does 5E do that? I think it does a decent job, but I wonder how many campaigns it will stay interesting for. Similarly, with slow advancement, I wonder how long that interest will stay. The edition with...

Yeah, this is the core of it. It's okay to like what you like. When I was in college, I dated a woman who was a fellow English major but also really into romance novels. So I read some. And we discussed the style, story beats, and rules of the genre (and at the time, every book that I read...

I've been exploring a number of different games recently that are sort of D&D adjacent. I'm playing in a 5E game using the 2014 rules right now and even though it's fun (great DM) I'm just thinking about so many other options. Recent games I've explored are: Tresspassers, Mythcraft, and...

A lot of things have changed since Hasbro took distribution back. I go to Target all the time with my daughter and they still have some of the starter boxed sets in the toy section. They used to carry the PHB and so on, but I haven't see it there and never saw the new books. I looked at their...

I looked at Amazon for the top-selling Kindle books in the Fantasy genre, and I can see what the "rom-fantasy" folks are talking about. The top 20 books, full of "New York Times Bestseller!" and "Upcoming Film!" are pretty much all in that genre, and looking at them, I didn't see anything I...

So I've been thinking about this thread quite a bit because I have an eight-year-old. I remember at eight I won a copy of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe for reading so many books. I'm looking at getting the series on Audible to listen to with my daughter since that's how she prefers to get...

Just a thought: make sure you run whatever rules you're using by your players, and make sure you have clearly defined ways to clear the injuries, something that 5E does not have by default. For what it's worth, unless the game would be changed to have much fewer combats, this would be something...

For new GMs, of course the best way to do things is to read or watch about them and learn over time. However, in my experience, if the best way to do something takes a lot of time and work (even if that work is fun), an immediate solution to the situation is going to win almost all of the time...

This would be a complete house ruling, but I'd let the caster make a check with their spellcasting skill. I'd just make it a 15 to start with. Success? Works as they want. Failure? The swallowed character takes some damage from being bumped around and is still swallowed.

I think you may have misunderstood what I was saying, and don't regularly deal with the media that's written for eight year-olds. The adventure was fine, and if I had to run it I could turn it into something really good. It wasn't at the level I would expect a fully fleshed-out product for...

I'm not sure if I have posted about this in the past, but I can give a real world example. I was thinking about using AI for adventures, and I tried out something at work (with permission; my boss is curious but not judgmental). I said my rules system was 5E D&D. I then said my world had...

Yes. I'm really interested in AI, and my State has a conference that talks about it annually. I've gone to it for the last three years, and we get access to some next gen stuff as a result. It has gotten much better in the last three years. So I was recently looking for a script to automate a...

We're in a transition period, with AI taking the stage more and more often. The thing is, it's coming, and in certain areas, it's already here. There's nothing that can be done about it. If you're giving a talk about the future of your investors, especially with a growing part of your business...

Or perhaps there's more than one theme to the stories. And you can discuss more than one aspect of the stories at once. To my mind, a lot is going on in the stories, some of which is still being discussed today. I think about the "civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they...

Oh I think there will always be a frontier somewhere. But if not, we have Conan's experiences with civilization, where it's soft and corrupt, too. I think that may remain an issue as well. And ... the pulps progressed into noir, didn't they?

Oh sure. I just look at that group and see a movie made by James Gunn. And as much as I like his films, I don't think they work for Ravenloft. And as you say, Ravenloft is changing, and those changes, in general, make it much less interesting to me. Pretty much something I've no interest in.

I'm glad to answer that, being a fan of Ravenloft and Gothic literature. It's because Gothic literature is about the world of the ordered and ordinary being terrorized by the inhuman and bizarre. This story is full of alien characters who each one on their own could have a book talking about who...

I was just watching something very political (which I won't go into here) but the author took a big aside to talk about the book and movie Shane. This is one of the movies that gets referenced very often over time, it even made it into Logan. The idea is that there is a need for a character...

As the dad of an 8 year-old, there's tons of content out there that's she's enjoying. It's just not comic books like I grew up with. I think that was right when I started reading comic books and I still check out stores in my area every now and then. It's definitely not targeted at young kids...

I actually understand this perfectly. I have the policy of not yucking another person's yum but also not yumming their yuck. You do you. The politics of an author are a real thing that affects whether people are interested in them or not. And that's 100% fine. For me, it largely doesn't (with...