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This makes sense on paper, and yet, in my actual experience, players never seem to mind the fact that gold is useless. The “broken play loop” is mostly a theoretical problem that GMs get in our heads about, while players usually aren’t even looking at treasure that way. They’re busy using it as...

RPGs don’t have economies. There are no market forces. Supply is unlimited and demand comes exclusively from three to five people. There are no natural resources and no labor being done to turn them into products. Even time isn’t really a resource because a few minutes of game time can be...

I agree 100%, though in Viva La Dirt League’s defense, it wouldn’t make for a very funny sketch if the DM ran it this way. In general, a lot of the humor in their D&D Logic series stems from what I would call poor or at least inexperienced DMing technique. I still find them very relatable...

IMO, D&D is just not a good system for a Magic the Gathering RPG. I would love an RPG that was actually built around Magic’s lore and metaphysics, but D&D ain’t it. Spells aren’t categorized in a way that fits thematically with Magic’s color system, and while a Vancian-style fire-and-forget...

I really just don’t want any more crossovers, in basically any IPs, but especially WotC’s. I’m so fatigued with every single pop culture property sacrificing its identity at the altar of cross-promotion. Everything is so homogeneous now it’s disgusting.

I’m guessing there must be an autocorrect error in here somewhere because as-written I can’t make sense of it. Maybe “searchable” was meant to be “sea change”?

It’s lovely, but I must say, it’s weird to see a Lorwyn elf being so friendly with what looks to be a boggart (Lorwyn goblin), a Changeling, and either a Duergar (Shadowmoor dwarf) or a Kithkin (Lorwyn halfling). In Magic lore, Lorwyn’s elves are fascistically obsessed with aesthetics and...

I don’t think that’s a Charisma check. That’s like… Gudidance, or Divine Intervention or something.

It doesn’t help that spell descriptions in 5e have a ton of low-information text in them. I know 4e spell/power cards are unpopular around these parts, but they never had this problem. You didn’t have to read through a block of fluffy text to find the one piece of information you were looking...

i also, personally, don’t like that the ignore feature hides posts and leaves conversations lacking context. I prefer to ignore people the old-fashioned way by just… not talking to them.

I’m philosophically not keen on players actively wanting to make rolls. Rolls mean a chance of failure, which should be an acceptable compromise to the alternatives of automatic success or automatic failure, rather than a desirable thing in and of themselves. But, my cloud-yelling-at aside, I’m...

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There are two red ones and two green ones, one of which is directly adjoined to one of the red ones. Which now that you mention it is incredibly colorblind-unfriendly visual design.

One of the most talked-about problems facing D&D is a DM shortage. I would think the benefit of training a new generation of players to expect to take turns DMing as the default mode of play rather than to designate one out of five or six as the Forever DM would be pretty obvious.

It was, however, the module provided for the 5e open playtest. Seems like a no-brainer to use the module that the system was literally built to feel good playing as the introductory module for the system.

To be honest, from this description it sounds like your players just didn’t read their copies ahead of time, counting on you to be able to teach them without them having to do homework first, and you didn’t read it either, counting on them to do their homework, so no one was properly prepared...

“A caster's spell save DC and spell attack modifier” isn’t actually the spell DC…? How do you figure?

Temporary tremorsense doesn’t feel dwarfy? I dunno, I can imagine a dwarf striking the ground with a pickaxe and feeling the reverberation to figure out what’s on the other side of the door, or taking their boots off to feel the ground directly with their feet and being able to detect that there...

Huh… weird, I could have sworn it was capitalized… Nevermind, I guess 😅

Crawling just makes you move at half speed, so even then you don’t actually gain any extra movement by doing this.