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Now, I like this. I think I'm going to borrow it. I've been mulling the idea of a campaign where druids are the bad guys and their goal is to 'restore balance' ie let nature run wild. It starts small - villages being beset upon by wild forest animals who no longer fear humans (I live near...

I spend a lot of time looking through StartPlaying, which I would imagine would be the biggest competition for this. I'd say each game runs roughly $10-20/session - the one that blows my mind is an Exandria game, that shows 6/7 seats paid for for $40/session. That's about the top end I've...

Thank you for your work. I wanted to take a minute to say I always enjoy the time I spend reading your pieces.

I'd say the reason to put out books covering that era specifically, as opposed to post-WotC buyout, has more to do with the fact people who were there, boots on the ground, are sadly more and more being put INTO the ground due to old age. I'm 49. I run into gamers that don't know what a Real...

Mechanical changes got convoluted and haphazard? Not to system-war, but I can tell you've never played Rifts, where each successive splatbook was enormously overpowered. Each splatbook was more powerful than the last to the point, it was essentially impossible to play a baseline main book PC...

No sense of comradery? Did you miss the part in the EUROPA quote where Gygax specifically called for women to be excluded from gaming?

I wish Gary was still alive and on the boards so we could track how his attitude may have changed or not over the decades. For me, as a white cis hetero male, over the years I've learned to try to seperate work I enjoy from artists I do NOT enjoy. It's not always easy. I feel it's correct to...

Half the navy fleet mutinied. (Traveller, way post-Fall of Tinath)

I would argue that each and every one of those points also applies to every comic book, even over the course of a four year run. Or over the course of their many runs. Who's faster: Flash or Superman? It depends on what the writer wants. There are very few constants in superhero fiction, two...

To me, that makes sense if the warforged design premise is/was to be the weapons and soldiers of war, so that 'sentient' creatures don't have to undergo the trauma. Ceasing to function after a few years seems a military-industrial complex issue. If our current weapons are always designed to...

If you don't like warforged as an immortal race, you could always imitate the documentary Blade Runner and their replicants and have an 'expiration date'

If I had to guess, I'd say there's every likelihood that they could've went to Faerun before they ever made it home, IF they ever made it home. The D&D cartoon show is essentially a deadlier version of Jumanji, I think. And as far as them disagreeing about Hank being the leader, I know that...

Friendly fire: make a PC.

I don't play a lot of gish, but in games of many genre, I tend to play support characters. For me, I want to have a character who's not the best at Everything, but I want to be versatile. I wouldn't be a fighter/mage because of some Sick Build, but usually because there's some story behind it...

I credit her with my love of lifepath systems for character creation. The first AD&D campaign I joined outside of my home as a teen required the use of her Central Casting: Heroes of Legend. It introduced me to deeper ideas for stories, or even helped create a personality. My character was...

I use the Beyond20 extension, and it syncs up everything between D&D Beyond and Roll20 with all the features to roll on your character sheet and have it sent to the tabletop, including being able to send spell statblocks. Also easily rolls with advantage and disadvantage. Just a suggestion. I...

Not to derail this discussion, but my understanding was that the original alignment was more like Moorcock - it was more important to be aligned to the causes of Law or Chaos than it was to worry about the morality behind it - essentially Lawful Good people were absolutely on the 'same team' as...

Maybe that's the secret - Make an Eberron/Waterdeep cop show.

I don't know if it's 'meta', but since some people like to lay Real World over games sometimes, there are sometimes as people where we might feel we've learned enough that we can handle extra work duties, or handle training others. Sometimes it even manifests as a need or calling to just DROP...

I like the 1e paladin restrictions on magic items for encumbrance: The character may never retain more than ten magic items: 1 suit of armour; 1 shield; 4 weapons; 4 others.