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Yeah, I don’t think most people get what I’m going for esp. with the thoughts DnD can’t do this. My players tend toward, ”I’ll be an elf cleric cause it seems cool, tell me what they can do“. Where I’m trying to instead draw out what they want to do, whatever they want to do or look like will...

One. But does it matter? They are tasked with creating a concept, unlimited power not a concept.

Not much for cost, but then I also rewrote rules for my game. Perm circles only go to one other circle. Any number of other perm circles can lead to yours, like 30 one destination portals could lead to waterdeep. Need permission to set up a perm target. Receiving portal can have attendant...

I’m trying to get my players to create their next characters in ignorance of class abilities. My players will be starting their 3rd characters ever, so they’re not super informed on all the available options, which is good for a start. I’m trying to get them to imagine what their character...

A good GM allows players to make decisions that matter. You don’t put a vault full of gold in a game if trying rob it is something you won’t allow. Good players won’t try to expand their agency beyond what they know their GM is ready to deal with, has prepared. A GM creates a space in which...

Assume child is brilliant, precocious, and weird like you were, but not in the same way cause it’s decades later.

Well ok, sorry. But all five of the posts before me were not positive, so I offered support, and I thanked you for sharing, and there still isn’t another Garfield Positive post in this thread.

I was merely defending Garfield against people who’ve been playing DnD since B/X casting shade on a Garfield origin story.

Garfield’s pretty awesome, if you’re 9 yrs old. But am pretty puzzled to see someone post the trailer here. That said, thanks, as a pretty ad free household might not have known to look out for this for the Garfield inclined member of the household.

For real? Thanks for the pile of straw men. Just because ancient aliens don’t exist doesn’t mean there isn’t a whole lot of uncertainty about Alexander, Viking raids or even NYC in the 70’s. I presumed the OP was a genuinely curious person studying real history, you should maybe apologize to...

I think we’ve reached the point where more and more of the audience has realized that CGI is at the point where anything and everything is possible to appear on the screen so what they are seeing is meaningless. Audiences are going to be looking for more meaningfol experience.

Hamburger Hill. The ‘nam movie. epic Battles to get up hills there is no reason to actually take, over and over, every session.

I play in the forgotten realms. A setting with a lot of cannon/baggage that the official source of hasn’t exactly been super consistent about. It doesn’t actually matter, the source material is just a pool of ideas to draw on for your game. you can take from both before and after the spell...

So, I’m going to offer a different take. Doesn’t matter. You liked the book, it was a great book, was it what historians generally regard as correct now? doesn’t matter. history is contested, there is no official or truely correct version of past events. Look at the news today, there is so...

This one always helps me feel something for people outside my own limited experience.

I like them, but I like them for everything that happens before the alien encounter when all of Snarf’s camps are still possibilities. The first half of the movie tease is the interesting part when you don’t know how this is going to go, once it’s revealed the writer decided this will be one of...

There should be no math other than adding up dice rolls. That’s the point of all the weird dice, all the complicated math already done to tell you what dice you need to roll.

Meaningful not an option? Like, serve a purpose? The most important thing about any dungeon is that it provide a reason for being there and make the adventurers motivated to explore more. I get that the question assumes that this most important thing is already provided, but in practice I...

Maybe time for a PSA that if you think your collection of anything is worth something you need to actively work to unload it during your lifetime if you hope it will yield some value to your heirs. They’ll be lucky to get 1/20th of what you think it’s worth after you’re gone.

i don’t want to carry WoTC’s bag here but so much of this boils down to, “not the way I would have done it”. JA and WoTC have vastly different design goals. He’s not wrong, but what he wants is just not what they cared about when making the book. The glowing reviews truely are stupid, but if...