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If anyone needs to see what it looks like when a party refuses to run despite overwhelming odds, they should look no further. To me it read as an encounter with clear secondary goals that happened to be during a fight...and so, of course, the players decided to ignore the secondary goals and...

I'm curious so thought I'd start two threads, one for D&D and one for all other games. This thread is for D&D. Edition doesn't matter. The rules are simple. It needs to be 1) a live game, played in real time (sorry PBP gamers); 2) it needs to involve other people (sorry solo gamers), and; 3)...

I'm curious so thought I'd start two threads, one for D&D and one for all other games. This thread is for anything except D&D. The rules are simple. It needs to be 1) a live game, played in real time (sorry PBP gamers); 2) it needs to involve other people (sorry solo gamers), and; 3) it needs...

LOL. Watching CR. I can feel players around the world exploding in rage at the PCs facing the consequences of their actions.

Exactly. Unless people are actually playing the games, they're nothing more than expensive decorations collecting dust. If money is the most important factor, then the second most important factor is how many people are actually playing those games. At a guess, the actual player base of the...

I look at it more from a broadly healthy perspective. That WotC and 5E 3PP are making money is great for them, but 5E is effectively strangling the life out of the rest of the hobby / industry, so it's not a particularly healthy time for the whole despite a few making money. In other words, it's...

I get the feeling that some people will always complain if PCs have to face the logical consequences of their actions. There’s no point arguing about it endlessly. For some the point of RPGs is to have a power fantasy in a consequence-free space. After watching the scene 4-5 times now, it’s...

If you pick this one up and dig it, there's also another game that uses the same system called Lair of the Leopard Empresses. It's billed as a "superheroic sword & sorcery" RPG and it's by Sarah Newton of Mindjammer Press. There are some changes and updates to the mechanics. I'm not well-versed...

Too bad you won't be there for a sumo tournament. Catching one of those live and in person is definitely on my bucket list.

Yep. Happens every time.

I’m not sure empathy is the right word either. But I know what you’re getting at. Check out Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. You have to fulfill your basic needs before you worry about “higher needs” and the basic needs of others. If you have to tighten your belt a little to help a neighbor, you...

Yeah. And some of those points of light might sell you out for just the right price. That would be some tasty RP.

Here’s a thorough explanation of the meme.

Sometimes people talk about different eras in RPGs as "Golden Ages" for the hobby. In some ways, the birth of the hobby was a Golden Age as immediately after the release of OD&D dozens of other games were released and the hobby blossomed. Another Golden Age could be the Satanic Panic as it...

Unrelated. A: "Hey, you wanna play 5E with us?" B: "No thanks. It's not my thing. Have fun though." A: "How dare you betray us like this!?" B: "If you'd been that dramatic in the last game maybe there'd be a next one." A: "..."

Exactly. Then to integrate “AI” into the core of the computer...F everything about that.

There's a thread on here about the topic. Lots of varied opinions. https://www.enworld.org/threads/warhammer-frpg-2e-vs-4e.683997/

That I can agree with.

I think it comes down to empathy. It’s not as widespread as we seem to think. It seemingly ebbs and flows. Those with empathy ascend, do some good, then those without empathy ascend and tear it all down. Lather, rinse, repeat.