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For me a system is broken when some character options are vastly more effective then others, thereby leading or tempting players to build to optimize, rather that build for roleplaying and character concept. I have a couple of players in my group that enjoy optimizing Pf1e-style, but when at my...

Bad murderhobos, secret doors undiscovered.

And that the boundaries for discussion of the subject is up for discussion is a good thing. Still, the general framing of what opinions one are allowed to utter or not on a lot of subjects is pretty clear. And as I wrote, even if I personally may have different opinions, I have no problem with...

A question was asked. I gave my broader personal view on the subject, but explicitly said that I respect that this is a private forum where I am a guest. So I don't know what I did to deserve such a bad-faith interpreted answer with implications that I treat my fellow gamers bad? As to your...

My personal stance is that banning art and cultural phenomena, or the public discussion about them, makes for a very scary world that mirror authoritarian and anti-intellectual dystopias. But I will of course respect the moderators decisions, since this is a private forum where I am a guest.

I confess that religion and gods usually are little more than framing for roleplaying and divine magic Duracells in my campaigns, even if I have fun developing church practices etc as GM. But I have a fondness for Dragonlance style divine avatars that walk the material plane, like...

My Savage Pathfinder game runs itself with minimal prep. So I've been doing some close reading of Pathfinder 2e, and lo and behold, behind the massive page count and scary technical language there is a game that may be both playable, fun, and pretty easy to GM. I'm actually thinking about doing...

Despite having spent a few years as a touring rock musician in my youth, nowadays I mostly listen to 50s/60s jazz and classical baroque. I'm old I guess.

Many high-level, high fantasy threats are kind of comparable to nukes, at least in my campaigns. In my latest, 2-year home-brew starting out in Forgotten Realms I had quite a bit of space jamming around lvl 10-16. One of the major archs for that level span was baddies using techno-magic to throw...

One of the reasons I and my table has moved to Savaged Pathfinder for fantasy is that uncertainty and swingyness is fun. When one has played 5e for a couple of years combat just get tedious with very predictable tactics and outcomes.

My first encounter with Paizo APs is now with the Savage Pathfinder versions of RotRL and CotCT. I don't know about the d20 originals, but the Savaged conversions is the first commercial campaigns I've seen that actually is playable right out of the box without massive GM work. I'm running Rise...

Hail Mary is comfort food for scifi readers, and a really good tribute to the golden age authors style of book. I especially enjoy that it emulate the optimistic and slightly didactic tone from that era. Good stuff!

Now I've stared at the empty reply box for 10 minutes, but I still can't find words to describe how Episode 3 hit me and my wife. As others have said, just give everyone involved all the prizes.

Aragon is pretty ok, what is really disturbing is the hobbits looking like extremely cynical and life-weary captains in a 70ies police show.

Despite 5e Spelljammer being utter garbage I might have bought Planescape just because it's Planescape. With the current situation, I won't buy anything from WotC. I have my GMing planned with non-D&D stuff for the next 4-5 years so there's no loss really, more than that I would have liked a...

I never played the game, and yes, perhaps a bit bland:ish, but so far Pascal and whatshername actress from GoT has saved it. The bland feeling is probably because zombie overdose, we'll see where the show goes.

Not WotC, but the last prewritten D&D adventure I used was Descend into the depths of the Earth sometime in the early eighties. Been home brewing since.

Not a cent.

The important thing is that they pay for the casting as a money sink. Up until lvl 10ish when money doesn’t matter, then I just handwave it.

As others have written, the fact that the RPG=D&D frame already is broken and lots and lots of players are reaching out and investigating other games is a major win in itself. Even if many stay with D&D in the end, they will still know that there are options, for fantasy and for a multitude of...