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Design isn't art, neither is developing a game. Design is per definition the creative process of making something as appealing as possible to a large or small group of people with the goal of increasing their willingness to acquire the designed object. This is most often done for a commercial...

Being burned out on 5e and not enjoying the direction WotC has taken during the last few years, I would actually rather have seen a real new edition with massive changes. That I probably would have bought, but I won't get any One or other D&D stuff for the foreseeable future.

I totally agree, and that's one of the reasons Savage World / Savage Pathfinder is my goto system these days. You have magic points and you have mechanical spell effects, the trappings are all up to the players and their character concept.

I have very fond memories of The Cleric Quintet and Dragonlance Chronicles. Yes, they are UA stuff, but I still occasionally bring them as comfort reading on vacations etc.

Discord as foundation for voice, video and handouts, plus AboveVTT with DnD Beyond for D&D, and FoundryVTT for all other games.

I live in rural Sweden and my closest physical bookstores doesn't have any sci-fi or fantasy sections, so my garbage pile sorting is all done online unless I take an over-night trip to Stockholm. All literary media and forums I follow show sci-fi as a genre in constant renewal and development...

Well, yes, I was a bit polemic and of course you are right. In all genres of art and media there are golden nuggets, and I have read good fantasy. I may be more correct to say that I'm less inclined to search for the golden nuggets in fantasy, since the ratio of good versus garbage ratio is...

When it comes to genre fiction, I vastly prefer sci-fi and cyberpunk before fantasy. I mean come on folks, most fantasy books are boring, uninspired garbage. But when it comes to roleplaying, fantasy is the lowest common denominator for the players around my table, and I as the flexible...

I must be honest and admit I don't understand the whole orcs in Dragonlance discussion. For me the difference between a kitchen sink, anything goes setting and other settings is that other settings has restrictions, be it races, class, no sunlight, only low magic or whatnot. And in Dragonlance...

Not really underrated, and I am in the trad camp, but I rediscovered Savage Worlds a while ago. Savage Pathfinder does the kind of D&Dish fantasy my table like very well, while getting rid of lots of ugly d20 stuff and - a really big plus - with a much flatter power curve. And it plays great in...

I loved Dragonlance back in the days, but I won't get this one since after Spelljammer I don't trust WotC to deliver everything needed to make this or upcoming settings fully playable. I don't care if orcs or whatnot are allowed, I just don't trust the company to deliver all the core components...

Maybe the My Little Pony RPG? Just neighing around, munching grass and farting rainbows sounds pretty nice.

I'm a one-media-at-a-time geezer. If I read I read, if I listen I listen. In the OPs situation I usually use an app with shut out other sounds-sounds, like train cabin, spring woods etc. Or I put down the book and listen to music - for travel I prefer classical baroque or 50ies/60ies jazz.

If the case is PCs I would just make a lost McGuffin of Volcano Activeness that require a bunch of rare material stuff to complete a ritual. If it's for an NPC I would just make stuff up, no need to invent any spells. Imho.

I always go with that player characters don't use alignment, every other being in the world use alignment at the core, even if it seldom come up in play, and outsiders are physical manifestations of philosophical moral concepts. Basically, alignment is totally transparent for the players, but I...

I would love to have a DM, but not for 50 bucks.

My players are FR lore nerds, so why not. But in my opinion 5e core and splats are still pretty world agnostic, as it should be. Campaigns and adventures are easy to port to whatever setting you fancy. As to the D&D content development over the last years, product focus on new and younger...

For the same reason nuclear weapon scientists haven't taken over the world: because they're nerds. No but really, as in our world most mages are probably more interested in other kinds of power and prestige than ruling over a bunch of peasants. And at least in my fantasy worlds many...

Thankfully, me and my table of old grog friends play different games. I will wrap up our 2ish years 5e campaign in a couple of months, after that it's Savage Pathfinder and one of the adventure paths, after that it's WFRP4e, after that it's most probably Cthulhu and the Masks campaign - kind of...

I don't really mind current D&D being superheroics, more than that high-level play is hard to make fun and challenging. A solution to the latter would be great, but keeping D&D a magic fueled power fantasy is fine by me. Mostly because there are gazillions of lower-power fantasy games out...