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"I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people." —Lauren Morril "If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do."—Angel Some people have power fantasies of getting all the power and lording it over...

Well, that's one way of asking for a vacation.

In most of the northern hemisphere there is a system called the TIR convention which allows a shipper to put goods on a sealed truck, have it travel through a number of intermediary countries, and only pay customs/tariffs in the final destination country. As far as I can tell, the USA and Canada...

I'm probably in a minority among DS fans in that I don't mind Freedom very much. There's a large part of it that's about building connections to various factions which would be useful for the DM making future adventures, and I think the finale should be seen more like a disaster movie. There's...

I have a friend who would on occasion stay at a monastery to get away from daily life.

I think the main reason people have vague memories of what the "default" was is that the books themselves were ambivalent. From the OG Dark Sun rulebook class description: Note the reference to preserving as "old and established." From the Wanderer's Guide in the general world overview...

This might skew the numbers for the future:

I remember seeing a quote by Steve Jackson, probably in the early 00s or so, saying something like "I love to see D&D grow and bring in new players. Because in a year or two some of those players are going to get bored with D&D and look for other options, and some of those players will become...

"I'm not gonna launch those ships. Captain's orders."

No no no. The goa'uld are the quori/inspired from Eberron.

One of the main characters in the Verdant Passage novel (the one where Kalak gets murderized) is Agis of Asticles, a noble who has a fairly large amount of farmland and, of course, uses slave labor to tend it. He is described as a character with a strong conscience, and makes efforts to treat...

It mostly did, because defilers had a much faster XP table than preservers (who used the normal wizard one). However, due to the way the XP tables kept doubling for most of a character's career, the effect was something like a defiler being about half a level ahead of a preserver until you hit...

Come to think of it, in retrospect it was probably a mistake to push various FR factions back in early 5e as player options for organized play, particularly the Zhentarim. They've generally been the go-to human-ish villains of the Realms in the past.

I'm not sure I'd call humanity "ascendant" in the Third Age of Middle-Earth, primarily due to machinations of Sauron and his servants. Arnor had gotten split into three different kingdoms and then eaten piecemeal by the forces of Angmar, and Gondor had steadily lost both land and power. Fourth...