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Matt Mercer gives good basic advice. Matt Colville gives good and mostly useful advice. Justin Alexander is a bit more advanced reading, I definitely find him useful. I've been enjoying Arbiter of Worlds YouTube and sub stack from Alex Macris (yeah I know, boo hiss) though mostly for confirming...

Nice. I ran a 4e campaign from 1st to 29th, I did find it didn't work so well from 24th level up; it slowed down a lot, and adventures could drag on for months. It was still playable though.

Video games like HALO and Mass Effect seem to do a good job creating new military sf universes, even if successful film adaptations are rare. Hollywood is in a bad rut right now but a new space opera universe is surely possible.

That's good advice. Of course it also needs players willing to step up to the challenge!

I'd much rather see a new Space Opera universe that draws on Star Wars tropes as well as Star Wars' own inspirations - Lensman, Hidden Fortress, Dambusters, Flash Gordon, John Carter et al. I remember how awestruck I was by the start of the TV series Andromeda - I want that kind of feeling, not...

5e D&D is a bit tricky in that it deliberately speeds up progression 11-20 compared to 5-10. 5-10 in 5e plays fairly similarly to 5-10 in BECMI or roughly 5-8 in 1e AD&D, the traditional 'sweet spot'. Mearls and co made a deliberate choice to speed up high level progression where 1e-2e AD&D...

I think if you are running high level 5e, it is best to accept that the PCs will sometimes deploy "I win" buttons and trivialise encounters. If you want to be able to guarantee an Epic Boss Battle, 4e D&D does that much better. I find 5e works best if treated a lot like 1e AD&D, with a high...

I've run a lot of high level play across most D&D editions. 3e/PF1 is the only one where I really didn't enjoy it. 4e gets painfully slow from about 24th level and the PCs tend to outstrip the monsters a bit, but it's still workable, nothing like 3e/PF. 5e has a shallower power gradient and...

They were obviously playing Savage Worlds or D6 System and spending their Hero Points or Bennies. :LOL: I liked that fight a lot, the slow-mo bits meant I could actually follow what was happening. I would have disliked it in Star Wars, because Star Wars is not a superhero genre (I disliked the...

It was definitely a flawed film, but it was a real film. A bar that even Spiderman: No Way Home, the best of the rest of post-Endgame MCU, didn't meet IMO - NWH was more of a really well done exercise in fanservice. I said after watching it that GoG3 felt like a fond farewell to the MCU, for...

A lot of people post on D&D Beyond asking for help.

This is usually in-house lawyers, who are salaried and need to show they're earning their keep.

Most US companies are pretty horrid, but Jack Daniel's does have a rep for protecting their IP in the nicest possible way. :)

This is a very strange motivation for your C&D. Did you talk with an IP lawyer? Re Rockstar, well the game is using their trade dress, but most jurisdictions require origin confusion, not just a calling to mind. It seems pretty clear to me that the game is not Grand Theft Auto or an authorised...

Conversely, IME American players tend to swear at the table more than Brits do, especially male Americans. I generally prefer no IRL swearing during a D&D game. Happy to swear at the pub afterwards. :LOL:

Here in England, the player who doesn't drink alcohol during the game is the one likely to get the weird looks. :LOL:

I do assume this etiquette is common in the community!

I haven't experienced this as a problem with in-person play here in London, I think because 'no politics at the table' is already culturally ingrained, but playing online with US players it does sometimes become necessary to tell them to stop it with the anti-Trump rants etc.

"No raping the PCs". And more broadly a general idea that other players' PCs need to be treated with a certain amount of respect, more than you'd necessarily give to an NPC.

As of last May there were 5 PCs IMCs meeting your description - Campaigns & PC Groups - so pretty popular. 3 Champion & 2 Battlemaster (plus 1 Eldritch Knight).