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I think coming to session 0 with most of the character already built is a problem. Do you know it's going to be compatible with the outcome of the session 0 discussion? You may have wasted your time or, if you insist on forging ahead with the character, risk being a disruption to the campaign...

If dragons are so skewed that they're essentially off the table as far as being a reasonable challenge for PCs to take on, why stat them up at all? Just treat them as a force of nature or something that generates situations rather than actually serve as combat opponents. The fact is, a GM can...

I think as far as ENWorld's censors would see it, yes, you're using it right.

Why exactly do we believe being dwarven means something in Middle Earth? Because dwarves played notable roles in the foreground - they were protagonists/supporting protagonists for the main narrative - so the world-builder (in this case Tolkien) made sure we had some of that information...

Regarding Greyhawk, does a species need to have one of their kind be a head of state for them to have deep connections to the setting? Do they need to be the majority or plurality population of a country to have a deep connection? How much detail does a setting need about a species for there to...

Well, hold on there. Halfling and gnome-ruled polities may not be around in the Greyhawk material, but that doesn't mean there's no room in Gygax's Greyhawk. If you look at the setting as published in the 1983 boxed set, when the various polities refer to demihumans in significant numbers to...

We take things fairly easy in our 5e game with the 1s/20s, using them as designed for attack rolls (miss/crit, respectively). But we also extend that to saving throws as is a VERY common house rule for these D&D editions that no longer include autofail/autosuccess on saving throws. And even...

Except the 1e method was often fairly quirky about when it was applied. For example, ice storm had no path to increase its damage in that edition. And that was part of the problem - some spells got a lot more powerful on level-up, others didn't even if they were based on a higher level spell...

Why do you insist on making Baby Jesus cry?

They may not know exactly where it is in the narrative structure, but in many cases, it's pretty easy to predict the story beat and when the milestone is coming. This is particularly true when working with an adventure path organized into chapters or episodes. They'll often involve dealing with...

I agree that it can be kind of frustrating sometimes. But I fear it's just a question of play style clash. Some players want to play the oddballs, the chaos agents, the furries... and some just want to play in a group that isn't a circus troupe or belongs at the Mos Eisley cantina. You might...

Good luck with the steroid. My wife's and my first cat developed a tumor and that was preventing him from eating well so he was losing weight. But it only helped for a couple of months. He was 18+ (originally a stray) and would have had a lot of trouble surviving anything more aggressive so we...

While there were a few disappointments in 2e (ranger, bard), we found that 2e improved enough on 1e that we were content to use it for the core of what we were doing and then bring in a few 1e elements for the rest. Wizard school specialists, specialty priests, better thief skill structure...

It's fine to be critical of a work, but it really helps if you can show at least some effing evidence that you've actually read it.

FYI, these threads have multiple participants and thus they're multi-participant conversations. A post may quote you, but that doesn't mean that post is directed AT you or critical of your point. It's a follow-up to a point you made that might be critical but it may also be a further...

My wife and I have started in on the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. We’re currently reading Carl’s Doomsday Scenario.

It's not that people are neglecting the NPCs' lifestyles - it's rather that, as NPCs, they're largely still in the background lives that PCs have left behind. Thus, no separate background is actually needed to flesh them out for play.

It is on my list of games to try.

FYI, removing martial arts as a separate skill and folding all unarmed combat (including smallish/simple weapons like knives and clubs) into the more general Brawling was one of 7th edition's improvements. But on the topic of Call of Cthulhu, one of the aspects I always enjoyed was the game...

In a word: No. In a few more words: whether "but I'm just playing my character" is a sufficient justification or not for behavior depends a lot more on the relationship of the player to the group. I guarantee there are people who are just disruptive and will grief other players through their PCs...