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I suspect the predictable magic of of a lot of rpg fantasy world's might counterintuitively (since some of it is "divine") make people less religious. Many years ago I came to the realization that it's really kind of odd that many religions don't revolve around worshiping the sun given that it's...

Alright, well my northstar for what is Arthurian is the works of Chrétien de Troyes. The codification of this originally Celtic mythology into English national legend came by way of a mostly French language story cycle, the Matter of Britain, because the actual middle ages tend to work like...

Mad Max is my pick whenever this comes up. I'm not even exactly that big of a fan, it's just that it's the most iconic post-apocalyptic setting which most others are cribbing from. The movies also play out more like ttrpg games than a lot of franchises, with lots of quest-givers, resource...

Is the default for them to be on or off?

Something like that would be my solution as well. I totally appreciate that it's not particularly realistic, but the realistic reasons you ride a horse in a vaguely medieval setting (an easier journey, being able to have the horse carry some of your gear, marking you as being of higher status)...

Given that Red Sonja was only in theaters for one night it's probably not much of a Renaissance. I have an unlimited movie pass and planned to see it but it was just gone immediately. It did however lead to the self-realization, given that I was disappointed at missing a movie that I am almost...

While the IGN post does identify it as a reboot, star Daniel Bernhardt is about to turn 60 and the plot description looks very different than the original, so this might be some sort of soft continuity sequel. Sadly the days of sequels having clear differentiation in titles are long past, but at...

There is in fact a new one coming out next year. A rough cut was evidently shown at GenCon, and a slightly different one was (briefly) sent out to those of us who were Kickstarter backers a few weeks ago, and if you liked the second one you'll probably like this upcoming one as well (from as...

If you are a business and the person calling your decision dumb or greedy has spent the prior half decade or so buying nearly all your products it might be advantageous to suck it up and listen to them. I think on this particular pretty minor issue likely we can go back. The next rules...

Sure, but defaults matter. I don't avoid making many changes to core rules because I'm lazy or because I don't think I can balance design changes, I'd happily rewrite anything and everything. I was up half the night last night dreaming up a complete overhaul of the 5e skills system, and I'm...

I really wish it weren't tied to weapon masteries since I hate weapon masteries, but otherwise it seems pretty cool.

Well all spells are "situational". It's really a matter of how often the situation they are for comes up in your game. A "situational" spell for a situation that comes up regularly is a good spell. It seems like you design encounters around CRs, and yeah Fireball doesn't shine for very long...

In 5e Classic, outside of helping absolute beginners pick one, I never once had a conversation about the mechanical choice of background with a player as their DM, or with a DM as a player, and that was just dandy with me. Had plenty of conversations about narrative background, but whether the...

Given that, fundamentally, it is designed to be a violence game, having at least some enemies be readily identifiable as inescapably evil by nature cuts down on the number of moral conundra we need to explore. I don't dislike exploring moral conundra, I just prefer that some encounters be...

My charitable theory for why its inflexible (by default) in 2024 is that they got it into their heads that ability score bonuses should be inflexibly tied to something, so that sometimes people would choose something suboptimal, and since race was out it became backgrounds. My less charitable...

They got Jaxxon!

Well it would be like that, if Apple had historically been most well known for creating apps for Samsung phones, if tech industry rivalries were as collegial as ttrpg publisher ones, if Apple were a small-cap, privately held company, and if consumers relationship with Apple was defined by their...

Well, Dark Sun-ness aside, it's a rare UA where I actually like all the subclasses. The unabashedly evil ones are probably more likely to be something I use for NPCs, but I can definitely imagine using all of them for something at some point. As the above indicates, I don't find them boring...

Focus here seems to be on the decision to stick with D&D rather than promote their own game, but I'm more intrigued by what the particular campaign is slated to look like. That sounds very cool as a D&D campaign. I was probably going to suggest a veer towards Westmarches for my current group...

Really the inflextion point was back with the start of campaign 2, which established that Critical Role as a "franchise" was defined by it being the same (core) cast of nerdy ass voice actors playing the characters, not by the particular characters, which in the still developing media genre of...