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I'm a fan of thoughtful charop but Optimization/build guides have become a problem for d&d because 5e tried so hard to streamline & simplify everything. Knowing how to optimize without being a disruption requires the player to understand the system well enough to metaphorically read the cards...

Eberron goblinoids are different to the point that they even have their own names for themselves Goblins were called golin'dar, meaning "quick people". "Golin" in goblin language translates to "quick," referring to both speed and intelligence. Hobgoblins were called ghaal'dar, meaning "mighty...

That would be pretty awesome if wotc did that with 2024 eberron stuff. Running eberron campaigns with tiefling players can get super annoying when they start loredumping Asmodeus and ties to planes/planar lore that don't exist. It would also have the benefit of making tieflings actually...

I want poke at that "establish silence" comment before I get to the rest of the post. That seems like you are suggesting that you interpreted my post as suggesting session zero should be a do now for all things or else the gm just needs to silently accept it when it was a post saying that...

Not really, these kinds of things are fair game for the GM and players to bring up at any point in play. I think that @payn kinda nailed it but "session zero" obligations have almost been fetishized to the point where the gm is expected to approach it with the skills of a nearly omniscient...

I have been that gm frequently (not specifically with @DrJawaPhD) It's far more trouble to deal with the RoLePlAyEr who thinks themselves the main character and operates under the shield of "I'm a RoLePlAyEr"

You completely left out and kinda maligned an additional form of CharOp that focused on reciprocity. That flavor of optimized PC is either completely forgotten and (often) considered dead weight or seen as the insulation and rocket fuel cranking everyone else in the party to 11 and/or critically...

You completely left out and kinda maligned an additional form of CharOp that focused on reciprocity. That flavor of optimized PC is either completely forgotten and (often) considered dead weight or seen as the insulation and rocket fuel cranking everyone else in the party to 11 and/or critically...

Context is important, that quote was in relation to the hypothetical spectre of social media outrage. It's relevant because that particular series of light novels has a plotline that involves purchasing a dwarven child slave to train for something crafting related. There was some controversy...

That one should be easy, we even have a recent example from 2 years ago. "I don't condone slavery personally. However, it's true that I wrote Rudeus as someone who is not averse to slavery. Also, the original story is written with a kind of mild setting where it is accepted that, "Slavery is a...

Serious question because I don't know who or or what point this is directed at. Explain what reason? Can you elaborate on what you are unsure of?

Lots of discussion since I posted this morning. It seems like just about all of the darksun critics in this thread are circularly quoting and referencing what they themselves and each other assert is in the darksun books as justification for doing violence to the setting rather than actually...

I'm not sure if the point you are trying to make has anything to do with the discussion because you don't seem to be talking about anything printed. You might need to bone up on the actually printed setting. Rajaat is presently sealed. The cleansing wars happened generations ago, old school...

Quite the tube Goldbergian deck chair shuffling.. why on earth? You make it sound like there was a journal entry∆ from a doctor observing one of unit 731's procedures on a log is described Treat it like black leaf, have you ever engaged in them at your table? I've run lots of games set in...

You've got it backwards, although my "healed" typo could have given you the wrong impression. Look more closely at the specific words I used. Nobody on athas likes the current state of the world because it's a post apocapyptic hellscape and even further from the earlier ages than the world was...

That is also not answering the question or providing the clarification requested and is why I asked for specific examples & specific books. That's a critical clarification because it very much seems like you are weaving and bobbing around admitting that you are trying to say an updated darksun...

Yes, I read what you said in 958 where you opened with "Alot of the problem DS came in later product". That's the problem and what I was directly and explicitly asking you to backup because you seem to be relying on Internet wisdom summaries made with second and third hand descriptions of what...

Is any of what is actually printed in game books☆ worse than the kinds of stuff you can expect to find in the best selling monster f'r section of the book store where you find plots rooted in SA kidnapping mind control mind-rape & worse, or is this refering to a thirdhand description of a third...