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Except for you people (and you know who you are). :)

And really, the only thing that prevents those newer races from being picked even more is simply that the race options are spread among several different books, and aren't bundled into a nice neat list (outside of D&D Beyond). In Daggerheart, where the dozens of races (ancestries) are presented...

My game on Friday features a human, a goblin, an earth genasi, a harengon, and a plasmoid. My game this weekend has an elf, a dragonborn, a changeling, an owlin, a tiefling, a human, an aasimar, and a warforged. Anecdotal data is ultimately anecdotal. In my experience, parties with a wide...

This. I think there's a distinct difference between being immersed "in the setting" and immersed "in the character". I find it impossible to feel like I, personally, am "in the game", but I can definitely immerse in the perspective and thought processes of the character I'm playing.

I do think that's at least one important utility for a broader scope campaign setting. If the game features wide-ranging teleport magic, or at least supports magic of a style where teleporting magic/portals would be an expected trope, it helps to have something to point the players to as...

100+ votes in and only one for someone who virtually never GMs. Certainly points to the idea that this forum is for dedicated TTRPGers, and dedicated TTRPGers are usually GMs.

I don't play orphans normally, but it's generally rare for a character's family to be part of play at my tables, outside of modern-era games. I have had a few cases where two players ran characters with a familial connection, which is a nice bit of texture for intra-PC conversation.

Agree with this. I prefer when players make choices that drive the story and conflict forward, rather than chasing "immersion".

I value immersion the way that I understand it, but what I mean by immersion is different than what appears to be to the normal way people use it online.

I definitely like all of them, so any vote I make is simply a nod towards settings I've enjoyed, not a vote against any settings I didn't vote for. I voted for Big Continent, mostly because of Eberron, one of my all time favorite settings. I also voted for Archipelago and Shattered World...

I view it as the players' job to bring functioning cars; my job as GM is to make sure the race track is clear and wave the starting flag. I GM my games a quarter-mile at a time. :)

And some us are just 5e customers, who view 2014, 2024, TotV and A5e as just different trims and colors of the same car model.

One god for each class seems enormously gamist, unless the setting is intended to have the existence of classes as a recognizable social pillar.

Unless we’re doing a game based on established IP and all the players have a decent amount of background with the IP, that’s how I run all my games.

For sure. That's been true for as long as I've been playing. I don't think it's better or worse than any previous time; it's simply how players generally are. It's why I've been moving away from using setting as an extra restrictor on character creation for decades now, unless the system is...

I'd go with Ranger. While Geralt is a lot like a modern D&D character in that he doesn't really have any low stats, the closest things he has to an average stat are Intelligence and Charisma. (Note that I also believe that stats are expressions of what a character does, not their innate...

All of my in-person tables average around 3-3.5 hours per session, no matter who's DMing. I don't normally start at 1, but when it has happened, it's usually one session to get to 2, 2 sessions to get to 3, and then we hit our normal pace of about 3-4 sessions per level.

For me, yea, about that. Somewhere between 0.2 and 0.25 USD per page. (Or 4-5 pages per USD.) For $70, I would be expecting a 280-350 page book. I'd pay $60 for a 256 page book.

That I actually played a session of was Werewolf: The Apocalypse.

I appreciate the literal answer to my joke comment from a month ago. :)