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  1. Paul Farquhar

    Whamageddon (Last) Christmas

    I think Tom Jones deliberately leans into the predatory subtext, especially as he got older. It's satire, you are supposed to question it.
  2. Paul Farquhar

    Whamageddon (Last) Christmas

    I overheard a cover of someone singing something from Muppet Christmas Carol. Don't know who the band was, but I'm surprised there isn't more of this. I guess Disney ruthlessly hunts down licence violators? Heard some choral renditions of traditional carols. So far no Wham!
  3. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    The "very small numbers" approach works better than removing breath weapons. But damage resistance makes for a good plot point. There are several Dragonborn in RotFM because they have cold resistance, and the climate suits them. If a character has fire resistance, they are likely to be drawn to...
  4. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    A setting needs to have some sort of centerism, human or otherwise. There will always be a dominant species. If there are others, they exist in small numbers, and define themselves relative to the dominant species.
  5. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    I've seen a few gnomes, more than I have dwarves or elves in fact. Don't care for them myself though.
  6. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    No it isn’t. I’ve told you before that halflings were the most popular PC race in my group, outnumbering humans. That was a few years ago though, and since then the halflings have themselves been outnumbered by warforged.
  7. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    Sci fi puts them on different planets. No one is the Mos Eisley Cantina is from Mos Eisley.
  8. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Sitting down and singing of gold is a popular dwarf move.
  9. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    If you think about the consequences, no D&D setting works, and it’s not possible to create one that does. The game runs on creative vaguery, player character exceptionalism and the willing suspension of disbelief. In other words, D&D works only because of a social contract to never deal with...
  10. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    What do you mean? They are immune from bludgeoning damage taken when passing though low doorways.
  11. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    In a sense - Dragonborn are very rare for a reason - so there is simply not enough of them that it’s possible to field units of breath weapon infantry. If you had a setting with a significant Dragonborn population you would either have to rule that most did not have breath weapons, or that they...
  12. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    No, it’s up to the DM.
  13. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    I quite often play dwarves because I identify with them: I’m short, bearded and grumpy. But they don’t seem particularly popular these days. Halflings are though.
  14. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    I don’t think there is any lore that states that all Dragonborn have breath weapons. Not all humans have an extra feat.
  15. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

    Or you could just write it in your character’s backstory.
  16. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    I don’t really see dwarves amongst any demographic, unless I play one myself.
  17. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Which Campaign or Adventure Would You Adapt To Prestige Television?

    we have bard, rogue and artificer, but no warlord.
  18. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    Maybe, but I don’t think it’s that common to play Durge as the default. My Durge was a dwarf.
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