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Okay, first of all sorry for the snark regarding knowing other systems than D&D. It's just that I feel that D&D is particularly bad at the whole "core resolution mechanism" thing; there wasn't one until 3rd edition, and I feel that until this day, it never really got the hang of it as well as a...

What you seem to be missing here is the possibility of playing with a ruleset that has sensible, broad rules that basically tell you "If there's no procedure and you feel that a roll ought to be made, just take the stat/skill that seems most fitting, assign a modifier according to a standard...

I think this one is really sweet ... it's a little self-referential, the whole "we're having a long rest" scene really only makes sense if you already know that D&D is supposed to be about action adventures and that this is what happens in between, but really, who doesn't know? It's just nice to...

And then there's this meme along the lines of: (Person who didn't read Frankenstein): "Frankenstein's the Monster!" (Person who read Frankenstein): "Frankenstein's not the Monster!" (Person who understood Frankenstein: "Frankenstein IS the Monster!"

Thanks - I just meant to say that he probably wasn't James Bond in Moonraker ...

Wait a minute ... checking out the preview, and finding: New Material: Kij Johnson & Roger E. Moore Editing: Kij Johnson Now, while I'm pretty sure that it's not THE Roger Moore we're talking about here ... is it THE Kij Johnson, who happens to be a really great fantasy writer? Yep, Wikipedia...

Things like this are really cool because they show that the players actively and communicatively take part in world-building, and what more can you ask for as a GM?

I love that about 13th Age, and it's something that I definitely plan to use in whatever fantasy campaign I start next (sadly, apart from that, 13th Age isn't my thing at all, I hate the hard disconnect between combat and everything else ...).

That's awesome! (though it probably means we'll end up well beyond 100 pages ...).

It's probably a difference in what you're used to, and I admit that I haven't played a whole lot of Dragonbane yet, but I can'tsee why I shouldn't be able to do with it everything that I might be doing with any edition of 5e. It can represent most of its ancestries (and new ones should be easy...

I just have to mention that this runs counter to all my experiences in 38 years of roleplaying. We did chases without dedicated chase rules, swam through underground rivers without dedicated rules for swimming and holding your breath, threw big rocks down on enemies without any rules for how to...

I think there's also a subtle difference between "fit the campaign" and "fit the setting". Your campaign can be about a bunch of characters that are totally ouf of place in the campaign setting, and you'll still be fine if everyone is on board with it.

Well, honest ignorance is better than wilful ignorance, I guess ... I changed it in the thread title to avoid further confusion. In my mind, it was still in the "harmless and slightly self-ironic" category.

Thanks for the clarification, being a non-native speaker, I think I was still stuck with the older, probably less offensive meaning. And sorry for any increased heart rates I might have caused!

Not sure ... I think that term was thrown around a lot a few years (or decades?) ago in RPG circles, but maybe in a more offensive way than I realized. Basically, the current talk about Greyhawk remembered me of the whole thing. I'm not even sure if a "xenophobic" world would be the key...

EDIT: I changed the title to remove a possibly offending term; sorry for that! I'm not sure if I'm maybe ten years behind here, but I do remember that there has been some harsh critique of players wanting to play characters who, in their respective settings, would be considered highly unusual...

I'm not the current player base, but I'm pretty sure that the notion that I can play a Tiefling and that this fact alone will make me something exotic and special in the game world has its appeal. Game of Thrones/House of Dragons are still things, and they come with the notion that stuff like...

This part sounds cool - it probably wasn't part of the original Greyhawk (though I wouldn't know), but I really like the idea of Orcs and other traditionally "evil" ancestries traditionally having been the foot-soldiers of an evil power, but being fed up with it and setting out to do their own...

Just a sideways perspective: My acquaintance with D&D and it's settings has always been more in passing (played some AD&D2 in the Forgotten Realms, read a few Dragonlance and Dark Sun novels, hated 3e and still haven't played 5e even though it feels kind of nice), the inclusion of Greyhawk...

You mean like finally rolling a d20 to cast a spell?