Search results

To be fair, while a lot of the more obvious clickbait is "sensationalistic or controversial," it's far from the only standard of clickbait. Another extremely common standard is "in the absence of news, make news about the absence." There's nothing wrong with this article, per se. I mean it...

To be clear, I was talking about one way someone could interpret the lore to represent. Neither I nor the printed lore present it as a standard of any kind.

Appreciate the responses. I think I remember a video that talked about warlocks kind of like, shopping around? Like reaching out to potential patrons, getting some small powers, before settling on a full patron-warlock relationship. I think that idea is not present in the written lore of the PHB...

But I'm curious where this issue originates. Was it in playtest material, where fluff and lore text can sometimes be excluded? But why does that matter when the version they stuck with and went to print explicitly does not say that?

This is what we've done more than once, and each was successful in terms of maintaining setting tone and such. Like we did an all-human Diablo game where one PC was an elf, the trance rest was just treated as a paranoid warrior's conditioning. A loxodon's trunk simply signified this warrior's...

While I certainly don't think a 3 in stats "doesn't matter," I do think this example shows that there is a big difference to how I think of these stats than you do. I just think there's more attention and importance given to these extremes than they actually warrant, simply because there's...

I think there's a significant flaw in comparing a monster statblock with Int 3 to a PC's Int 3, which is that you don't roll what can't be achievable. You roll when something is achievable* but not without risk or certainty. The Intelligence score/modifier is an incomplete measure of a...

Had a Paladin with a 3 Dex, which was very fun playing a character who would dive out of the way after the Fireball explosion clears. I'm currently playing this Druid/Wizard/Cleric multiclass with 18s in her Int and Wis, has +16 to most Int/Wis checks, and a +24 Arcana. She can boost those...

I'll often keep the bad results, long as the table itself is fine with it. I had a rogue PC whose only positive modifier was a +0 Dex, as an example of the worst roll I stuck with. An adventurer by circumstance, not by choice, who still had his share of wild successes. But I think there's...

Odyssey of the Dragonlords and . . . Oh, I'm forgetting the title but it basically was a follow-up to the older Baldur's Gate games that round out the other major works he's done, that I'm aware of.

No issue with mixing so far, though we largely switched to 2024. When the campaign ends and I start doing session zeroes for future games, we'll probably standardize what rules will come from which source. Like I want to use the 2014 Backgrounds, plus Tasha's ASI options, with 2024 species and...

I'm not sure if I agree with this or not, and it really boils down to if you're saying lore needs to be established for the  Dragonmarks or for the mechanics of a Dragonmark as it is applied outside of its usual lore. I do agree with the latter, in that I can't really wrap my head around not...

Assuming the best of both parties, or just at the very least that they're not each stereotypical caricatures, I would expect this DM to have a conversation about it. A DM who doesn't is waving their own red flag just like the player who hears and agrees to the setting and tone pitch waves their...

When I think of a circus troupe, it's a collection of individuals who are bright, colorful, eccentric in their movements and behavior, and generally each member fits that description while still being very unique to each other (the acrobat being unique to the strongman to the clown, etc.). But...

As a player, my preference is story-based milestones that I don't require to be visible; no XP whatsoever. As a DM I run it the same way, with visibility depending on whether drawing a goal line will improve motivation or steer planning. Like when the end of the campaign was in sight, the...

My 3.5 and 4e games never lasted long enough to level up more than once, but in 5e, since getting back into it about 8 years ago, I've been in a campaign that's taken 6 years to go from levels 1 through 18. That said, I've had 3 PCs in it. Bard died at level 3. Rogue retired at level 6...

I did want the ASIs removed from species, but felt like them being moved to Backgrounds just punted the problem rather than fixing it entirely, which in my opinion Tasha's already did. Plus I think the 2014 Background features were too big of a loss. Which is fine, like it isn't the direction I...

My own experience, which is limited, I started DMing in 2018 and my first campaign is just now nearing its end as a full lvl 1- 20 campaign. I've had other games end earlier than that, it's just the one I'm taking all the way to 20. I'm a big cannibalizer, like molding and rewriting official and...

Other mentions say they came from an unknown realm, but it's fair to assume what you did.

To be fair, the books do say the gods come from beyond Exandria. Critical Role streams have expanded upon the details of the "unknown realm" the gods originated from.