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We did a Tortles one-shot before, about 2 years ago. Donatello was an Artificer, and Metalhead was a Warforged Fighter. Leo was a Fighter, Mikey was a Ranger, and Raphael was a Psion who was actually Krang in a clone body.

Canon giant turtle?

I absolutely have a response to this, but Eric's Grandma is watching. :)

In my experience, the genre is fairly progressive. But, most same-sex relationships and genderfluid characters are not involved in the primary relationship. So I could see some readers, even more progressive ones, not loving that aspect because it damages their ability to identify with one of...

Did Drizzt and Elminster ambush you in Des Moines? :)

Some media is art; most is not. The fact that most people don't want to live with constant tension between their experience and perceptions just seems like a human truism.

Honestly, this thread has seemed pretty sober and fair-minded for the bulk of it.

Gotta be honest, disliking Eberron and Star Wars, and hating FR to the point of not even playing in it, would be a major red flag to joining a table or inviting someone to a table. They're just so bland and inoffensive; it's like hating Iowa. I don't have any plans concerning Iowa, but I'm...

Totally agree. All games have strong points and weak points; having a larger list of gaming techniques that you're familiar and comfortable with makes it easier to leverage a specific game's strengths and hopefully glide over its weaknesses.

To try and keep as much alliteration as possible, I'd say Trad emphasizes "storyline". (I can't think of a good word for characters that starts with "S"! :) ) Obviously, there's tons of nuances, and plenty of games that hybridize types, but that's pretty good for a shorthand.

Miniature giant space tortle is awesome. I'm now imagining the Astromundi Cluster as a bunch of hibernating giant space tortles, hiding away in their asteroid-like shells.

Hmm. Features that provide stat swapping don’t matter. You can basically ignore ASIs and just take feats. You essentially have Jack of All Trades and a bunch of bonus save proficiencies. You have a lot more freedom around types if you find good magic armor. Cross-stat multiclassing becomes...

That would seem relatively unlikely. Romantasy, like the romance genre it developed from, is built around prioritizing the repetition of tropes over innovation. It's meant to be a comfort read, not a challenging one. That's not an indictment, very few people want to do nothing but challenge...

No one is particularly interested in what you do in your game, outside your players. This is primarily a discussion of technique and advice. You've simply offered up details of your campaign; these have become a useful test case for hypothetical discussions on these techniques.

Players who are playing in bad faith don't need to be deferred to in any colloborative sense, obviously. Players asking for raw power grabs with little sense of story connection are almost certainly acting in bad faith.

Hmm. So does that represent an evolution in thought over the past 15-20 years, with narrativism becoming more defined as a set of techniques and less as a concept animating game design? I definitely still feel like specific game designs foster narrativism techniques, and others dissuade them...

Same here. I have zero issues with your posts, even if I don’t always agree.

Don't intimidate me with a good time. :)

I will respond only to confirm that topic did crop up a few days (and hundreds of posts) ago.