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I think some people are mistaking this for sunshine and lollipops. It's more dark humor than golly gosh darn silliness. Clowns can be silly. They can also be scary. Out-of-place crazy chaos can make one roll one's eyes, but it can also be quite creepy. Presentation matters, so a DM can...

Do you have the playtest files? Reclaiming Blingenstone is a decent low level underdark sandboxy-style adventure.

This is a good point. Maybe this thing is a macguffin that the PCs need to take on a bunch of demon lords before level 15... That was mostly sarcasm, I actually hope this isn't the case.

This is definitely going in my game...on the final NPC right before the end of the campaign. :p

I may be wrong, but I believe I'm likely that someone. Glad it worked out for you!

It will be, just give it a couple pages.

Monsters and Death, page 198. Monsters don't make death saves, unless the DM makes them a special case.

The only support I think of is logic. If it's so simple to snuff it out after the change, what's the point? I believe the RAI is that sunlight is required to destroy it in that form, it just wasn't written very well.

A player plays a role on FATE, in Dogs in the Vineyard, even in Fiasco, and I'd accept that it is arguable that Fiasco is actually an RPG and not just an exercise in improv. But the last sentence of yours makes me want to back slowly away from the thread. The earth is flat. Alrighty then.

Over 4 different groups and few dozen I game with, none of them are anywhere near this vehemently opposed to this style of game. I don't disagree that this is your opinion, you are welcome to it, but it's not that of a "significant portion" of the RPG fanbase. You could call that anecdotal...

Right, it's the difference in style coming through. When an adventure throws you in the middle of something happening, you are directed to react to that and follow through with it. I mean, sure, you can start an adventure with goblins attacking the town the party is in, and the players can...

Fantasy or not, every time I consider it, it strikes me as quite bizarre. Killing = death = good. Sex = life = bad. Seems bass ackwards, amiright?

Just want to make sure we're talking about the same adventure here. :) A lot of NPCs, even relatively minor ones, have motivations spelled out for them. There are plenty of opportunities for roleplay, to the point that one of my more combat-oriented players has asked a couple times, "So, are...

There may not seem like a sense of urgency in PotA from reading through it as a potential DM, but trust me, the players feel it through the events that take place as the party interferes with the cults. In fact, one of the players even said last session, "We need to take these a-holes down...

Tanis was typical, Drizzt was meant to be a one-of-a-kind.

Some players can be to blame, too. For every wannabe that insisted on playing a Drizzt clone, there's likely more than one person who played with him that hates Drizzt.

I didn't mean to say 2e was bad because some of the adventures were bad. Just that the adventures were bad. White Wolf was a serious #2 in the 90s, to the point that TSR did try to follow the style with their adventures. Not saying that style of game has ever been more popular than D&D...

This is a misperception. Actually, it was accurate in 2e, I guess. Adventures from the 90's certainly did involve powerful NPCs, were railroady and marysue-ish, and generally terrible. But since 3e, FR has been "these guys exist, but use or ignore them how ever you want."

AD&D 2e's ill-fated railroady "story adventures" followed WW, not the other way around. Lion Rampant created Whimsy Cards, a generic accessory to add more story and player agency into RPGS, and the followed up with Ars Magica, which, while not the first story game RPG, was the first popular...

Hmmm. Well, it's a bit tough to tell you whether the stuff you hate about it is still around if you don't remember why you hate it. I could say the high level NPC thing isn't a problem any more, but then it's never been a problem the few times I've run in FR. Drizzt, Elminster, et al, have...