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Plus the boss battle is basic story structure. Can you imagine in Star Wars blowing up the Death Star near the beginning and ending on shooting a couple TIE Fighters down? ;) Sorry to jump on that bandwagon. However, the article does have some good ideas and it’s awesome to hear from one of the...

This is definitely an important issue! Thanks for doing this series. As for why they shifted the Upper Planes, I never really heard, but it could simply be that he hadn't given them as much in depth thought until later. For one thing, the article only briefly mentions the arrangement of the...

Thanks for sharing! Those are pretty awesome! This whole thread is getting me wanting to start a new campaign... must resist... ;)

This and the Etsy one are tempting, but definitely pricey. For a campaign based almost entirely around it, I’d consider it. However, I’m already eagerly awaiting my Stygian Barge from Reaper for a possible nautical Planar/mythological campaign. It also occurred to me that these (especially the...

Awesome! And definitely well deserved! The effect of the streaming games is incredible. (Although it will be tricky figuring out who gets to keep it and for long until next year)

There is a lot of fuzzy math here comparing between comparing sales numbers to active players and and 3e’s sales in the first year (with sales numbers still increasing) to 5e sales active players after several years of growth, not to mention the words “counting every edition” are never mentioned...

Well, not sure about that claim about 3e and 4e players (my anecdata says it’s more 50/50 “new to 5e” vs “3e” but my anecdata is useless and I haven’t seen hard numbers from WotC). :) However, from what unscientific internet polls on a variety of sites have shown, that when asked about favorite...

Although, to be fair, people have been claiming there's rumors that Hasbro is on the verge of selling off some or all of WotC since the day they bought them.

So as someone who has zero background in M:tG, but is really excited about this - are there any good sources to get some background on Ravnica (other than just digging through pages of Google results)? I see there is a novel trilogy and novella trilogy - those any good? I have no idea how much...

Nice try, but I think a massive amount of the several hundred messages in this thread are debating whether that thing is actually a spade or not. ;) Hand waving away the entire discussion convinces no one. And that is as logically contradictory as a 3-sided square. Cheating means breaking the...

Exactly!! If everybody at the table agrees to it - it's not cheating. That's been my definition all along. It seems the simplest and most intuitive.

No, it’s really a cleverly hidden Carl Jung reference meaning we will have more archetypes (aka subclasses) soon!

It’s meant to look like the logo, but a later photo shows that it is from “Summer” because Nathan Stewart admittedly likes to be playful with teasing fake clues just to mess with us. At this point, unless he says something officially (or I suppose it’s fully mocked up like that PHB cover) don’t...

Interesting idea, but we’ve been moving towards more simplicity than complexity (e.g. switching to 5e from PF). Also, when our DMs do fudge numbers, it’s actually pretty rare. At a guess, maybe once or twice every 2 or 3 sessions. But it’s an interesting rule for groups to consider.

Maybe it's getting lost in all of the posts, but I tried to explain several times that we 1) are very open about the practice happening in general and do not hide it, and 2) yes, we actually will occasionally announce when we fudge things. I even listed specific examples earlier including...

That's my main point - if the players wouldn't be ok if they knew about it, then don't do it. (I'm not talking about every instance. I'm talking about being open about the practice in general.) If anyone at the table is doing anything that they feel they need to hide from everyone else, then...

There’s certainly a mix of “product of their time” and “even sexist for back then.” For example, during that time period, I was still being taught in school that using only masculine pronouns was grammatically correct. So I wouldn’t fault them for that, it was unfortunately publishing standard...

The issue of a possible double-standard is good one. For me, there seems to be two relevant pieces. One, it comes down to what I said earlier that it all depends on what the entire group would think if they knew. Maybe I’m in the minority here, but in my groups that have DM fudging, we are...

For one thing, I think there is an important distinction between what's good for the characters versus what's good for the players. Things that are very bad for the characters can make it fun for the players. :) When DMs fudge in games I play in, it may be beneficial or harmful to the...

A lot of it is starting to sound pretty accusatory that those who are fine with DM fudging are bad and wrong. However, I've also found it amusing to see more accusations of "sophistry" in this thread than in my philosophy classes. ;)