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Looks like someone's got their pants hitched up to their armpits over there.

Tim Kask is reported to have passed away. Source is Jim Wampler on Facebook.

Oh, have you got a treat ahead of you! There are some utterly amazing passages in RotK.

Yeah, the draconians are tied up into such a shocking genocidal betrayal that I really don't want a player's PC to be in that position. I don't even want them to be draconian-adjacent to it.

Well, actually nothing. I'm still putting a hard stop on that one.

I think an even bigger danger isn't retreating toward an extreme position, itself, as much as characterizing the other side's opinions or arguments in extreme ways, which serves, whether intentionally done or not, to widen the gap between your own position and the other side's.

Man, is that confirmation bias something else!

I know you're not asking me but there is one campaign I would give you a hard no on playing a Dragonborn. And that's the Dragonlance setting. The draconians and their origin are too core and significant to the setting to muddle with another humanoid dragon species.

Kinda hard to complain about people getting their back up when you're bringing the tone that gets their back up.

Do you think you really need to ask that? But then, what's the point of using the more jerkish language in this thread when you'd phrase it differently to a person's face? Why wouldn't you use the more polite phrasing here too?

Up until Max interferes with Holly, she's been contained. He doesn't need to do anything more to her. It's only when she tries to help Holly escape and then Will interferes that he even gets on the issue of probing Will to enable him to kill Max. And by then, it's way too late to get any of the...

Maybe you should take a look at how that reads. You could say "that sounds unfun" or you could say "that doesn't sound like it would work for me". One is yucking someone else's yum, the other says that wouldn't be yum for me. There's a difference. And it's the difference between being a dick and...

There's never going to anything untwistable by the homo-/transphobe crowd because, for them, truth itself is subordinate to their agenda. So there's no point in accommodating them or their threat to any degree. Best to just lay out your story and stand by it.

Keeping track of supplies/gear has (and probably still does) had implications for game balance - for the inter-PC balance sticklers. Back in 3e, one of the notable reasons wizards got a perceived increase in power was the simplification of rules that limited them in prior editions - including...

There rarely seems to be room to put on the full text of an ability, particularly with a paper sheet. So I put down the name of the ability and the page number for a quick reference.

Heck, no. I want my integrated Marvel Universe.

He's just in a house with a newborn, he's not in a delivery ward at a hospital. Besides, you think a guy with tons of energy and executive function thanks to his super-soldier formula can't keep a house clean?

I think @Li Shenron has a point in that it doesn't get you much for binary checks. But Brennan does use a lot of graded DCs and variable levels of success for d20 tests - at least ones that aren't trying to hit in combat where results are graded by a separate random generation (damage rolls). So...

I've been tempted to try adding a modifier of +-1d4 for certain circumstances that would be separate from advantage/disadvantage - kind of a 5e-style version of the DM's Best Friend from 3e (+2/-2 modifier). I generally like advantage/disadvantage, including their ability to negate each other...

In the schools when I was a kid, this was virtually absent. Maybe an occasional story about Hiawatha, but in white American culture, the mythology was virtually all about Classical (Greek, Roman, Egyptian) or Northern European (Norse, Beowulf) in the 1970s. In other words, the stuff oriented...