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I don’t, never liked the D&D multiverse, not Spelljammer, not Planescape. Give me one world (out of multiple, distinct, separate ones) and leave it at that.

from what I hear it used to be a good place to get visibility earlier in its life, people like MT Black and JVC Parry got their start there, but over the years it lost that ability as stuff got swamped in a ton of new releases which made it harder to get noticed and they both moved on from...

you are the one making the argument that a DM has to have a good reason to exclude something and that one person’s ‘it is OP’ is just another person’s ‘it is good’. So either your standard is relevant or why might just all go on our merry way and not care about the case you are trying to make...

I never used ‘it’s not in the PHB’ as my argument, so not sure what you think you nixed the objection that they are not in the PHB? So we are on the same page here, it is not relevant whether they are in the PHB or not. To take this further, would you then expect a DM to accept all WotC...

I was talking about the OGL 1.1 and DDB, not DMsGuild. The only reason to publish on DMsG very much is you using WotC IP. You accept the higher fees and publishing restrictions so you can use the IP.

you can see that however you want. If the player can argue with ‘but I like it’ then the DM does not need more than a ‘I do not like it’ as justification either. You can take that as the implied reason whenever a DM says ‘no tortles in my game’, or ask them whether there is more to it. I don’t...

up to the DM, same as the tortle. I don’t think that something arbitrarily making the cut to be in the PHB1 rather than the PHB2 (Xanathar’s) makes any difference I see the books as a collection of options, not as mandates. I would not want Dragonborn in Krynn, in FR I don’t care either way...

I don’t know, as long as your argument for including tortles doesn’t go beyond ‘I’d like to play one’ or ‘Silvery Barbs is really powerful and I want it’, I don’t see why the DM has to do a lot of heavy lifting to justify their exclusion

yes, it is different in that way, it is no different in that you pay a fee to gain access to the marketplace whereas the OGL would have taken that fee without giving you anything in return

oh, they can air it, they just cannot expect everyone else to either agree or be silent

I thought they are sterile, so them breeding of their own volition is impossible. Are you talking about the parents here?

There is no law against it so I guess that, yes, you are allowed to. I would not go so far as saying that anyone on the internet knows about these things, but if you do and do not care then yes, I am judging you, much like Questing Beast got judged for not addressing it in one of their videos...

Not giving something much thought is not a good look though. It's one thing to say they do not know about it because they are not in online spaces this comes up in, but knowing about it and not caring requires a certain level of privilege at a minimum.

I believe these are two distinct groups (Yochai and Kelsey vs 'faces of the community that do not speak up'). The latter might be directed at Questing Beast or Bob Worldbuilder

excavates, extrapolates

Not sure what your character saw that would make them suspect the potion dealer. Based on the die roll they apparently saw nothing… As far as I am concerned the potion can be fake or not, your character may think they have a reason to believe the potion is real or fake, that reason might also...

I don’t think I needed it, doubt I will ever play it, but I wanted it for ‘inspiration’’ same, pretty sure I could easily have skipped a lot of them, the goal is to be more discerning this year ;)

I see him more as a game designer who is also popular on YT rather than a YTer who dabbles in game design (see DC20)

I backed 13A and decided against DC20, he seemed to have very little design knowledge, basically a few years of playing 5e and nothing else DC20 raised a lot more money though, with him being a YTer…

I know, and I did. My point was that the YTers with no track record of anything manage to reach KS funding levels that established designers can only dream of. I wish experience would be valued more than it is, and that is not limited to TTRPG products