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As a grognard, it takes me a very long time to realize that things aren't aimed at me anymore (games, TV, music, movies, technology, even DnD). Once I finally realize I'm not the target audience, everything makes sense and then I can settle into what I want to do/enjoy doing, rather than...

But NA "culture" is not monolithic (including as it does Mexico and Canada, as well as the USA). There are hundreds of cultures represented in the United States alone. Do you just pick the largest "cultures"? This ties back to my previous question in the post above...

So I have a question then. If you are a company like WOTC, how many sensitivity readers are you hiring? How many cultures do you reference or ask for editing/reading for problematic rules/background writing? If you only select 2 or 3, because, remember, people are calling for full time...

I tend to not pay that much attention to mechanics when I make decisions about my character. I also don't spend very much, if any, time thinking through my character's "progression" at chargen. I'll let those things develop organically. Note, I am also playing Basic/OSE. Its not something as...

You should also check out The Alexandrian blog. He reviews plot holes, missing things, and in some cases rebuilds the adventures for ease of running. Lots of people like his work.

The only role it can't fill simultaneously on the team is healer, a la a cleric who might use healing during combat, which as everyone knows is sub optimal... But since every character has the ability to heal with a short rest or heal everything on a long rest, its actually a rather unnecessary...

I trust the players I'm playing with to follow game as laid out in session zero that they agreed to. I'm also trusting them to not fudge dice rolls (when not using the VTT supplied one), to not change their character sheet, or not to add gear or stuff they didn't actually have. I tell players...

The other element of this type of plot, a la Mutiny on the Bounty, is that a ship of that type NEEDS to stop at an island to restock its stores. Part of the voyage, pre-mutiny, is also using up supplies. Ships often carried enough to get them from point A to point B. Otherwise, it was belt...

Are you sure that's saying what you think it does? Writing his "faith" about things like "brotherhood, cultural divides, and bridging differences" and "seeking salvation and returning to your creator and home" doesn't sound particularly earthshattering, or out in left field. Like, don't all...

It took me awhile to decide if I wanted to respond to this, and how... As my brother has a severe developmental disability, and I grew up with that in the 70s/80s, etc., and played DnD and read and played Dragonlance, NOT ONCE did I interpret, view, see, or feel the Gully Dwarves were being...

In my games, I assume that players are literate in their own language, whatever cultural language that might be. But that's it. If you "know" 4 languages, you can read and write your own, but the other three you can speak and generally understand. You'd have to spend downtime/resources/skills...

I'd also add that when MMI is invoked, it is because the player disagrees with a decision by the DM, and chose to complain on a forum or twitter or whatever rather than talk to their DM about it. So it could be as simple as a stylistic difference, a game interpretation difference, or an...

I doubt it. I'm not keen on the direction of 5e/5.5/OneDnD as is, so I'm unlikely to get the book for the campaign, as I'd likely have to change it so much, its just as easy to use the old materials. Now, the Krynn Battle game I'll take a close look at. I've not found anything really easy to...

So , the only way to get the materials is to register on DnD Beyond, and the only way to create an account is to use your google or apple account? Am I missing something?

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I'm currently running two separate Greyhawk games, with very small parties, one based in Sterich, the other based in Furyondy. Both are using the Greyhawk Boxed Set, and Greyhawk: From the Ashes as the starting point. War has just ended. Sterich is free of enemies but fighting continues near...

A screen offers unlimited other distractions - tweets, TikTok, FB, and so on. It’s easy to switch from the digital character sheet to something completely unrelated. Ime, flipping through a PHB is usually only done to reference a rule, or look up a spell, then it gets put down and back to the...

Nope. Won't be buying 5.5. I'm done with 5e, and with the changes that I've seen through Tasha's, etc., its not a direction that will draw me back in. I'll continue to mine old editions, and look at other RPG's as necessary.

Nope. I prefer dead trees for my RPG's, particularly if I'm playing in person. Nothing would be worse than sitting around the table with everyone with devices. I also don't use subscription services for my gaming, either.

Helmets were always a strange thing in our games. In Ad&d it said that every suit of armor included a helmet. Wearing a helmet impacted your ability to hear noise, and whether you were surprised, if I'm remembering correctly. I don't think we ever actually played that way though... We did...