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Started new year reading Interceptor City by Dan Abnett, following closing 2025 reading Double Eagle and Apostle's Creed from Sabbat Worlds to refresh my memory. Certainly a bit weird reading the intro to Sabbat World, with weirdness on timing - talking about some of the Horus Heresy novels...

I think the GM and host are two different people in the example. For me though, l can't say yes or no, depends on why the DM wants to exclude the other species not in the 3 mentioned books. I would hope in this case the DM would explain why not Tabaxi in particular, or allow them as they...

I think it is more why did you eat the baby? What was intent/ reason for doing so? Is it a Soylent Green scenario? Were you coerced into it? Did you just wake up and decide one day I want to eat a baby?

I like the way Lord of the Rings Online has been handling Orcs and Goblins in recent years, showing some variation in attitudes as such.

I think you are taking the most uncaritable reading of my posts possible. As ultimately yes I have, as described, had this happen in games I've played in, with me ultimately stopping playing a character I liked because someone came in with a concept that clashed with mine after I had already...

Slight tangent from these two bits - it may be a factor of changing life circumstances leading me to as a DM wanting to minimize my workload, and as a player wanting to play characters that interest me, in broadbrush strokes I tend to want to DM / play in one of the following four types of...

And further for the record, I dont think I've ever expressed that I think DMs should block player options if they exist, only that if a DM is blocking it i don't see a way out. After prior experiences as player and DM, my only concerns that may impact on character choices is that it doesn't lead...

Is why I also liked that the Kender in latest supplement were more described as insatiably curious and chatterboxes , rather than kleptomaniacs.

Im not trying to invent problems, I included some real examples earlier of things like this, I was just trying to make point that a player coming in with a given idea can impact on other players as well. We dont have these issues anymore in our group, but it did take time and conversations to...

We now use standard array to smooth some things out. But I think there can be an element of it is rude to suck in dnd, if player is deliberately building sub optimal (which this person was, the party wasnt a min / maxing one by any means, but playing a cleric and putting highest stats in...

I have had a couple of cases where I've ended up having to step in, or been involved in as a player, around player choices impacting other players. Real examples include: Player creating a glas cannon type striker in 4e, but then always charging up into Frontline trying to tank attacks, which...

For this one referring to very beginning of first book, where Tanis, Flint and Tas reunite and run into Toede, where it seems Toede etc are there at invite of seekers, and before the army actually attacks Solace and occupies it. Before that feel is that any war is far-off rumor, but somehow...

I ran dragonlance,.as like the general lore of thr world around the War of the Lance up until Dragons of Summer Flame, and was running the 5e adventure. While I generally liked the adventure and updates to lore in there, I still tend to base it around the races being quite xenophobic until...

I dont see it as the DM is always right, but if they aren't going to bend, what is the player going to do? If they can get whole group to move, then maybe that would show the DM that they are doing something wrong, but if the DM still gets players willing to play, then for better or worse they...

I dont think it fully works, as depending on what is happening, the whole party could be impacted by the player playing that race, and other players may not be happy about it. I ran a Dragonlance campaign recently, I said based on the world, there are the common races that are native to the...

I dont understand this response. Im sure you've posted elsewhere that GM and Players have as much right to find the game they want to play as each other, and sometimes they wont align, so DM will need to find other players, player will need to find other DM, and each has as much right to that...

Wow, I remember watching Seventh Voyage of Sinbad years ago (the cyclops scene in particular sticks in my memory for some reason), the special effects here seem in line with Sinbad, but Sinbad was apparently from 1958....

Including/ plus Mount Gundabad (a bit unclear whether part of Ered Mithrin), the place where Durin I awoke.

I really need to read the Dark Tower at some point, maybe a goal for 2026.

Have now read Pet Semetary and Salems Lot. Pet Semetary starts a bit slower, with events and tension building up to the climax, that is some respects ends abruptly with a bit of ambiguity. Is a lot more about grief and what it can do to people, that about evil as such - the evil here feels...