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To do Faerun '68, you need to back up some. Industrialization needed to happen earlier. Metalurgy and crafting tools progress, but so does magic. There is probably the option for magical industrialization, such as artifact level magic items that produce more magic items, but I suspect that tech...

Dalelands are full of nature loving youth culture and their new music the olds can't stand while Baldur's Gate is all Mods and Rockers.

I think you're thinking of Fat Tuesday. ;-)

Naw, Carnival is Rio de Janeiro. Mardi Gras is New Orleans.

I'm the opposite. A 5.75 would interest me more than a 6E. Some patches built ontop of everything else that was available would make it more of a full featured role playing game like I would want and probably within my liking. A 6E would probably just scrub everything back to another tactical...

Naw, they're least common denominator for the most people. Bling like ribbons and such are for niche market items that need to sell themselves. WotC spends their money on things that matter to most people like art, hardcovers, and layout.

Voted Other for totally self desire reasons: I want to see a 5.24 work up of the L series starting with Secret of Bone Hill as a tier 1 sandbox like how they did the Saltmarsh U series.

Because of all the talk I purchased Radiant Citadel yesterday and have started reading it. Yes, the Radiant Citadel isn't really a city, but more of the only caravanserai at the intersection in the roads linking 15 (27?) civilizations (cities/nations/worlds/planes?) in what looks to be a...

If that is the easiest, then we'll try, but typically my group has no trouble changing things to something we think will be more fun. I think with every new version of VtM there were some changes we thought were great and adopted along with some we didn't.

I remember when I first ran across such issues. I did what I usually do in such cases and kept my mouth shut and went to some friends of mine who are sociology professors and asked them. Twenty minutes later it all made sense. I don't remember the details, but I believe that the tl;dr version is...

The last campaign I ran started with discussing this with the players as the entire setting was being built from scratch. We had to resolutions: 1) it would be more of a polytheistic setting where there gods represented aspects of nature (ie their domains) and 2) to get Raised, Resurrected, or...

I usually have the other problem. Me: What's up with the demonic dreams and strange events you mentioned when you told your backstory to everybody? Them: That's for you to figure out and work into the game. Still, there is usually only one player who comes up with those ideas and wants them...

How about social encounters? I found some help tips in So You Want to be a Game Master book, although it was mostly upping the number of things I was doing already. Mainly prep on descriptions, NPCs, and what they would want to talk about or ask the players. Do you think mechanics of some type...

Good point. We always discuss new players between DM and current players before allowing them in our game. I'm pretty sure that if I said "I've got a new player, but they refuse to play anything but a tortle character." that they'd look skew eyed and me and nix them before I would. Even beyond...

I think they mean recursive on this site as I feel there are people on both sides that just like to argue on the internet too much.

Well, considering they just released 5.24, I'd say you are going to have to wait at least 4 more years for that. However, that Mearls and others are gone, and they are bringing in fresh new faces, they may be laying down the groundwork for that.

Back in the olden days, we certainly never played RAW and never tried. Realistically, we all started with one of the boxed sets and then bought the books and started using charts and tables from those, adding in other rules as we discovered them and decided to use them. Even then, there was a...

Interesting. I put some thought into how my setting's elves are different than human, but haven't given that much thought to half-elves. There was the one nation of half elves, where the elves, instead of dying off, had mixed with the humans that encroached on their lands in pre-history. They...

IIRC, they just allow for gaining contacts. I was going to expand to do contacts or information. Better rolls would be needed to get the specific information a PC might go out seeking. There are other specific downtimes for things like gambling or doing crimes with financial rewards.

Not familiar with Shadowdark or their Carousing tables, but plan on using the regular D&D Carousing downtimes for my own Urban Campaign game, increasing the results for an assortment of things. You already have the charts and everything, perhaps it would be possible to weight the outcome by a...