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I think what this thread is ultimately teaching me is that monsters knew what they were doing in 2014, but in 2024 the monsters can only respond to players using the worst faith possible interpretation of what they are saying and doing, never once actually reacting to what is being said or done...

Used to be me but now? Nah, I let that nerd flag fly. Some people got pictures of friends and family on their desks, I've got a HeroForge mini of my PC painted by Den of Imagination. I have a Dimension 20 calendar, and a Gameboy lego set I built over several breaks. If someone else wants to...

Yeah I dont want to say that my view of that wizard fiction is anything other than my own view. For me, an integral part of a wizard showing understanding, knowledge, and skill is to do more than repeat the same spells the same way as everyone else every time. It's not about having more access...

For me the Sorcerer vs Wizard comparison is really just that I feel like some of their mechanics match the other's fiction better. More specifically, I think that the Sorcerer's metamagic fits the Wizard fiction better than the Wizard's own subclasses. Playing a Wizard, I feel less like a...

"Suddenly, it assumes the form of a man in tattered black robes. His hair and beard are long, black, and streaked with gray, and his eyes crackle with eldritch power." Description of the Mad Mage in Curse of Strahd, for what it's worth.

My general preference in terms of being a collaborative DM is that I don't really see any reason for my restricted list of D&D species to be anything other than the species the players are requesting to play. There's already so much of the world that is mine to define and build without input. If...

To be fair, while a lot of the more obvious clickbait is "sensationalistic or controversial," it's far from the only standard of clickbait. Another extremely common standard is "in the absence of news, make news about the absence." There's nothing wrong with this article, per se. I mean it...

To be clear, I was talking about one way someone could interpret the lore to represent. Neither I nor the printed lore present it as a standard of any kind.

Appreciate the responses. I think I remember a video that talked about warlocks kind of like, shopping around? Like reaching out to potential patrons, getting some small powers, before settling on a full patron-warlock relationship. I think that idea is not present in the written lore of the PHB...

But I'm curious where this issue originates. Was it in playtest material, where fluff and lore text can sometimes be excluded? But why does that matter when the version they stuck with and went to print explicitly does not say that?

This is what we've done more than once, and each was successful in terms of maintaining setting tone and such. Like we did an all-human Diablo game where one PC was an elf, the trance rest was just treated as a paranoid warrior's conditioning. A loxodon's trunk simply signified this warrior's...

While I certainly don't think a 3 in stats "doesn't matter," I do think this example shows that there is a big difference to how I think of these stats than you do. I just think there's more attention and importance given to these extremes than they actually warrant, simply because there's...

I think there's a significant flaw in comparing a monster statblock with Int 3 to a PC's Int 3, which is that you don't roll what can't be achievable. You roll when something is achievable* but not without risk or certainty. The Intelligence score/modifier is an incomplete measure of a...

Had a Paladin with a 3 Dex, which was very fun playing a character who would dive out of the way after the Fireball explosion clears. I'm currently playing this Druid/Wizard/Cleric multiclass with 18s in her Int and Wis, has +16 to most Int/Wis checks, and a +24 Arcana. She can boost those...

I'll often keep the bad results, long as the table itself is fine with it. I had a rogue PC whose only positive modifier was a +0 Dex, as an example of the worst roll I stuck with. An adventurer by circumstance, not by choice, who still had his share of wild successes. But I think there's...

Odyssey of the Dragonlords and . . . Oh, I'm forgetting the title but it basically was a follow-up to the older Baldur's Gate games that round out the other major works he's done, that I'm aware of.

No issue with mixing so far, though we largely switched to 2024. When the campaign ends and I start doing session zeroes for future games, we'll probably standardize what rules will come from which source. Like I want to use the 2014 Backgrounds, plus Tasha's ASI options, with 2024 species and...

I'm not sure if I agree with this or not, and it really boils down to if you're saying lore needs to be established for the  Dragonmarks or for the mechanics of a Dragonmark as it is applied outside of its usual lore. I do agree with the latter, in that I can't really wrap my head around not...

Assuming the best of both parties, or just at the very least that they're not each stereotypical caricatures, I would expect this DM to have a conversation about it. A DM who doesn't is waving their own red flag just like the player who hears and agrees to the setting and tone pitch waves their...

When I think of a circus troupe, it's a collection of individuals who are bright, colorful, eccentric in their movements and behavior, and generally each member fits that description while still being very unique to each other (the acrobat being unique to the strongman to the clown, etc.). But...