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Now I'm imagining an epicurean campaign setting where the origin story of every Humanoid species other than Halfling is "Halfling that ate X." (It would be a world where Aasimar are the edge lords, not Tieflings, because Aasimar get their traits by killing and eating angels!)

Yep. That's what I was vaguely misremembering. The dragon-colored kobolds.

I haven't been following Pathfinder since the early days of its first edition. I do seem to recall Paizo leaning hard into the draconic nature of kobolds with dragonscale variants at one point. That probably subconsciously influenced my thinking about dragonborn and kobolds to some degree.

Hmm. Maybe kobolds as a group are becoming slowly more draconic over time. Early kobolds were dog-faced people. Modern kobolds are more dragon-like. And dragonborn are the next evolution of kobolds.

I was brainstorming ways to incorporate dragonborn into older D&D settings which don't currently include lore for dragonborn, and found myself wondering: What if dragonborn were just kobolds who tapped into their latent draconic ancestry? In other words, there's no separate dragonborn species...

I imagine a lot of DM/player drama could be avoided by asking everyone during session 0: "Do you consider a characters' class to be the "basic premise" of that character?" If different people at the table have different answers to that question, they might not be a good fit for one another in...

I'll concede I may have misinterpreted your prior posts and been ungenerous as a result. I got the impression you were referring to baseline warlock class features as "cool super powers" as a way to imply the gamist approach to the warlock class is cartoonish when compared to a narrativist or...

Close, but I'm fairly sure it's actually the Top Hat, in the bishop 4 square, with the 12 armies.

That's fair. Everyone should play at tables that support their own preferred play style. I, for example, don't want to play in a game where every warlock must hit the exact same narrative beats in every story, or where every possible plot hook must be on screen and relevant in every campaign. I...

So is it more or less moral to mind control someone if they're Daniel Craig? Hmm... :P

To expand on your point, I'll add some D&D-specific pedantry: "species" is used in the 1989 AD&D 2e Player's Handbook, page 29: "Before advancing to 2nd level, every ranger must select a species enemy. Typical enemies include giants, orcs, lizard men, trolls, or ghouls." Note that orcs are...

Fun with Trigonometry In recent decades, most official maps of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting include graphics indicating the scale involved. Often, the graphic on a given map is a ruler-like bar representing a certain distance in miles. Older maps sometimes omit this graphic, instead...

"In the grim, dark future, there is only customs enforcement."

Daggerheart doesn't do it, but you could create a similar system where skill and circumstance modifiers are applied directly to the Hope die. If your bonuses exceed your penalties, Hope is more likely to beat Fear, and vice versa.

Minor nitpick, but the Multiverse doesn't contain everything. It contains everything which exists. There's no guarantee any particular universe actually exists in the Multiverse. In fact, some possible universes can't exist in a Multiverse. Case in point: any possible universe with the property...

It been quite a few years, but if I remember correctly... The PCs who were rolling attacks for individual bullets used the combat skills of the PC firing the bullets. The two combatants were using perception and defensive combat skills to identify and avoid incoming bullet trajectories. I...

Somewhat off topic, your comment gives me an excuse to mention my favorite RPG combat of all time: A long time ago, I ran a one-shot inspired by The Matrix using some version of the FATE system. The rules let me use the same mechanics to resolve any conflict, regardless of the time scale...

Space navies are probably the wrong tool for attacking and defending planets. But if two planets are competing for resources in an asteroid belt, they're both going to want to send (unmanned) space navies to secure as many asteroids as possible. You can't secure a space rock with orbital...

Plus a city of (half-)orc merchants in Vaasa

100% agree. I did notice that Icewind Dale: Rime of the Forstmaiden says the leaders of the Many-Arrow tribe periodically unite the orcs of the Spine of the World under a single banner, sometimes leading them through times of great peace. So there's at least a small chance the new books will...