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I only ever run pre-written adventures if it's for an RPGA-type event, and I don't purchase them. I think I own exactly one issue of Dungeon, but have a huge pile of Dragon. I'm much more into tools, systems, and patterns as a DM. Something like "Try pairing up environments and monsters for...

Paizo is a business. If the money-paid demand is high enough they could do a cash-up-front Kickstarter, it just requires enough reward to outweigh the risk.

I was at 5 when the first packet came out. Did a whole bunch of design work in anticipation, with tens of thousands of words written. Between the drama, the spell-centric design, and the butchering of Planescape, I only really care for popcorn reasons. Now I play Pathfinder 2E, and the future...

The amount of harm is incredibly different. Please just do not do it. Equate it to something that does not frequently involve war crimes and other horrors.

Please do not equate marginalized human beings to marginalized board games.

Unless Magic Jar failed on PC Warforged they have always had souls.

Overall we need there to be a president who is motivates and able to advocate for the games and players as long term strategies that should not be sacrificed for short term stock bumps.

I'm hoping this gives them narrative leeway for lots of extra weird experimentation. Hurl that wall spaghetti.

Perhaps we could get a President of the Cross-trade.

I got a degree in English and moved from California to Washington in the doomed hope of doing RPG writing for a living and I've still always been happy to acknowledge that it's rules to make mashing pretend dolls together. The trick is to make sure you don't look down on activities just because...

The experience of playing someone who watched humans be born, live full lives, and die of old age before you were even considered an adult. The experience of being a person with the markings of the most powerful creatures in the world, your body naturally deadly and mystical, yet with all your...

You can replicate being tubby with equipment too.

Heck Santa Claus is known as a Jolly Old Elf, and he's the poster boy for jelly bellies.

Every species has dark vision, breath weapons, innate spells, free feats, medium size, luck, poison resistance, magic resistance, tails, horns, claws, and bites?

Remove to-hit from stats. It should just be a function of level. Stats should supplement skill, not determine it.

Fiction grants us many ways to engage in things which are not true. Sometimes we want to feel the satisfaction of being able to fight that which makes us suffer and sometimes we want to feel the relief of not having to deal with that which makes us suffer for once. Either is valid.

He was hoping to make the prime material work more like the Shadowfell, with eternal twilight rather than true darkness. That which died out could be made undead, but there would still be some light so not everything would die out. All would be plunged into a "sea of shadow".

Part of publishing material is setting the tone you want to impress on your audience. The audience can take that and alter it, but it's inherent to the process. It's especially vital for people who are new to all of this, and doubly so for those who struggle with creativity, as they won't be as...

WotC should generally be stopping at acknowledging a variety of relationships and moving on. Noting that sometimes Elminster invites Drizzt over for cuddles is fine, but we don't need an adventure to find the magic shackle key that fell out the tower one night and got eaten by a passing wyvern.

Both topics are extremely complicated and prone to emotional and trauma triggering and really not worth going into detail here unless we end up with a D&D adventure that explores these (WotC please don't).