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For sure. I'm not going to argue that it's necessary or best practices, but if you're going to insist on "fair dice" as an umpire-- and I'm speaking as an umpire-- mercy for players that lose the lottery is admirable, and kneecapping players who "win" by the rules you established is inexcusable...

It's "funny". Characters with extremely low stats are good comic relief, right?

Yeah. I've rolled a handful of 6s over the years, but never a 3. One time, on 4d6k3, I managed to roll a character whose high score was an 8, literally unplayable, because it didn't qualify for any player class. Instead of giving me a mulligan, the DM bumped the 8 to a 9, so I could qualify for...

Misread this at first! While we're talking about the  sportsmanship of players who want to roll stats as long as they always roll above average-- and my preference for high stats not withstanding, I agree-- can we talk about the DMs that want to insist on random rolls, insist on players rolling...

Problem is, I generally want to play my inner gonzo idiot with really strong senses and inhuman determination. In my experience, the correlation between willpower and common sense with high Wisdom is the inverse of real life. I feel like the disconnect between this sentiment and...

This is true, and people say it a lot, but it's not true in the sense that people say it. Character flaws make characters interesting. Foibles, blindspots. Things that cause characters to make mistakes and errors in judgement, things that make them imperfect human beings. The sort of thing, in...

This was always the endgame and the real threat.

It's a human size/shape robot with a hard shell, like a Star Wars droid. All the advantages of a digital mind and mechanical combat chassis, but No Can Magic. (Unless the Yes Can Magic rule is being used; player didn't want it.) Like the musk cat, it's from Phantasy Star.

My current group is a dragonborn, a musk cat, a CAST, and three humans.

Unlike a lot of other "theorycraft" gamer jargon, I don't feel like "immersion" means whatever the person saying it wants it to mean in the the context of the current argument. I feel like I understand what other people mean when they say it. I can agree or disagree with how other gamers seek...

Mashed, with ricotta and spinach, stuffed into an otherwise innocuous-looking meatloaf. Diced, seasoned, and pan-friend with a white onion and a green apple.

Dutch Blues. The color is  shocking when someone discovers it in the middle of their meatloaf.

(Being pissy? Fine. 20 page necro? Fine. 20 page necro to be pissy? Pass. Sorry, folks.)

No, but I sure wish there was. There's a ton of great  xianxia TV series on Netflix, so just grab one and imagine the setting's more Spelljammer or Dragonstar. Or pick up the Phantasy Star core rulebook and your favorite DM's Guild version of Dragon Fist or Tome of Battle.

My go-tos are pretty much always modern/urban xianxia and space xianxia, but D&D 2014/2024 is  really not my preferred system for modern settings. I'll admit to seeing what this dev team can do with a brand-new setting, and I'm open to just about anything as long as the new setting matches the...

Yeah, exactly this. The OT is full of these, the PT made them worse and invented new ones--prequels always do--but this show managed to unscrew a lot of pregnant lightbulbs. A rare example of a prequel not just being good, but making the preceding material better. I don't want to praise it too...

And then they will weep, for they will have no more envelopes left to push. Nerds destroy their own fun.

Yeah. And... like, those totally are tropes, but they're not the only tropes. They weren't even the only tropes when they were the ones Tolkien used for reasons in his work. They're not at all present in Narnia-- which would make a dooope D&D setting with the serial numbers filed off, like...

See and raise, @Richards: Caesar: hnnnn. NO! One of the sequels to the prequels. Doc Holliday: "I'm your huckleberry." Wanda Maximoff: "You took everything from me." Thanos: "I don't even know who you are." Wanda: "You will." Seriously, in a franchise that has all three of the good Hannibals...

Another fun one is that everyone has to have a different archetype of the same class.