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Hey Folks, Though were only about halfway through the current campaign of The Session Tapes, I'm laying the groundwork for the next campaign, and I'm looking for some advice. I'm a bit burnt out on pure Fantasy, and was looking at doing a multi-century time jump into the future of my homebrew...

The vast majority of my recent Gamemastering has been in D&D 5th. It's a relatively functional system, but there are some things about it (and a lot of its descendant d20-based systems) which I'm really not keen on. The most egregious for me is "Armour Class". I've been able to forgive many...

Been doing some work with my setting... and I'm almost completely sold on scrapping the entire Chromatic/Metallic dragons idea. While I've never been a huge fan of "colour coded dragons", recently I've felt really stymied by the trope. The idea that players (whether intentionally metagaming or...

Okay, folks... here's a good discussion topic for you; Racial languages/religions/alignments. I personally really dislike the "homogenous" races idea which seems to be present in a lot of TTRPGs, (D&D in particular). The idea that an entire race follows the same pantheon or speaks the same...

Hey folks! I don't know if any of you are into actual-play D&D podcasts, but if you are, the group I run on Monday nights makes one called #TheSessionTapes! It's a 5E campaign in my homebrew world, which is a weird Frankenstein mashup of Colonial America, Iron-age Britain and Ireland, and the...

Religion. Like it or not, it’s an integral part of most fantasy settings; particularly those with the concept of divine magic. I’m curious to know, what approach do other worldbuilders take when dealing with interactions between the mortal and the divine? The way I see it, there are three...

Hi folks, Recently started a new D&D5E campaign, and we're just getting to the point where combat is imminent. Now I've run plenty of combat in 5E before, but I always use battlemaps or dungeon tiles and markers. This time, as I'm trying to run a more free-flow, narrative campaign, I was...