D&D 5E (2024) After my players tried to break it, we discovered that the new half-race rules are hilarious and terrible.

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Even before the UA came out, An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby and An Elf and An Orc Had a Little Baby 2 were among the most popular titles on DMs Guild. I suspect WotC figures the fanpro community and third party publishers have this covered.

 

[Remathilis]

Probably just won't t touch it with a ten foot pole.

Even before the UA came out, An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby and An Elf and An Orc Had a Little Baby 2 were among the most popular titles on DMs Guild. I suspect WotC figures the fanpro community and third party publishers have this covered.

This is my honest belief. They will let some 3pp touch that rail.

 

[Clint_L]

I dunno...I read the thread title but then the first post just gave examples that seemed kind of awesome and easy to interpret for a story.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

This is why we need DMs.

The answer to you your flatulence/firebreath weapon after your dwarf gets drunk and lights it is “no.”

Or you rolled a ‘1’ and don’t want to know the outcome.

Yes the rules need to be good guardrails but we need empowered DMs not matter the rules set.

Okay. So someone thinks something is fun. They are playing a game to have fun. They try to do the thing that they think is fun. For whatever reason, you don't agree that it's fun and that their fun thing is going to ruin your experience somehow. So instead of discussing it with this other person and trying to reach a compromise, you shut it down and upset this other person because you happen to be the GM and you think what you want is more important than what someone else wants. This makes your life better how exactly?

 

[Cadence]

The answer to you your flatulence/firebreath weapon after your dwarf gets drunk and lights it is “no.”

Okay. So someone thinks something is fun. They are playing a game to have fun. They try to do the thing that they think is fun. For whatever reason, you don't agree that it's fun and that their fun thing is going to ruin your experience somehow. So instead of discussing it with this other person and trying to reach a compromise, you shut it down and upset this other person because you happen to be the GM and you think what you want is more important than what someone else wants. This makes your life better how exactly?

I was assuming in Warpiglet's game that lighting one's farts on fire as an attack doesn't fit the feel of the game as laid out in session 0 or as expressed in any of the play up to that point - because I would have assumed Warpiglet would have tried to discuss it with them or reach a compromise if it seemed like something vaguely plausible in the game.

If it's been a "serious" S&S game or high fantasy game or whatnot, I'm not exactly sure what the compromise is for farting out fire or (as in another thread talking about a book by a famous D&D creator) having the teenage girl shooting out breast energy blasts.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I was assuming in Warpiglet's game that lighting one's farts on fire as an attack doesn't fit the feel of the game as laid out in session 0 or as expressed in any of the play up to that point - because I would have assumed Warpiglet would have tried to discuss it with them or reach a compromise if it seemed like something vaguely plausible in the game.

That may all be true, but that's not how the post in question was expressed.

 

[Cadence]

That may all be true, but that's not how the post in question was expressed.

I was just having trouble picturing anyone I've ever played any (non-Toon) RPG with anywhere seriously wanting an arm-flapping flight ability or the flame-thrower-fart ability.

And so maybe that's why I didn't just jump to assuming warpiglet was trying to be a domineering DM who wouldn't have looked quizzically at the character and asked "really" and then discussed it with them if they looked confused or like they seriously thought it fit the game. That feels like the kind of benefit of the doubt I'd extend to most folks on here until they proved otherwise.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I was just having trouble picturing anyone I've ever played any (non-Toon) RPG with anywhere seriously wanting an arm-flapping flight ability or the flame-thrower-fart ability.

And so maybe that's why I didn't just jump to assuming warpiglet was trying to be a domineering DM who wouldn't have looked quizzically at the character and asked "really" and then discussed it with them if they looked confused or like they seriously thought it fit the game. That feels like the kind of benefit of the doubt I'd extend to most folks on here until they proved otherwise.

I understand that you're trying to be empathetic and I appreciate people like you in the world. But re-read the post in question; it feels like in this case you are trying to conjure empathy where it isn't deserved, in the name of avoiding a confrontation. My view is that sometimes you have to face things instead of going around them. If I'm off base, I'd like this warpiglet person to explain themselves. If they don't, that's fine too... this isn't an issue that anyone's going to lose sleep over.

 

[Cadence]

... this isn't an issue that anyone's going to lose sleep over.

Well, to be literal, I'm currently on here to avoid doing a few chores I don't want to do before I can go to bed, so...

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Well, to be literal, I'm currently on here to avoid doing a few chores I don't want to do before I can go to bed, so...

I came back from Las Vegas last night and 'enjoyed' several nights of 2 or 3 hours of sleep (Vegas is a fun place!). I'm here because of insomnia...