WotC WotC announces D&D Community Advisory Group

[dreamwisp]

for real...

sits in the corner, watching dejectedly

 

[bedir than]

sits in the corner, watching dejectedly

JENNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dreamwisp]

JENNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!

Hello!!!

 

[The Sigil]

• Donna Ricci (she/her) - Owner of Geeky Teas & Games. Enjoys bad board games, good video games, Terry Pratchett novels, cats, advocating for mental health, and hitting people with boffer weapons. Future Londoner.

I've stopped by Geeky Teas & Games several times. Fun little place, and good to see FLGS representation in the Council. Donna, if you read this, say "hi" to Mister President for me!

 

[Donna Ricci]

• Donna Ricci (she/her) - Owner of Geeky Teas & Games. Enjoys bad board games, good video games, Terry Pratchett novels, cats, advocating for mental health, and hitting people with boffer weapons. Future Londoner.

I've stopped by Geeky Teas & Games several times. Fun little place, and good to see FLGS representation in the Council. Donna, if you read this, say "hi" to Mister President for me!

In typical cat fashion, he just looked at me as if to say "if you don't have a treat, I don't have time for this".

If you haven't seen the place lately, we've grown and would love for you to pop in again <3

 

[BruceWright]

• Sliding into an tangent in the conversation to say that Donna's store is the ttrpg equivalent to Powell's Bookstore in Portland... a destination worth a visit just to see and play. LOVE THIS STORE!
  
  Pop Quiz, which of these things does Geeky Teas NOT have:
  
  Over 20 themed game rooms
  Stage and Event Space
  Pinball
  Assortment of British Snacks
  Podcast Studio
  Its own line of custom-blended nerd-culture themed teas
  Cat Rescue and Adoption
  Cliff Divers and Dinner Show
  Alien-themed Ductwork for Cats
  Giant Alien Insect
  Free Parking
  

 

[darjr]

• Sliding into an tangent in the conversation to say that Donna's store is the ttrpg equivalent to Powell's Bookstore in Portland... a destination worth a visit just to see and play. LOVE THIS STORE!
  
  Pop Quiz, which of these things does Geeky Teas NOT have:
  
  Over 20 themed game rooms
  Stage and Event Space
  Pinball
  Assortment of British Snacks
  Podcast Studio
  Its own line of custom-blended nerd-culture themed teas
  Cat Rescue and Adoption
  Cliff Divers and Dinner Show
  Alien-themed Ductwork for Cats
  Giant Alien Insect
  Free Parking

I’m going to be in Portland!

Do they host FreeRPGDay?

 

[BruceWright]

Powells is in Portland Donna's store is in Burbank CA.

But when in Portland, visit Mox Boarding House!

 

[mamba]

What makes the distinction of mechanical step up individually or as a broad subsystem super relevant is that we are talking about Ravenloft rather than generic kitchen sink forgotten realms

presumably I want to play D&D with some form of horror mixed in, not a different game, so there certainly are limits to how far your subsystems can / should go.

I am also not sure it needs subsystems so much as narrative. A fear or insanity subsystem is always a bit suspect to me in D&D, you cannot tell the player to be afraid because their fear score crossed some threshold, at least imo

We have plenty of generic monsters for generic kitchen sink fr baselines.

we also have plenty of horror genre monsters in the MM without them having different mechanics. Ravenloft just expands that list.

If there are any mechanics, it would be around the darklords I guess. That might be a decent idea, for ‘generic’ monsters I am less sure

Check out the 3.0 Ravenloft book for what is probably an even better example of how adding & changing mechanics can support the gm by mechanically carrying themes and tone than some of the oldschool darksun books that gave rewrites to a bunch of core stuff.

would have to check 3e, as to Dark Sun, they could have just as easily kept it on the regular 2e ruleset. It made sense to refluff the player side (reframe races, add new ones, add new (sub)classes, adjust the item list), but beyond that (attribute range, …)? Anything beyond that can be handled in the narrative

 

[Staffan]

Well, they used to. Though it isn’t WotCs fault that fell apart.

Commander used to be handled at arm's length from Wizards of the Coast, with a stand-alone Rules Council and an advisory group to them. After the Rules Council made a controversial ban decision, certain people took that way too seriously and started harassing them, to the point where some got death threats. At that point, they didn't want to do that anymore and handed control of the format over to Wizards who instituted the current Advisory Group.