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(The trailer was nice and flavorful but I stand by my points that without clarification it would just raise more AI questions) You're making the setting for 5e and Dragonbane, that's cool! Is there a challenge in designing for both? I'm guessing this is a setting you've been running at home...

I did check the project page for any AI usage disclosures and didn't see any, but the trailer begged the question. I think it'd be helpful if that were addressed, because it's the first thing that came to mind when I watched the trailer. You're going to get those questions, so it's probably best...

How much AI is used here? Is the trailer AI? Is the song AI? Is the art AI? Is the writing AI?

I've been on your Discord server for a while, y'all give some real love to Dark Sun!

A TTRPG system is a lot more than just the dice you use. Some don't even use dice. That's not even addressing the differences that CAN exist between systems that use different dice... cuz again, a TTRPG system is a lot more than the dice used.

This makes me think of the old encounter tables and the No. of Monsters Encountered under a MM entry.. except instead of "number of bugbears encountered at once," it's something like "upon encountering, this spellcaster would have already expended 4d12% of their total spell levels from previous...

Do note that there's a big difference between level 4 and level 5. 5 is one of the big power jump levels. Extra attacks, 3rd level spells, whatever other extras.. it's a biggie.

Yeah I can see why you'd ask that- it sounds like the biggest reasons would be 1. knowing that it's a thing at all, and 2. organizing it. The accuser needs to have 6 other people willing to risk their lives as well. In the post-show interviews they said that Aerion pulling that out was his way...

What's railroading to me as a player? "OK it feels like this noble hiring us for the job isn't on the up and up- can I ask around town to see if he has a history of screwing over people that take jobs for him?" "No, you accepted the quest so you need to go do that. You leave in the morning. The...

Which Warcraft has a tinker class?

Yup! It probably took the nerf a little too far? Especially since cantrips were made so potent as to keep pace with martials' attacks... it seems a little counter to the mission statement.

Since we're talking about origins of DnD media.. I have a recent one to share: The King of Elfland's Daughter. Been listening to a lot of Loot the Body recently: Which tickled a memory: hey, DCC has King of Elfland as a patron- didn't they have an adventure with that title? Nope, it's the...

Dwarves being greedy and having dragon-sickness isn't specifically a Tolkien thing- if we look at old folkore we see some real origin story stuff for dwarf greed and dragon-sickness Fáfnir - Wikipedia Fafnir was a dwarf who killed his own family, stole their ?magic? ring and treasure hoard...

Can you elaborate on the question? Because just not having the Great Wheel planes wouldn't discount aasimar and tieflings. My setting doesn't use the great wheel, but it does have Saints and Harrows, servants of the two primary gods. People worship those saints n harrows; aasimar come about...

Oh ha I did not see this since I don't use most of the '24 stuff unless a player requests it. Yeah you are spot-on, wow. Either they thought players would be confused because druids had circles and paladins had oaths, or they just wanted to genericize them all to the same term for other reasons.