This is what I was thinking as well. It is nice to see everyone is showing up and being good players. Maybe paying for it means you are more invested and want to be with others like this.
Is it similar to a convention? I'm not sure. People pay cash for a 4 hour slot and the DM is expected...
And here I am just highlighting words and hitting the button for italics. If I'm feeling frisky, I might use the control and I keys on the keyboard to make italics.
I know nothing about actual coding though.
Part of the problem with races other than human is that there are no players that are non-human. We cannot really understand the mind and customs of elves and dwarves, let along a plant or frog. We might take what we read and see on elves and mix it with Spock and add a few funny things to...
I do not mind having the more dark ages or medieval world or even the more renaissance feel like other worlds. I would like to see something that makes it different or have a spin not really seen.
Combining all the 5e races, classes and books to make the world will be the big problem to...
First and still is D&D.
First adventure we all died. I recall a gate dropping down and splitting the party with gnolls coming and killing half of us and then the other half.
I think the best memory was when I ran the Under Illifarn campaign back in 86/87 when it came out. I remember...
Perhaps a mix of science and heresy. Most may have started out with the expectation that science explains things only to run into walls and tests that barred exploration. When they mixed the science with the old tests they found that inner power that they lusted for.
It is also a main reason why people take the background and feats when making a character. What can you do for me and do I get Perception and Investigation along with Magic Initiative feat.
Might be more a game thing.
I would think that most people worship the gods they we raised on when a child. This might make a profession more useful than the PC class. I also see that as a fighter or something, praying to a god that does that thing might help today over worshipping the farmer god of your youth. But...