Recent content by Paul Farquhar

“We demand a new thing. But it must be exactly the same as the old thing.”

More importantly, how do you order pizza?

Personally, I don’t think having a crashed spaceship would be very different from most D&D settings. I would go full Metamorphosis Alpha, and make the spaceship the setting. But not let the players know until they find a mysterious hatch. “The world is hollow and I have touched the sky.”

This is very Golarion.

I think Tom Jones deliberately leans into the predatory subtext, especially as he got older. It's satire, you are supposed to question it.

I overheard a cover of someone singing something from Muppet Christmas Carol. Don't know who the band was, but I'm surprised there isn't more of this. I guess Disney ruthlessly hunts down licence violators? Heard some choral renditions of traditional carols. So far no Wham!

The "very small numbers" approach works better than removing breath weapons. But damage resistance makes for a good plot point. There are several Dragonborn in RotFM because they have cold resistance, and the climate suits them. If a character has fire resistance, they are likely to be drawn to...

A setting needs to have some sort of centerism, human or otherwise. There will always be a dominant species. If there are others, they exist in small numbers, and define themselves relative to the dominant species.

I've seen a few gnomes, more than I have dwarves or elves in fact. Don't care for them myself though.

No it isn’t. I’ve told you before that halflings were the most popular PC race in my group, outnumbering humans. That was a few years ago though, and since then the halflings have themselves been outnumbered by warforged.

Sci fi puts them on different planets. No one is the Mos Eisley Cantina is from Mos Eisley.

Sitting down and singing of gold is a popular dwarf move.

If you think about the consequences, no D&D setting works, and it’s not possible to create one that does. The game runs on creative vaguery, player character exceptionalism and the willing suspension of disbelief. In other words, D&D works only because of a social contract to never deal with...

What do you mean? They are immune from bludgeoning damage taken when passing though low doorways.

In a sense - Dragonborn are very rare for a reason - so there is simply not enough of them that it’s possible to field units of breath weapon infantry. If you had a setting with a significant Dragonborn population you would either have to rule that most did not have breath weapons, or that they...