Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Which doesn’t make it useless, the people who respond are likely to be well qualified to comment on mechanical issues, but woefully out of touch when it comes to thematic aspects. The more time required to complete the survey, the more you select in favour of very hardcore players.

The person I know who is a Forth Wing fan is a boomer, I don’t think the readership is necessary young. But the older D&D players tend to skew male, since the game wasn’t marketed to girls back then. Making the book not-spicy probably reflects Hasbro’s “don’t do anything to disturb the parents”...

Half giants from Dark Sun.

Exceptional is anything away from the centre of the normal distribution. I’m exceptionally weak myself. Really, no it doesn’t. Wookiees aren’t survival of the fittest Spartans.

The sad thing is, straight males are not allowed to have emotions (aside from anger and hubris).

I suspect he is bald and wrinkly, the same as the rest of us.

A PC Wookiee can be weak, because PCs are exceptional. (And when it comes to survival, smarts beats strength in any case).

There are small wookiees, you see a couple in Solo. And if you want to play a big strong Wookiee, there is nothing stopping you. You are only going to have 8 strength because you chose to do so.

Since racial stats have been abolished, there is no reason not to play a Wookiee in 5e.

Aside from some shifters, D&D seems a bit shy of anthropomorphic dogs. Wolves are rather more common. Traveller’s vargr often seem to be more doglike than wolflike though. Chewbacca, of course, is an anthropomorphic dog, with fierce loyalty being top personality trait.

Indeed, since it plays it straight (rather than comedy hiding serious allegory, which is harder), although the obvious one is Narnia. But I have no problem with anthropomorphic animals in long term campaigns. My current campaign has two, along with a warforged and a gith (who replaced a zombie)...

This is why I hate video. I’m not going to devote 47m to something I could read in 10.

I don’t normally find it so, no. And that’s true even when I aim to make the audience uncomfortable.

You don’t need to “get it right”. Every table’s version of a setting is unique to that table. The point is to avoid the sense of exclusive ownership, and wasting time creating stuff that the players aren’t interested in.

But you can pick one off the peg, thus avoiding the proprietorial sense of DM ownership of the world. Even better if it’s something the players are familiar with from other media.