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Well, I'm not advocating for DMs, because I'm not buying into all the "us vs. them" stuff, but I freely admit I'll lay down an ultimatum when it comes to running a game: If I tell someone I'm in the mood to run a campaign using a particular set of rules, and they say they'd rather play in a...

I don't think I'd play with someone who's both an unaccommodating DM and an unaccommodating player. That's not someone who wants to play a cooperative game. That's someone who wants to tell a story to a passive audience.

The conversation in this thread has really helped me decide what to look for the next time I put together a gaming group. As a player, I think I'd prefer to play for DMs who have also been players for at least a few campaigns. As a DM, I think I'd prefer to run games for players who've also been...

Wouldn't a DM who wants to run a narrowly-focused campaign be more than happy to accommodate players who want to run an even more narrowly-focused campaign? DM: "I want to run a Conan-esque game where everyone's human." Player: "If I have to play a human, then you can't use any creature type...

Otiluke's Snowglobe of Everything confirmed!

I've been told Apple counts 9pm EST on Tuesday, December 23, as the start of Wednesday, December 24. Apparently, they use the Greenland time zone (?).

Also: Warforged druid = Beast Wars transformer

Seems reasonable.

If I had to roleplay that gungan, she'd have a refined British accent; she'd wear an old-timey monocle-and-top-hat combo; and she'd routinely make philosophical observations while sipping tea. The players' reactions will tell me how deeply they care about Star Wars setting lore, because...

Spellcasting. Does having a stat called Spellcasting make the game better? Probably not. But it means I never again have to read, "Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for X (choose when you select X)."

Ban starting ability scores above 12 (before bonuses from backgrounds)? Use point buy stat generation with 9 points instead of 27? I've never tried it, but I suspect it would make life a bit grittier for the PCs without needing to nerf specific features.

I'm taking a risk by playing a high-level fighter instead of a high-level wizard. Where's my reward? :p

To piggyback on what Leatherhead said, resources cited on the FR wiki identify goods that are imported and exported at various locations in the Realms. Using that information, you can break the journey into legs, each of which ends with the PCs unloading imports and picking up exports. This...

If only we could use more than 10% of our brains, we could understand the crop circles... Oh, wait.

Those are fairly close to what I was contemplating in the OP. Thanks for the links!

Pretty much what the thread title says. I know there are plenty of RPGs where you theoretically could play as ordinary people trying to survive a kaiju attack (or a natural disaster, an artillery bombardment, or some other mass casualty event). But are there any RPGs whose core rules are...

From what I understand, if the "expansion of space" is due to the cosmological constant term in Einstein's equations, the expansion of space can't happen in a gravitationally bound system. The equations describing a gravitationally bound system (one in which the distances between component parts...

Update: I've uploaded a newer version of the Forgotten Realms Travel Guide pdf to the DMs Guild. The new version of the file is about 10% larger than the original, but the labels on all the included maps are now twice as sharp as they were before. I figure the tradeoff was worth it, since I...

After this latest episode, I'm going to be doubly disappointed if this virus isn't the first step of an alien invasion, or at least a precursor to a second, more aggressively-minded virus. If that's not what's going on here, this hive mind makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective. It's...

That bold-faced rule you quoted has nothing to do with NPCs. It says PCs get a set of traits from their species. NPCs aren't PCs. If I learned to play D&D using the 2024 core rulebooks, I would have no reason to believe NPCs get species traits which don't appear in their 2024 stat blocks...