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It wouldn't interesting to have a setting in which a traditional fantasy realm has been impacted by explicit sci fi influences. So, for example, you'd have your traditional mountain / forest / city people with their proto-European medieval settlements and conflicts. But then your have a fourth...

I always liked the idea that Xorn don't see meat-based beings as intelligent, so taking treasure from them is essentially mining.

I don't watch or listen to Critical Role (I just don't have the time!) but I'm very interested in this season because I've always wanted to run a game like this. How are they scheduling the different tables? Are they running three games a week or are people playing once every three weeks?

Micah I say this with complete sincerity and no ill will: I think it's time to let it go. I feel like I've seen you post this same sentiment for years now, and the reality hasn't changed. WotC will always target the audience they think will make them the most money while producing the game they...

The best steak I ever had was slow-aged beef cooked rare. It was like eating meat butter, but not as disgusting as that sounds! That said, the last time I ordered a steak at a restaurant was over 3 years ago (right before I moved to Atlanta). And I never cook beef at home. So steak is a rare...

Weird is an apt description of that one! Edit: also I'm sure it's already a recognized trope, but Keats is always referenced whenever the supernatural and creative comes together! Keats was referenced a lot in the Hyperion series and in a few sci fi / fantasy books about vampires and such.

This is a really fun idea! I'm going to just do heroes of mine who are not longer with us. Jim Henson Ursula K LeGuin Italo Calvino Jack Kirby

I know it's purely anecdotal but this matches my experiences! I've made both long-term (20+ years) friendships and new friendships (< 1 year) through the hobby. I have a friend who met his wife through our group. D&D definitely helped me get through the ongoing trauma of Covid!

I think this movie would look 100% better if, instead of being trapped in a chair, Chris Pratt was in a VR court room where he and a bunch of AI lawyers and jurors could play out the trial. It would still be cheesy as heck, but it would be a lot more fun! "Well I may be just a humble...

The two-parter is peak Star Trek to me.

What a neat idea for a thread. In my experiences of both running and playing 5e, this is how I would rank the usefulness of the skills: 1) Perception 2) Persuasion 3) Stealth 4) Insight 5) Acrobatics These are the five skills that get used pretty much every session. Perception is used so often...

In my own little system each character has three Near Deaths. They check one off when they reach 0 HP. Each Near Death grants a different bonus: Inspiring: You tell unconscious and everyone else gets a bunch of temporary hit points. Heroic: Before you fall unconscious you can make one last...

An interesting twist on this might be: Between adventures, your characters don't have Plot Armor Points (or whatever you want to call them). Only when they take on a quest do they get a number of Plot Armor Points equal to the challenge of the quest. So they might get 25 points for an easy...

Three sentences??? What luxury. I've boiled my writing down to one single sentence: As you peer through the narrow, stone-lined doorway, jostling each other for a prime position to see with your two eyes (except for Bronwick who, as we all know, lost his eye in the previous adventure to the...

Thinking about it more, I feel like this could be used in a campaign that's all about achieving a very specific goal. Rather than a loop of play, which matches the current rules of healing every night, this would be like one big countdown timer. Can the characters stop the BBEG, find the...

I love the idea! My gut reaction is that it would turn every single hit into a big deal, because even a 1 HP stab from a goblin means you're that much closer to death. I've got some other ideas but this is a really fun idea.

The one thing I wish they'd explained is why all the Changelings look like Odo, when Odo is attempting to look like the scientist who raised him. I wish they'd thrown in at least a brief explanation of "we took on this form to try and convince you to stay" or something.

I say turn it from a punishment into a reward. When a character rolls a 1 on a Weapon Attack or Spell Attack, they can choose to break their weapon or spell focus and reroll. If they hit, it counts as a critical hit.

I think this is totally reasonable, but it's not answering the OP's question about how to use Charisma to find a secret door.

A character is climbing a wall. They search for good handholds and pull themselves up deftly. Did they use Strength or Dexterity to climb? Or maybe Wisdom to search out the handholds? Or Constitution as they take their time holding on? The abilities all bleed into each other. The OP asked for...