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You've got it backwards, although my "healed" typo could have given you the wrong impression. Look more closely at the specific words I used. Nobody on athas likes the current state of the world because it's a post apocapyptic hellscape and even further from the earlier ages than the world was...

That is also not answering the question or providing the clarification requested and is why I asked for specific examples & specific books. That's a critical clarification because it very much seems like you are weaving and bobbing around admitting that you are trying to say an updated darksun...

Yes, I read what you said in 958 where you opened with "Alot of the problem DS came in later product". That's the problem and what I was directly and explicitly asking you to backup because you seem to be relying on Internet wisdom summaries made with second and third hand descriptions of what...

Is any of what is actually printed in game books☆ worse than the kinds of stuff you can expect to find in the best selling monster f'r section of the book store where you find plots rooted in SA kidnapping mind control mind-rape & worse, or is this refering to a thirdhand description of a third...

A lot of folks who complain about it's "problematic" aspects ime tend to have little actual exposure to a setting so many years out of print. Ididn't expect it from him of all places but dndshorts did a great "I read darksun and..." Quick little review recently He leaves out or misses a couple...

That's a good point and we have a historical comparison to show as much Meanwhile bg3 had clips from the romance options in marketing promotional videos and I found a 2 hour 7 minute compilation of the romance options

I'm the first episode of pg13 rebel moon series there is a fascist evil empire sporting a barely modified version of the dress uniforms to a well known real world nation and slavery is treated so casually that an alien tries to buy one of the main characters from a second without even bothering...

I've tried a few times in my eberron games where the dragonmarked houses are a very big part of the world and it never really sticks. Ultimately the trouble with doing so in 5e is that the players have no reason for them to care enough for them to be remembered any more than the name of a...

Sun Wukong's golden banded staff Ruyi Jingu Bang is. It weighs 8tons and can shrink to the size of a needle or grow to colossal proportions. The monkey king from journey to the west or one of the many work of fiction that include him were likely some degree of inspiration for the name monkey...

Sounds like the 3.5 feat monkey grip but maybe a bit worse

Vas Flam Vas Flam Kal Ort Por Oh people knew. Those people were ignored in favor of the theater kid vision of play being missed if players would just play the game they envisioned. It's not an unusual problem when someone in charge has a vision & a dream or a they are an outsider with...

I wouldn't say that it's exclusively a thing where players are trained to behave a certain way online. The wow blood plague incident may have been amusing AF at the time when merchants were infecting low level players with a lethal plague, but it also provided a ton of great data that was...

Wise words: "The lesson of the virtuale ecology was to us that testing the game in house is an entirely inadequate test in contrast to the reality of being in the hands of players. Not only are players going to face &think about the experience differently than we do in house but by sheer...

I agree but think think that In 5e it's generally not so much of a case where the party hit an encounter so hard that they had to nova. Usually IME it's more of a case that the group is built around the concept of Nova first last and always because too many classes are designed to follow that...

No I am reading it, we disagree on a fundamental issue though. If one were to present a curve showing average games they would find a large number of the ones you describe as fairly typical games well into the upper fraction of that curve's upper fraction. The fact that your group felt the...

You are ignoring the point. When you level up every session or yso sometimes more than one level it's going to play out with an experience closer to how a normal group showing up to play a one shot of a particular dungeon than it would if that group was playing through with normal progression.

It doesn't matter if it's a one shot or not you play through a full hc adventure going 1-20 in a couple months but approach each session like a bunch of one shots because the end result is still going to be an experience that is very far outside the norm that is unlikely to provide much value...

The point I made about d&d online was not a GM simply saying that "you can't buy standard phb adventuring gear", it was about the GM providing the gold to buy dozens of consumable items healing potions and then shrugging it off when players decide to do so. I think that that very much leads...