Recent content by Remathilis

Part of that issue is that D&D is crap at onboarding new players in the Lore of D&D. D&D has no fixed world to explain the world with. You read the PHB about elves and you an very basic idea of what an elf is, but not a lot on how they fit into the world. Even 3e (which gave us info on religion...

Side question to all this: are we only worried about the 10 PHB species or do we also want tabaxi nations, haregon villages, and the Triton population of Waterdeep?

The wizard class is already right there...

Can I take a second to point out that the Ten Towns lore has been recycled three times (Legacy, Rime, and now Adventures in Faerun) and people have griped about that, and yet when they go and change things people gripe about that too?

Unless you are paying me to play in your game, I'm there to have fun. Good luck finding those hardcore players.

I have found my players, as time and work and family have become more and more important, have greatly paired back their time outside of game. Probably the only two who do any sort of outside prep are both also DMs. The amount of prep most of them do now consists of remembering to bring their...

I agree with the cure, but not the diagnosis. If anything, the "weird" doesn't come out of political correctness, but by a adherence to traditionalism. They want the Tolkien-inspired mentality of humans asecendant, demi-humans (elves, dwarves, gnomes and halflings) in decline or a minority...

The trick is that the player needs to know when to be serious and when to be goofy. I'm not against comedy, but too many players think they're in a bad parody movie of D&D rather than an actual D&D game.

I guess genasi fill that role, but I think it would have been neat to see undines, sylphs, gnomes, and salamandars fill the "lesser elemental" PC species niche.

And here is where "D&D's no defined setting" becomes a huge issue. WotC itself currently supports almost a dozen official settings, and with 3pp and homebrew DMs the setting possibilities are infinite. Unless the player is willing to do homework (and few are, some barely do the research...

Most of the joke characters either settle down into something more manageable OR they get bored of the joke and the character disappears somehow. Mind you, when I'm talking joke characters, I'm talking ones that have one gimmick and that's all they do. For example, a lizardfolk chef who could...

Bad players are not a new phenomenon. "I am playing a psionic awakened glass of orange juice and I will scream if you try to stop me" seems much more recent. That's what I'm referring to. I've seen plenty of players who do not grasp the intricacies of the DMs setting or want to play a specific...

You know, it's funny I've never heard about these entitled snowflake players until maybe the last few years and almost always in the context of this board. I'm not disputing anyone's lived experience, but I seriously question if it's as endemic as the Internet would have you believe.

The plural of anecdote is not data. But I will point out a trend that I cannot prove, but tends to be the root of most of these horror stories: Non-dedicated groups tend to run the wackiest, most balls-out stuff possible. Every one of your examples tells me that you were finding the same kind of...

Do you mean Legendary as in "back in Legends" or Planeswalkers?