Recent content by Scott Christian

We do not discover entire societies with a culture, language, etc. In a world where teleportation, flying (flying airships too), clairvoyance, etc. exists, I would be hard pressed to say, "Oh look, there are ten new species, each with a kingdom, language, and culture that just happened to be...

No offense, but if this was a world I had played in quite a bit, and the setting wasn't standard Forgotten Realms, I would say no to the ten extra species. It would be a very hard "no" too. If I had travelled the lands, experienced the cultures, gained an understanding of economy and kingdoms...

Yeah, I have always used game stores as a place meet other players. I have moved quite a bit in my life (Florida, Alaska, Texas, California, Illinois, Virginia), and that is the best place, in my opinion, to meet players. Work is also a good place. My present group is a mixture. Four of us were...

I uploaded my own ruleset and lore into Gemini and asked it to run a solo adventure using those rules and the provided lore/cultures/monsters. It did pretty well, although there were times it would take liberties with the lore. (It put in a sandspeeder from the Star Wars universe into my...

Just so you know, I keep hearing people say they have too many players or there is a waitlist. Where do those players come from? In my example, that is just one way they enter the game. You can reshape it however you want. Player #2 invites one of his friends to try out the game, or the group...

I left it open ended on purpose. There may or may not be a reason other than the DM only has those three books, and they want to run what they know. Or maybe there is a deep and elaborate reason. Does it matter?

The reason I stated the premise like this is because in my experience that is generally how new people are brought into a group. Basically an established player meets or knows someone that wants to play, there is an opening in the campaign (like starting a new campaign or a great spot to enter a...

All right, how about we try anew to see where everyone is at. Let's all close our eyes and pretend... You meet someone at a game store. Guy says: "Hey, I am new here. I play D&D." Girl says: "Oh, cool. You know, we are starting a new campaign and need a player." Guy says: "That's sounds...

Shhhh... That is a bad word. It was part of a HUGE debate in 2014 when it came to species ASIs. And even though it was referenced specifically from the PHB, people hated it. ;)

Who in here said they don't allow a race that actually exists in their world, especially a friendly race. If they did, I think they are wrong. Now, if the lizard folk are cursed carnivores that are under the control of an ancient evil god who insists they eat human meat once a wekk, and the DM...

Please, dig them up. I do not think they exist. No. The DM pitched the campaign. The players accepted to have a look. Session zero had the DM outline the dos and don'ts. The player immediately jumped to the don't side. Most DMs have lore as to why they say no. (And I said this before, if they...

If we have a session zero, I heard the pitch from the DM, and the DM said, "All elves are dead. They've been dead for a thousand years. But everything else is on the table." And I say, "I want to play a wood elf?" I would certainly expect the DM to question why. Same thing if they banned the...

I agree with you. But my gut still tells me their adventure path would be set up differently. And again, it is all hypothetical. I could be really wrong. But it is my guess.

See how you say "it's not massively preplanned." See how the other side is saying: It took a lot of work and tons of preplanning. Which one should have to compromise? As for your question, I would expect an answer. A conversation to happen between to people who want to game together. One has...

I agree with that. Although I have never seen someone on here state the how part. In the end, everyone has limits. Just because one DM's limits are more restrictive than another's, does not make them wrong. It doesn't make in inflexible. It doesn't mean they can't compromise. It doesn't mean any...