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Having rules to describe how being drunk affected our characters sure did seem more important before we were ourselves legally allowed to drink.

Huh? What genre wires are being mixed? D&D is fantasy. Romance and fantasy are a combination proven to sell incredibly well. WotC wants some of that BookTok money. What mixture? This seems to entirely fit within an extremely marketable lane.

I’m not calling you a bigot, I’m informing you that the language you’re using is actively used by bigots to covertly signal their ideological allegiance to each other. If you do so unintentionally, you’re liable to inadvertently welcome bigots into your social sphere while pushing the targets of...

This was one of the major problems with the surveys. Early on people would be thoughtful, critical, and honest in their feedback. Then, WotC scraps anything that didn’t get at least decent reception right off the bat, because the designers are on a deadline, and as @mearls has shared, past...

I mean, I wouldn’t call “cozy” an accusation. Cozy media has its place. Also, heads up, it’s generally more appropriate to write “trans women” as two words. I’m sure you didn’t intended it this way, but transwomen as a compound word is a lesser-known TERF dogwhistle.

Charisma saves are used to resist possession or otherwise having your personality supplanted (which is different than mind control, because reasons), and to resist forced teleportation or planar shifting. Not sure why they decided those things would be saved against with Charisma, but it is...

Just because they’re new doesn’t mean they aren’t above average in terms of optimization skill.

Unfortunately, society will find any excuse to put women in drawers and harass us. If it wasn’t this it’d be something else.

As with a lot of things, there’s a healthy balance. All body systems grow weak if they aren’t regularly stressed, and also constant stress is bad for all body systems. We need a mix of periods of stress and periods of rest to maintain optimal functionality. Which I’m sure you’re well aware of, I...

But, see, all of this? These are observations the average player isn’t going to pick up on. The fact that you can identify which saves are generally better to target, which saves a given monster is especially bad at, which saves are worst to fail at, and even the fact that control spells are...

They account for defenses. It’s just that they have to make some baseline assumptions, and the assumptions they make tend to try to replicate a party built with fairly average player skill. Highly optimized groups like yours aren’t going to match those assumptions, so CRs are likely to feel low...

The second draft was called the unity domain. The version that made it to print is called the peace domain.

It’s 3rd party, but Kinks and Cantrips by stellara books is quite good. And enough of it is usable in a non-explicit game that they were able to produce an SFW version - the curious explorer’s guide to bundheim.

Queer and nonbinary folks are wildly over-represented within the RPG fandom. (That is to say, the demographics of RPG fans have a much larger proportion of queer and NB people than the general population). Turns out, a leisure activity that explicitly encourages playing with identity is very...

On the subject of NB romance, the artwork shows one character with short hair and a stringed instrument, I’m guessing that’s the ex-lover the blurb describes as a bard. The other person in the art is presumably the main character. They are both pretty androgynous, but the bard appears more...

Those are the most popular, but there is a niche within the genre for queer and NB romances. I would bet the crossover between that niche and romantasy readers who play D&D is pretty high.

I would never describe inspiration as uncomfortable, no.

Media is the plural of medium. As in, the means of conveying a work of art. That a work may not necessarily be challenging doesn’t make it not art.