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50+ gamer her. I've never felt that WotC or the wider D&D culture has been hostile towards me in any way. Nor do I think my preferences and opinions should hold any more weight than any other consumer's or fan's.

I've never blocked anyone because I was offended. I can scroll past. I've also never blocked anyone because of personal attacks or debates that turned into arguments. I can just stop responding. If someone is abusive or egregiously breaking the rules of this site--that's what the report button...

I like "oblivious" the best. Clueless, unperceptive, literal-minded could all work, but "oblivious" just feels right.

I like to think that she, and the Gold Dragon on the cover, are the same character.

Well, to be fair, we never had to work very hard at being anti-cool. I think having a long break from the hobby and getting back into it when I had kids mellowed me out. I wasn't insufferable in the late 80s and very early 90s, as I generally kept my opinions to myself. But I remember being...

Sigh, I missed the period when the Forgotten Realms novels were huge and the oversaturation of Drizzt in the D&D scene. So, now I'm left as a sad old man who wants to play a dual-wielding drow ranger with a panther companion, yet am overly familiar with this being such a tired trope that is...

Having a huge gap in my TTRPG life (started in the early '80s, then stopped from 1990/91 until 2014/15) has left me: a 12-year olds wonder and simple joy over fantasy an adolescent's irreverent humor a 50+ years old's eye-rolling over folks taking this stuff too seriously

For me Greyhawk is a great example of a world given in broad strokes, filled with tidbits of lore, but more so, lots of tools (well, lots of tables) for DMs to create encounters and have a sandbox to throw in their own adventures. It was evocative enough to get your creative juices flowing...

Newbie fires up D&D Beyond's character generator.

Don't know, never heard of it. Time to hit Google.

Yeah, but that was scripted. Not really a live play. Still, its a cool artifact of early TSR-era D&D. I love that stirges featured prominently.

Chris Perkins did some live plays videos to teach how to play 4e, which spun off into some celebrity live plays, such as the live play with the Robot Chicken. Okay, I just looked it up, the podcast live play with Chris Perkins and the Penny Arcade folks, which became Acquisitions Incorporated...

Most of the things on the list are not things that I've had issues with, or are things I feel I can work around fairly easily. So I only chose three: Conflict due to player personalities/behaviors Conflict due to player psychological/medical issues Conflict in playstyles/preferences As a...

The opposite is true with my group. There is no way I can commit to the same day of the week/month and same time, and I'm the DM. Work and family obligations make keeping to a routine schedule very difficult for me and some of my players. When I put out my call for players a decade ago, I stated...

This is the way. I got my current group of players but putting out a call for players in a number of Meetup pages for local gamers. I gave a (perhaps overly detailed) pitch of my campaign world. I also gave character building options that would be allowed or not allowed. And I explained how I...

I still really enjoy D&D, but I'm finding combat much more engaging with Warhammer. I really requires players to pay attention. The crunch can be a bit much when playing pen and paper, but running it using Foundry is great. Takes out the more tedious calculations and look ups, and speeds up...