Formerly Misty-Escape

UPDATE: her Venmo got flagged (🙃) but her ko-fi works!!!

Uma Musume style horsegirls introduced to the Forgotten Realms; setting's lore revised so that they've always been there.

Advancement rules now stipulate per-session XP bonus based on lifetime D&D Beyond purchase history.

Compendium of exclusive feat trees for specific gender and sexual identities. Bisexuality receives no feats of its own, being mechanically implemented as "half gay"; the resulting synergies are disgusting.

Editorial error in revised Dungeon Master's Guide accidentally refers to Dungeon Masters as Hasbro's employees.

"Noble savage" coding of barbarian class walked back, refocused on European folkloric touchstones such as the Ulster Cycle; all barbarian characters become Irish stereotypes.

AI-based DM service trained exclusively on work of Ed Greenwood launched; withdrawn a week later citing "guiderail issues".

Expanded discussion of navigating player expectations frames "not showing up at all" as a valid playstyle.

A lot of D&D5e defenders on here like to claim that asking someone to learn a new system is "gatekeeping" somehow, but I'd argue that acting like one game is emblematic of the entire medium to the exclusion of people who don't click with that one game is way more meaningfully a form of gatekeeping, even if it's fully unintentional.

Hasbro is fucking lying.

Their game does one very specific thing in an extremely specific way, and are exploiting unpaid game designers to sell the illusion otherwise.

I would say that I find a lot of the deep rules aggravating. I would rather narrate combat organically than calculate movements and actions and such. Rules are necessary for sure but I think there is a point where there are far too many rules to manage. In the D&D games I’ve been involved in we usually ignore half of the rules anyway.

In terms of story arc, I like a lot of the classic tropes: hunting for a lost magical item, chasing the Big Bad Guy down, dealing with cults or warlords, and so on. I’m not into TTRPG romances or royalty-oriented stories in general. I sort of like the small group on the improbable quest.

Dungeon World is a spin on the classic fantasy adventure setting that uses the popular rules-lite Powered by the Apocalypse game engine. A different system that uses DW as a base, Stonetop, has been getting some attention lately for it's unique and interesting spin on the fantasy genre.

Spire the City Must Fall is a pretty cool, subversive take on a lot of the usual fantasy setting political dynamics and it's sister game Heart: The City Beneath presents a very cool narratively-constructed spin on the concept of a doomed dungeon crawl journey.

Finally, I will note that if you aren't enjoying d&d combat, that might be because you don't like ttrpg combat in general, but it also might be because you don't enjoy d&d's specific approach to combat. Pathfinder does have a pretty crunchy combat system that a lot of people do find more satisfying than d&d's, but I'm personally more partial to Draw Steel's approach to tactical fantasy combat that moves fast and lets every turn feel a bit more impactful and varied.

A lot of D&D5e defenders on here like to claim that asking someone to learn a new system is "gatekeeping" somehow, but I'd argue that acting like one game is emblematic of the entire medium to the exclusion of people who don't click with that one game is way more meaningfully a form of gatekeeping, even if it's fully unintentional.

Hasbro is fucking lying.

Their game does one very specific thing in an extremely specific way, and are exploiting unpaid game designers to sell the illusion otherwise.

Is Archeops gping to land on her arm like a hawk? If so, how heavy is it. Can't be too-

My mother is still in the ICU, and her condition is getting worse.

I am terrified that my next update won't be asking for help.

My mother is still in the ICU, fighting for her life. We still need $200 TODAY for her treatment.

Just 10 people donating $20 can make this happen.

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