Posts with this tag are D&D games. Typically, these are 5th Ed.
This entry is going to be heavy in stream-of-consciousness writing. I will try as hard as I can to get keep this readable. The recent revelations of long-standing issues and their impact at Wizards have left us all a bit of a wreck. Partly because we treat companies like people but also because of nostalgia… Read more A Word on WotC
With all of the discourse around trying to pick a system – D&D or otherwise – to tell a particular story, I’ll take a story I’ve worked on refining for the last three years. The story of Of Hand and Heart (OHAH). I’ve chronicled different things about the story and the journey it’s been here,… Read more Deconstructing OHAH
With events at Wizards and Hasbro being what they are, more than a few people have opted to move away from Dungeons & Dragons as their primary material for creating games and are looking to other systems. This is a good thing and means more options for experiences in the space. They are also asking… Read more Tabletop System Exodus Advocate OR Say What You Want, but Don’t Be Ableist…
Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. Praxis may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) One of the things that I find to be true across my experiences in tabletop discourse is that while there are a lot… Read more Community Praxis
Sure, there are probably ways to create stat blocks for various lesser gods and quasi-deities and the powers they might have, the challenges they might present, and so on, but I think battle and puzzles might be a bit too narrow of a focus for an “epic level” campaign.
When it comes to the concept of alignment in D&D, there’s quite a bit of contention. Specifically about whether the system is good or useful for describing characters in the world. Let’s have a wee bit of review of what that chart generally looks like: This grid was created with the intent of describing the… Read more Of Laws & Morals
Today in, “Hm, I don’t know about this one…” Reading this on FB had me wrinkle an eyebrow. In particular, a response of “Because I haven’t seen one yet.” to which I replied “No idea if this was sarcasm, but there’s a lot of accuracy to this statement, so I’ll borrow and extend. The idea… Read more Rolls, Roles, & Roleplay
So one day I wrote: As a follow-up to: Because: A Word on Archetype Dungeons and Dragons is fantasy in a medieval time period as a default setting. There are others, but this is the general world this is set in. This same setting would also have included the times that things like the crusades… Read more Of Faith & Deity
My musings on the lore of tabletop games have led me to yet another tweet and related discourse when it comes to kobolds. According to the lore of Dungeons and Dragons, kobolds are… well, let’s have a look… I’ll start here: racial monoliths are trash. I’ve mentioned this before and I will continue to as… Read more Good Kobold Bois
Along the streets of the market, you look for a shop to trade some items you’ve collected for some items you need. Along the way, you run into some elf somewhere who runs a market stall. Herein does the DM start to describe them. You pick up a piece of fruit and head on your… Read more Racism as Plot Sign
