There's a number of questions for various systems. More popular systems have more questions. Doesn't make them any more or less valued to their respective fans.
@Draupadi exactly. When it's easy to get an answer on the publisher/other community's site there isn't a need to come here. Although even some healthy communities benefit from here just to get away from the forum noise
I should really spend the rest of my evening prepping a bit for a session with my nephews tomorrow, but I feel more like uncapping a drink and relaxing
Perhaps the drink will inspire me to greater DnD heights, lol
@Cat One of the best GMs I've ever worked with did no prep at all; he was a maths guy with fifteen years' experience in 3.5, who could run all the NPCs on gut-level "how they should be" in his head, and his plots were pretty free-range.
I had ten pages of notes and halfway through the first page, the PCs walked away from my plot to save people from burning buildings and urinate on the mayor's doorstep.
@Draupadi Not really. They've got several other settings (Eberron, FR, Dark Sun), and the whole thrust of PoL is that it's very mushy and you can turn it whatever direction you want.
The PoL background material is deliberately contradictory to emphasis that it's a backdrop for the GM's world, not a replacement.
[shrug] I prefer my own settings, where I can make the world conform to be the best storytelling environment for my players' needs. I ran with some settings lawyers early on who were constantly telling me I was wrong about my world. I soured on that fast.
If a player makes it explicitly clear that he's okay with the death of his wizard because he has a backup samurai he's equally interested in playing, and I think the samurai will be more interesting for the story, is it acceptable to load for bear against the wizard?
And does the fact that the samurai is a goblin make it any better?
@MadMAxJr I did once run a campaign where the multiverse was falling apart to the point where any d20-compatible PC was accepted (with final DM approval, of course). Balance was... not something that campaign considered important.
