Queercoding villains to make them seem dangerous and deviant to the people of the time (and those that are still stuck in that time). Admittedly, the people making that decision probably weren't conscious of that being why they thought eyeliner made him look villainous.
"Try more games" is great advice, and it's always good to expand your horizons, but at some point it stopped being actual advice and became the catchphrase of people who just can't handle the idea that someone would choose to play D&D.
Babe turns around and starts recking them too
Great filters are strictly hypothetical anyway.
Need a wizard with a gun going Counterspell This you filthy casual
Misses the oldest and most effective way of making gold valuable...give them a big project to invest it in. Traditionally, this was building your own vast castle and lording it over the serfs, but it can also be as humble as stocking the Save the Orphanage fund or as grand as becoming Pirate King.
Makes sense to me. Why would Hasbro sell the only part of their company making any money? It would be corporate suicide.
Keep it on-topic. This is not the place for flamewars about exactly how bad China's human rights abuses are.
But also, wouldn't you like to buy some of our paid mods?
Perhaps that's why they tend to refer to them as crypts.
I do not recommend this one. Did it by accident once and one of the players was really upset I'd just wasted so much of his time :/ He still ribs me about it occasionally years later.
I used this, btw. It was great, they killed one of my players and he came back as a Shade, he's a ghost pirate now.
She's a sex pest though, worse than Barclay.
The best DMs are a treasure; they can make anything fun.
I think "good" systems (from a DM's perspective anyway) are the ones that make that job take a the minimum amount of effort; If I need a monster, I can make a statblock, but if the system includes a monster manual that has it for me, I can spend that prep time on some other encounter. Likewise, having just enough lore, such that I can grab elements and inspiration, but not so much that I have to exhaustively research it, is a huge benefit.
From a player's perspective, I guess my priorities would be a system that isn't actively frustrating to use, and one that I can have a pretty good understanding of the likelihood of whether any particular choice will succeed or fail. Doesn't have to be perfect knowledge, just so long as I have the chance to make a meaningful decision between my options.
See, I think I have a lot of that in my games, but it's an undocumented duty of the DM. D&D can be very stand-and-deliver if you're doing theatre of the mind combat without much scene-setting, but it also becomes very tactical and/or swashbuckling if you describe the area in detail. Or, even better, use visual aids like a battle map. It really all comes down to: the players can't swing from the chandelier if they don't know there's a chandelier.
In 3.5 at least, if you're in a space that isn't big enough for you to change size, RAW you just...don't.
The funniest part of this is the last panel. Why is DS9 moving at warp get down from there
"Yes, that would completely bypass the dungeon I spent the last 2 months building. So I guess uh...I take 1d6 psychic damage and we'll move on."
Captains are actually fully autonomous, admirals just exist to make sure they feel like cool badass maverick rebels.