Colville suggests that starting in a tavern is a chance to show off the setting in a microcosm. Put folks there that represent various factions or attitudes prevalent in the setting. When I ran a Savage Pathfinder game and had my players start in a tavern, I had some incurious off-duty town guards, the dillettante son of the mayor. I couldn’t figure out a way to work in the diabolist church (I set my game in Cheliax), but I did have a choice of several “first jobs” for them to take.

Me too, I backed the project but I’m not on the Patreon, so I gotta wait for my packet, lol. But if James was right in the last Q&A they posted to the YouTube, it should be out sometime next month!

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What does that mean?!

POODLE WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!!

Shadowrun has entered the chat.

The “Help” action is so lackluster in D&D 5. I appreciate that it exists that IS certainly a step up. But you do nothing with your turn (not very exciting), and your friend has Advantage, which helps, but if I had a nickel for every time I failed a roll with Advantage, I could probably buy a new copy of the PHB.

(Only a small part of why my game of choice is something completely different.)

Yes! 😆

Wait… 😟

Nooo! 😭

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this before but it makes me chuckle every time.

My wife once played a Wizard with the Hermit background, and decided that the “secret she knew” was that she was a character in a game. She would periodically make references to older rule sets. Yes, THAC0 was name-dropped.