When I play games, I usually hoard consumables until the boss fight.

Oh, a dragon landed? Time to eat my 98 wheels of cheese. 🧀

But what if they expired?

You can use this Potion Expiration table to up the grittiness of your #dnd games—or give out consumables more often!
I'm looking forward to my players only ever finding pink cottage cheese labeled "potion of healing" in ancient treasure hoards. 😂

More seriously, putting a clock on things is a fun idea to churn the consumables.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) November 11, 2020

This idea almost comes across as someone that’s bordering on being an advisarial dungeon master. As long as the supply of consumables isn't overly constrained and you can be reasonably sure you're going to find more, you're incentivized to use them and not hoard.

The idea isn't to screw players, just give a little nudge to use the cool stuff they find.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) November 11, 2020

, I have a question you may be able to answer. Since I’m writing something githyanki themed, can you help explain where a gish falls in the githyanki hierarchy?1)
See Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes for 5e lore on the githyanki. A gish is a popular thing to be among gith, but where a particular gish individual stands in local gith society depends on their levels and personal…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 22, 2020

2)
…accomplishments, and where they stand in Vlaakith’s favor. (There are too many gish, and they vary too widely in experience and powers, to have one set place in the social pecking order.)#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 22, 2020

Artie Pavlov is staying home, and so should you! @Artie_Pavlov
Question about dragons
@TheEdVerse. If a dragon gets killed in her human shape. Does she revert back to her natural form? 1)
This is one of those queries that gets the infamous “It depends” answer. In this case, on the circumstances of the death. (Or the story needs of the DM/writer/game designer. ;} ) However, this is something that has come up in…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020

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…the home Realms campaign twice, and both times I as DM ruled the same way that (unbeknownst to me at the time) Gary Gygax had once answered such a query: yes, the dead dragon does revert at least partially (again, depending… 3)
…on the circumstances). So things could get interesting if space/volume or weight/mass are concerns. Reversion does occur past the point at which observers can tell at a glance this is NOT “just” a dead human (scales, etc.).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020

Can’t help but imagine a situation where a party slays a dragon in human form in a confined space, and then have to immediately rush out of there to avoid getting crushed by the reverting dragon. Yes! This has happened, in Realmsplay. The PCs knew to flee headlong; guards coming to arrest them did not, and ended up literally plastered all over the chamber walls. (Interesting shades of red still to be seen today.)#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020

What about song dragons? I’m wondering because it’s my impression that they don’t just assume a human form, but have one. What about druids in wild form? Dead druids return to their own form, and their bodies can be personally recognized, but retain traces of the form they died in (hue, feathers if any, scales or other skin covering).
Song dragons do have a human form; they stay in whatever form they were slain in.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020

Long before RPG theorists talked about gamist, narrativist, and simulationist attitudes, there were typologies that sorted players by their interest in simulation, competition, and so on, even in the wargaming community before D&D. https://t.co/4ROc5PY2EL #dnd #rpg #theory pic.twitter.com/oJLNm5XiFw

— Jon Peterson (@docetist) January 11, 2021

Bouncing off this:

I feel very strongly that the Forge replacement of RGFA (USEnet era) “Dramatism” with it’s own “Narrativism” made it a markedly worse tool for understanding modern streaming play, which is very *much* a Dramatist undertaking. Would be interested to hear that fleshed out more.

— Jon Peterson (@docetist) January 12, 2021

Mostly I was reacting to the “Threefold became GNS bit” by grumping a bit, but happy to unpack!

Okay, so Threefold and GNS agendas obviously *did* connect that way, but. They differ first in that GNS agenda is theoretically a group construction, spoken or not, while 3fold (+)Could be group or individual.

So, going from that, Narrativism is a group aesthetic ideal of "We're making story together", while Dramatism is "I/we are playing as *performance.*"

(+)

— Levi Kornelsen (@levikornelsen) January 12, 2021

And modern streaming… Often isn’t collaborative story-making any more than any other roleplay, but it IS play as performance. I see your point. 1980 Blacow is very much on the "group" note, in the sense that he is talking about the forms that campaigns take, not individual player attitudes. Others quickly applied his model to players, and then systems, naturally.

— Jon Peterson (@docetist) January 12, 2021