When you’re playing #DnD do you prefer talk about your character in 1st person or 3rd person? Why?

(I find myself switching without meaning to sometimes) I speak in 1st person, and describe actions usually in 3rd, but probably slip into 1st a bunch.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) August 6, 2020

D&D is a conversation. It's a conversation between DMs and players and between you and our design team. Your passionate feedback helps us see what's working and what isn't. We built 5th edition through such dialog, and we're improving the game through it too. Thank you! 💖

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) June 26, 2020

A question for #dnd DMs and adventure creators. What do you think about tasks that have no chance of failure and are just about HOW the players do it and not IF? Example: stealing an item with the DM instructed to allow it as long as there is sufficient effort. It has a place in the game. I think it's a great tool for exploration and travel. You know the characters are going to get from point A to point B. The question is, what shape will they be in when they get there, and what stories will they have to tell?

— Shawn Merwin, dreaming of the frigid cold (@shawnmerwin) August 5, 2020

I’m running a Wildemount adventure rn and one of my PCs said “You act like the hottest thing since sliced bread” to another PC and it begs the question:

Has sliced bread been invented in Wildemount yet? Ha! If you think it should have been, then make that call! Decide which culture you think would be responsible for that culinary leap. 😉

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 27, 2020

I'm so glad this is finally here, long after it should have been. My hope for the Realms is that it will take the setting away from historical "borrowings" (always lazy design) into different, newly-crafted cultures with vibrant lives and characteristics of their own.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 22, 2020

Racism, sexism, and class snobbery all fade before better roleplaying when players are immersed in fantastic settings where the lives, views, and aspirations of kenku and thaalud are as detailed and pertinent as those of humans, and stereotypes are not truth.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 22, 2020

If the drow have a sort of "moral renaissance", I think that would be awesome, and I'm especially excited for what that might entail for Lolth and the Seldarine, but please don't redact the lore and stories I grew up with and love. Make it a progressive thing, not retroactive.

— Astrudai (@astrudai) June 22, 2020

The "standing Realms rule" is: rules/edition/real-world changes don't change established lore; "what came before" is still the history of the Realms.
As it should be; if we erase or rewrite the past, we learn nothing, and past achievements and strivings are nothing.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 23, 2020

What if I told you, much like #TTRPG warlock patrons not needing to be evil, clerics don’t automatically have to be religious?

I said what I said. Ayep. There is no requirement for a cleric to serve a deity, or maintain any kind of pious relationship or behavior at all in 5e.

That’s intentional.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020

Do you subtract divine intervention from them then? It specifically refers to an appeal to your deity to intervene. Nope. Sidebar in Xanathar’s covers that nit pick.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 17, 2020

Thoros is the absolute perfect example.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020

Kashaw from Critical Role campaign 1 is also a great example.

He’s empowered by a divine being, but holy SHIT does he not want to be. Doesn’t matter. He was chosen, the power given, and that’s that. He can avoid doing her will as much as he wants, his spells still work.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020

The last 2 clerics I played weren’t religious. One was a social climber who found the church’s framework useful. The gods gave THEM power because they too, were useful.
The other was a reluctant acolyte. One of my favorite villain templates is the high priest of a good deity doing terrible things, but is still legitimately a powerful high priest of that good deity.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020

Nice explanation of how they don’t work, but then how do they work? Just asking for a friend 🙂 They work exactly as written in their entry in the Player’s Handbook. Pact struck, character is now a warlock, done.

Anything more is up to us playing the game to play around with.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020