Patchwork Newsletter (Vol 2, Issue 32)

Welcome to this week’s newsletter! Popular posts on the blog this week were Dungeon, Inc., A First Review, The Destined Heroes Playstyle, Dolmenwood Resources for You, Running Red Dragon’s Tale and Prepping Myths in Mythic Bastionland. Table of Contents Discord discussionsBlog posts to readProjects to bookmark and downloadArrivals Chez PaladinProjects I’m working onPlay ReportsPoem Discord discussions We had a long discussion on the Sly Flourish discord (in the 5e channel) about why you might or might not ban things in your game. There were several threads to the discussion: banning a specific spell or feat; not allowing books past one or two; or banning character options. Several people could not understand the point of banning, it seemed to them to be a kind of random intrusion into the players’ choices. GMs who ban mostly cited thematics, and fitting the setting. Others were consistently irritated by certain aspects of the game (for example, in 5e, there are some DMs who really…