Recent content by Incenjucar

The current year is 2025. Attention spans have changed since the 1970s. Many players are not, themselves, entertaining to watch play for hours on end. I've basically had the scene happen in PF. My whip-and-sword rogue/bard pulled out a cantrip that shoots a metal projectile on their first turn...

They've been closer to the ogre/troll/giant category, if anything, for a long time. Ogrillans (orc/ogre hybrids) are from 1E.

I'm a fan of the track methods and the like. A solo might escape Force Cage but be slowed, etc. Enough focus fire of hard control should eventually land, but it's dull to one-shot a boss without any special planning. When I ran 4E games I converted all monster stuns to daze+something to avoid...

While it's not quite the same, my online RP (heavily inspired by D&D, V:TM, etc.) led to a fair amount of in-person, sometimes inter-continental romance and other friendships. My actual in-person TTRPG experience has given me whole friend groups, some friendships so close that one of my former...

Cheaper than Seattle, and we're drowning in tech companies. Main reason I'm not in Quebec myself is that they treat their nurses horribly and I was looking to move with one once upon a time.

For non-completionist consumers, a deluge of books is great because there's a better selection, but the ROI is harder to justify. I am very glad to have existed through the bad-at-capitalism days, but it's understandable that those are over.

What barriers do you imagine exist? We Americans work internationally just fine. I've trained people in China, Japan, and India without issue. Why is talking to default bilingual people who are closer to the US than North California is to South California a barrier?

I am going to assume they are at least moderately compotent. Multilingual support is generally only difficult if bad faith is involved, or if someone just really cannot use the internet. English being secondary is hardly an issue. Much of the world knows English, including most of Quebec. BG3...

Montreal is a nice place with a lot of game devs and the benefit of being less bogged down by English-centric culture (more perspectives!), so hey if you're going to give it a go not a bad place for it.

PF2E allows anyone to wear armor just fine.

Casters frequently use control rather than damage. Simply conjuring a rock can end an encounter.

Vodyanoi could be terrifying. Aquatic umberhulks.

Cave Siren Calls people to swim through flooded caverns with the lie that there is air on the far side.

The only long-term brand tie-ins I'm aware of for D&D is in Idle Champions, with Acq. Inc. characters and.... Nerds. The candy.

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