Recent content by payn

I’m not playing this game with you. D&D is a complex game that folks with decades of experience often forget. It can take years for folks to master a single character in a game with high levels folks often never achieve. Adding a necessity to work in concert with other characters adds to that...

There is so much assumption here and discounting of others I don’t really know how to respond. I think you have a precise idea what you want but not a very good understanding of anyone else.

I prefer milestone but if I’m in a game using xp I prefer by the adventure or even by session end. I don’t care for minute xp awards like x for picking a lock, y for talking to somebody, and z for killing something. Over the years I found xp distracts from the larger picture and bogs the game...

It’s not about demands it’s about folks being so casual they can barely get their own character to function let alone everyone else’s. Despite all the charops discussions a lot of people have steep learning curves to the game. The default is so the most casuals can succeed in the game.

3E level 20 (not a fan) PF1 routinely level 14 5E level 20 (not bad at all)

There is the reward angle and then there is the expected to angle. Lot of folks bounced off 4E because the expectation was to group optimize, sort of like some folks are bouncing off PF2 for the same reason. 5E doesn't require it, but makes the game work better with it, becasue its aiming for a...

The bookkeeping of xp is about as fun as tracking ammo, water skins, and food supplies of old school D&D. Milestone and never looked back.

It was also worth it for mad max Strickland.

Going by my standard 4 hour session, I voted 5-6. I imagine it like thus, 1 session to 2, 2 sessions to 3, 3 sessions to 4. It might make a difference if its face to face or VTT. I get vastly more done on VTT than I do f2f. I get way more done if im the GM in either. By "done" I mean move the...

Back in May Jax was getting shots for his bad hip. It really gave him some quality of life for his last several months. Several years ago he tore an acl in his hind leg. He was less mobile despite recovering well. After he started getting the shots he was jumping up on the couch again! He even...