Recent content by prabe

First: We are of course dealing here with tastes and preferences--whatever everyone around a given table is cool with is cool for that table. Second: I think different people will have different minima, and I think even the same person might want different minima in different contexts--what...

Seems to me it's more about how much--and what--information about a given spell is enough to make reasonable decisions about, say, trying to find it. I don't think anyone has said the DM should share all the spells; I think people have said that if you give information that some non-standard...

I have said it before: Writing like someone else (even if that just means "not like yourself") is not a skill most people have.

In principle, I have no problem with telling the players what source/s I'm pulling 3pp material from. In practice I often don't know what 3pp spell/s I'm going to place before I do so, so I'm not sure what the player/s would gain. Also, some of my sources include spells that I'd likely hard nope...

I wonder how you'd react to the rules in my homebrew games: Players can choose spells freely from the PHB and Xanathar's; spells from elsewhere may show up as treasures--either scrolls or spellbooks. Spells in spellbooks are there for wizards, there are rules in the PHB for handling those...

If you're just going to persistently misunderstand that person, maybe you should just block them and spare your brain cells the effort. Lord knows, they need the break.

Because it was a specific example pointed at when they said they didn't like pineapples on their pizza, and the new menu was made with placating long-time customers very much in mind.

The answers you need are to questions you do not seem to be asking--and chances are that no one here is qualified to give them.

My experience with (seasoned) cast iron was that the seasoning always failed. Every. Single. Time. The (enameled) cast iron I have and use these days is from Le Creuset (wedding gift) and that stuff is awesome (but that's not entirely relevant, here).

Still on something like my rhythm, so the last three books: One by One by Ruth Ware, a pretty conventional thriller novel by someone who's probably read too much Dame Agatha, lots of cheating going on, here; Icarus by Deon Meyer, a police procedural set in South Africa, lots of local slang and...

If some new pizza joint describes their pizza using a word, do you think it's more likely they're using that word the way people who haven't studied pizza use it, or the way some Pizza Genius on the Internet used it more than a decade ago?

Smugly pretending you don't understand what people mean, and continuing to talk at them when they've told you outright they're not interested: That's a great look.

I've heard decent things about Hero Forge's standees--but if you need the 3D-ness, that'll still be lacking.

The category is almost certainly at least slightly different, but board games are coming with more and more elaborate miniatures--more both in terms of numbers and elaborateness--especially the ones with Kickstarter campaigns. Maybe there's more expectation that a given table is only going to...

I think the most I've been surprised by a recent Scalzi book was when I started book one of a trilogy not knowing it was book one of a trilogy. It came clear well before I was through the book that there were arcs not ending in that volume. (Not the way I prefer to deal with planned trilogies...