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[Maxperson]

I think it doesn't help that spellcasting is so reliable. Think about how many people were disappointed by the ranger's autosuccess in certain conditions power - actually, if I'm playing a ranger, I want more mechanical interaction with wilderness survival, not less. Wizards should be wrestling with unknowable forces at great personal peril to cast their spells, not just clicking Ctrl-Alt-Delete and executing a macro.

I'm all for that. You'd have to jack up the power of spells considerably to make up for all the lost spell slots and combat rounds that will come with the failure chance.

 

[MichaelSomething]

I think it doesn't help that spellcasting is so reliable. Think about how many people were disappointed by the ranger's autosuccess in certain conditions power - actually, if I'm playing a ranger, I want more mechanical interaction with wilderness survival, not less. Wizards should be wrestling with unknowable forces at great personal peril to cast their spells, not just clicking Ctrl-Alt-Delete and executing a macro.

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[Hussar]

It's actually pretty good.

The trick is to clear your mind of expectations. Don't order the curry in the UK, and expect it to be like the curry you might get in India or Japan or anywhere else. It won't be. Let it be UK curry...let it be its own thing, like Creole or "Tex-Mex," here in the states.

Ugh. Curry in Japan is gross. Sludge poured on white rice. Blech.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The trick is to clear your mind of expectations. Don't order the curry in the UK, and expect it to be like the curry you might get in India or Japan or anywhere else. It won't be. Let it be UK curry...let it be its own thing, like Creole or "Tex-Mex," here in the states.

Every cuisine, exported to foreign lands, becomes adapted to those foreign palates.

When I lived in Stuttgart, Germany, there was a Chinese restaurant around the corner from where they hosted the Christkindlmarket in December. They had a WONDERFUL spring roll the size of a Tex-Mex chimichanga. I have never seen anything like it since. I’ve even asked my Asian buddies- they’ve never heard of such a thing, either.

 

[Jd Smith1]

I still maintain that the British Empire was largely driven by everyone trying to find something better to eat.

If that were true, the French would have been unstoppable.

 

[Maxperson]

You might be right about most of TSR-era D&D, except of course all the mass combat rules, minis wargames, stacks of dedicated monster books, monsters in most of the other books, all the modules with even more monsters...I mean, hell...even the gods in TSR-era D&D have AC, hit points, and damage. It's a totally normal thing to give your gods hit points. Makes perfect sense. Nope, not because they're designed to be fought. Couldn't be that. Definitely not a combat game.

Even if we ignored all that (which is silly to ignore), you're still dead wrong about WotC-era D&D.

No he's not. Even 3e was about 1/3 combat, 1/3 exploration and 1/3 social. It just went high hog on rules for everything, so the already big TSR combat section became even more bloated. That didn't make it the most important thing in the game, though. Not even close.

 

[Maxperson]

Me too! Remember when Red Lobster was a somewhat fancy restaurant you went to on your birthday or some other special occasion? Most Mexican food in the United States is Tex-Mex which doesn't typically include fish or other seafood. But like you, I didn't have Mexican seafood until sometime within the last 5-8 years. Which is weird because, as you point out, Mexico has two very long coasts.

I'm lucky enough to live in Los Angeles, so it's pretty easy to find authentic Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, etc. places to eat. Whenever I move, I always scout out the best places within a few blocks of me.

 

[Maxperson]

So, two places separated by how many miles? In one of America’s biggest metropolitan areas With a huge Hispanic population and relatively close to the coast?

That’s not exactly “not rare”.

That probably puts LA at the bleeding edge of introducing Central & South American seafood to the USA…which shouldn’t be a surprise, all things considered.

Quite a few miles. Close to 100. Santa Barbara isn't in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

 

[Maxperson]

Make wizards throw darts again!

I could probably run on that platform.

 

[Lanefan]

Enworlders should rule D&D like the elite rule over society. We are the best at judging what should or should not be in D&D!

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