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[Snarf Zagyg]

Maybe you need to type them more slowly and loudly.

IMA GET A KEYBOARD WITH KEYS THAY ARE EACH SIX INCHES SQUARE SO I CAN PUNCH EACH LETTER INDIVIDUALLY!!!111!!!!

 

[MichaelSomething]

How about more Enworlders should run games on startplaying.com so that the masses can experience our superior judgement and quality of gaming?

 

[Hussar]

How about more Enworlders should run games on startplaying.com so that the masses can experience our superior judgement and quality of gaming?

Or more should start playing. That would be nice.

 

[Reynard]

It was better when games (and movies and comics etc) just came out and we had to/got to experience them as they were on release, without any of the hype or, worse yet, fan input or (not really) "playtesting."

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yeah. Dragonroar is simply not available in any electronic format (PDF or otherwise) which is why I mentioned it as an example.

It can definitely happen. I probably took a decade finding a PDF of Nexus: The Infinite City

 

[Tony Vargas]

The Martial/Caster Gap can be resolved with one simple change:
Remove slots.
Casters can still know/prepare spells, but can only cast them as rituals.
And they can use Cantrips, of course.
Should be fine.

 

[jdrakeh]

It can definitely happen. I probably took a decade finding a PDF of Nexus: The Infinite City

It's the Dragonroar cassette tape that's the real hard find. I've looked for over 20 years and not found any digital representation of it. That's why I'm tempted to open my box set and digitize it myself BUT, again, my box set is still in the original factory shrink from 1985. Not sure it's worth breaking that seal.

 

[Reynard]

The Martial/Caster Gap can be resolved with one simple change:
Remove slots.
Casters can still know/prepare spells, but can only cast them as rituals.
And they can use Cantrips, of course.
Should be fine.

But remove damage cantrips. Make wizards do something BESDIES combat, and then roles are different and it is then okay of "power levels are different.

This of course harms the rogue, but that is actually a good thing. That class doesn't really need to exist, and even if it does it absolutely shouldn't be the skill monkey + high damage dealer it has become. That's ridiculous and harmful to the game.

 

[Gradine]

5e's "caster supremacy" is so completely overblown, especially when compared to 3rd edition. Where it was still completely overblown.

 

[MGibster]

When employees are seen as expendable enough and turnover is high enough than companies also start to cut back on training, thrusting people into positions they aren't prepared enough for. And hey, it turns out, that service work is skilled labor.

This is one of those terms I feel is misunderstood as unskilled labor doesn't literally mean no skill. In the United States, unskilled labor is used to describe workers in positions that require very little training or experience for satisfactory performance. If I start working the grill at McDonald's on Monday, it will probably take me a few days before I can do the job to expectations. I won't be as good as Jerry who has been working the grill for two years, but I'll do it well enough to satisfy McDonald's business needs.

What employers have been finding out recently, is that workers in those unskilled positions are less willing to put up with a lot of the baloney associated with those jobs. For restaurant staff, they're often dealing with uncertain hours and pay in addition to unsavory working conditions with surly patrons. During COVID, a lot of people got it in their head that they don't have to put up with it. The paycheck just isn't worth the aggravation.