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I feel like pretty much every "fix" 5E "needs" is because of this. (I put that stuff in quotes because although it is how I feel, not everyone will agree, which of course is totally fine.)

I'm reminded of the scene in Eaters of the Dead (the movie), where two characters have a duel of sorts and one of them has multiple shields at hand, so that when the other (very big) guy breaks the first guy's shield with his blows the first guy just grabs another shield to keep fighting.

I like this idea a lot, considering how much time I spend online or in stores trying to decide between umpteen brands and types of toothpaste or a hundred other things. There's s big difference between a crappy backpack and one that might last you a lifetime.

I'm the "plan everything I can think of and then during the game realize the really important things I forgot to prep and then have a minor anxiety attack" GM.

I will be watching this thread with keen interest, and might even contribute actual thoughts!

The main thing I remember about 2E - I haven't played it since it was the current edition - is the layout of the core books. I mean... I think it introduced THACO? And skills?

Like I said, I get why folks feel that way about it, but... I think @chuckdee said it well a couple posts above.

The best way I've heard it described is that this movie feels flat. There's some really neat stuff in it, but there's not enough to underpin that stuff to give it the weight and impact it needs. I get why folks say that, but it bugs the heck out of me, because The Incredibles doesn't feel like...

"nameless things gnawing on the roots of the Earth" really stuck in my head. Right - he was not a novelist. He was a really good writer, but not a good novelist, but also had no interest in writing "a novel".

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter! 😅 I've been into lizard folk ever since this:

We probably have more than we need/use: Prime, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu, and Britbox. We also have Paramount+, but just for three months (so I can watch Star Trek: Strange New Worlds). We get D+, Max, and Hulu as a bundle, but we actually get Max free with our phone plan, too, which...

I think WOTC's dragonborn are "under-powered", in the sense that they don't have as many dragon-like features as I would like. I've been tempted to re-write the races/species, so that features evolve with age/level. This might allow for more features starting out, but maybe they'd be less...

I have no investment in FR per se, other than it's where most of WOTC's adventures take place there and my group has played through a numbe rof those. I've never read an FR novels and haven't played any D&D video games (which seem to mostly be set there as well)

I love this openess, and I'm going to bring this up with my group.