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I'm willing to fail. I'm just not comfortable pushing in front of everyone to fail on a communal turn unless the thing I'm attempting is...

The two games I've played a substantial amount of that use metacurrency ubiquitously are Daggerheart and Star Trek Adventures. I'm not...

There are zero chickens inside that bottle. It is full of plastic miniature replicas of chickens.

I think in the case of Gentleman Broncos the creators don't really want to say it's a Krull homage, because the scene in question is the...

If you were going to make a cyclops via make-up, what other way would you do it? Having the actors' eyes concealed in the wrinkles seems...

Well, our videos aren't "tapes" anymore and our "desktop" is virtual. Etc.

On the subject of Arnold being too old I'm reminded of the fact that when they filmed the original Commando there is a scene where John...

Yeah, I think the script really needs to lean into the fact that Conan is old here, and he’s King - he doesn’t have to be the guy...

I think hit point bloat is one of the original sins of 5e, and sadly undermines the bounded accuracy which is one of my favorite design...

I love 5e -- it has a lot going for it as a player and as a DM. But the other thread anticipating 6e got me thinking seriously about...

I think if it's something a new player, not knowing the rules, is likely to think their character should be able to try doing in these...

It shouldn't break anything. I think having a major class ability be an extra feat right out the gate sort of robs the class of a prime...

Okay, well that's almost true. What I'll come right out and say is that I didn't want any changes to anything that wasn't actually...

Yeah, hard disagree on everything there, because all the things you seem to have considered bugs in the 2014 version are to me either...

5.5 is a series of marginal or obvious improvements alongside numerous arbitrary changes for change's sake with no clear guiding design...