Recent content by Benji

Another major distinction to make is between a person using an example to make a point (eating meat as an analogy for publishing) and dissecting the example as if it is the thing up for debate, thus actually not discussing the original issue. A distinction you appear to have missed.

I have no problems with pdfs. Or things I can download and print out. But if its like a lot of the fifth Ed stuff they did post dragonlance where it is just on beyond on a Web page and it does everything it can to make me gabe to have beyond open and running while I am at the table, it's just...

Content I can only access online and cannot export from beyond in a digital only format rather than in a book at my table? Referred to as DLC? In the coming years I will remember this as the moment I truly tapped out of thinking if I am gonna bother with the new edition.

True, but it is them who send me PR that promises products. So I'm choosing to be grumpy at them, flawed though it may be.

Yeah but for those us hoping for those stalenhag/ Cy_borg/walking dead content despite reassurances there would be additional releases, your picture seems to be lacking a few entries.

Seriously? Like running a dnd combat has anything to do with real military tactics. In your military experience how many dragons did you face? Psionic abilities? Zombies? If this was even pitched as realistic simulation game, you Might have a leg to stand on. But it isn't. It's a rules set...

It's no surprise that in superhero RPGs , the villain books are the equivalent to the monster manual. But like any foe book, eventually you can end up spoiled for choice. So with the release of Rogues Gallery by Green Ronin marking the fifth Mutants & Masterminds book to feature over twenty...

In this, you've cleared up the last bit of my understanding on your viewpoint. I can now see not only see how you run a game but also why you do it that way. It's been a really interesting discussion and while it might not change the way I choose to DM, it has totally justified your standpoint...

I guess so, but I'm trying to think about how 'who gets to roll dice' translates to a feeling of agency. Also, the probability of the group spotting in the second example is not only reliant on the GM rolling well, but the players in opposition to that roll. So if the GM rolls badl but the...

Ok, thanks for clarifying, the mistake in interpretation is likely mine. In that case, I'd disagree because I'd hate to be dm'ed by someone who stopped the action/play regularly to consult sage advice rather than just making a decision on the fly. But I'm aware that's a taste thing.

Wait, earlier you were saying it's sage advices way or no way. This is ashifting of that position. You used ot be able to ring up Gary Gygax. His advice seemed to be universally always 'What did/would you do? That seems fine.'

Right, I have an example. It has numbers and it's quite long but it serves to demonstrate my concerns with this. I'd like to say I think you're right some of this is just taste and framing but here's where I think it can become problematic. SO hang on with me and I think you'll see where I am...

Knights of the Dinner Table is a parody. This is a parody of a certain type of gamer. Can you guess who falls under that type here?

I actually feel that in providing the answers to the examples I have given, you've clarified your playstyle for me: I understand you rpoint of view now and have found it more favourable than I thought. But this example means that you never use an actual skill check for players who are...

Mainly through observation of players. They value those distinctions, so I play to them. I'd say that there probably isn't any support for it in the D&D rules - but also the rules as written get an effective challenge ratings very wrong, so I don't hold that much stock in them -that's sort of...