Recent content by Bri

Never read it (or don't remember) If he invented the 9 alignments ok, but I would give libertarians credit for their 2d political scale Tolkien I said was black hat/white hat, with some I'm not on anyone's side because no one is on my side of the Ents and the complete drop out of elves in...

No!!!!! Christopher was so good with the estate. Responsible for all the posthumous publishing. He wrote about how he edited, mostly making very hard decisions on which of the many versions to publish. He hated the movie so much for twisting the story, that he never allowed another. The...

Going to have to totally disagree. Huge difference between a story of redemption compared to a morally ambiguous, irredeemable, and lovable character like Vampire LeState. This is a new art form. Probably invented by Gone with the Wind, with the absolutely irredeemable Scarlet and Rhett...

Exactly. Wish is very hard to DM. My opinion is that you should always create some kinda curse to balance. If a PC can wish, then so can a boss mob. Make yourself more powerful and it's up to the DM to make sure they learn the meaning of the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for".

I saw Star Wars in drive in when I was 8 and it was EVERYTHING. We played lightsaber with broomsticks. First real novel I tried to read was Splinter in Mind's Eye, the first Star Wars novel. Read Hobbit in 7th grade and it became EVERYTHING. Read everything Tolkien ever wrote and everything...

While you could, philosophically best to avoid. Things like elevation and cover... What it really does is increase range. High ground advantage is not that it's easier to hit from above, but plain you can hit them and they can't hit you. You can move downhill much faster than they can move...

There can be plenty of modifiers, but they are used to pre calculate the combat bonuses. They only have to be recalculated when something changes like a weapon swap etc. Things like parry, dodge skills factored in to defense bonus Rarely changes during combat, although it can, a Slow spell...

I think just the opposite. Opposed rolls can simplify the game, and unload work for the DM. Each character has attributes, attack bonus, defense bonus, damage roll, absorption roll... These calculated by each player. Checked by DM and rarely changes except when you get new equipment, level...

I think that's a different issue, save inflation. Yeah on every attack, you gotta roll if dodged. If parry. Save for fire on damage shield. Etc etc etc

I think it's a choice based on what kinda game you want to play. Death should always have consequences. You can always play it like EQ. Naked corpse runs. End up having to hire a necro to summon your corpse. So in a wipe out, just invent situation like a wandering necro happened to find...

Wyvern: Etymology Viper-bird (from Old English) Aka snake bird. Anhinga. Same morphology. Look like Loch Ness monster swimming.

I think what we think of today as dragons in the Hollywood sense is modern and heavily influenced by dinosaur sCiEnCe! They grew a lot. They seem to be something more lion sized, where it was reasonable St. George could slay one as in all the sculptures. Until one day they are the size of...

The original Greek dragon (and the monster that the word came from) was a sea monster and had flippers. Many think the "modern" dragon originally was Typhon, who was a winged sphinx like thing with a dragon tail. Zeus defeated him making him king of the gods. The most powerful monster in...