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"Most of my hair has already sailed into the west..."

PCs don't have to start out exceptional, but it makes it a lot easier to explain why they're going on an adventure in the first place...

3. …the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding...

And maybe that's the crux of it for me. I'd say it's also about allies, in addition to opponents. Because it's important to me to square...

That's my biggest problem with season two. No one really gets narratively satisfying plot arc. A lot of plots literally go nowhere...

The problem wasn’t that they didn’t go that direction…it’s they went no direction. If Dedra had started to hate her imperial workers...

Batman's biggest superpower is he was born wealthy, and not just comfortable but preeminently wealthy. That and he apparently has an 18...

Rand al'Thor and Luke Skywalker are just about the worst zero to hero examples one could come up with. They are good at just about...

Well, one answer might be that ability scores don't obey a bell curve in the general population. If there were a general lack of...

This I would tend to agree with, albeit it varies a bit depending on the campaign/game. But I generally want highly competent...

It was a pleasure meeting you, sir. Maybe after some time off your battery will recharge or maybe this hobby just ran its course for...

For the last several years, I have been analyzing the successes and failures of each of my campaigns as they ended in a series of...

It's a shame that PC exceptionalism only has those two poles and nothing in between.

But that's only because Rand doesn't know he can cast "burning hands". The first time Rand crosses blade with in a Heronmark, he levels...

Rand al'Thor was NEVER normal. Rand just thought he was normal. Rand's story arc is about figuring out just how not normal in any...