Recent content by Cergorach

I would advise that only if everyone agrees unconditionally. As that opens the door to all kinds of shenanigans.

The problem isn't D&D, the problem is overly hostile people when your propose something to 'improve' the game. And apparently the game wasn't perfect already because someone thought it was a good idea to propose... As for 'forcing' combat in D&D, I would say that it's traditionally been very...

I've seen that too, and trying to 'educate' that player during the game and out of the game didn't help. What did help was a session 0 with pretty clear rules and the group together building the party. The party group has never worked as well together, efficiency. Very occasionally there are...

I'm not saying everyone should be the same, I'm saying they each have an active and useful role in whatever situation. A useless goal keeper is still going to frustrate everyone. One player uses melee combat to deal damage, another ranged combat to deal damage, someone else uses spells to...

Look, it's like a ball sport where everyone is very competent and one isn't. While that might be fun for a while, eventually the strong players will get annoyed by the weak player, and the weak player gets annoyed because they don't really contribute like the rest does (and don't get the ball)...

I think that's based on assumptions, randomness, not understanding the system, and a certain level of unintentional min/maxing. In D&D 3e the issue was worse, partly due to how the system was implemented, partly due to how much choice there was with all the official books and people assumed...

That thus depends fully on the DM/group style if that works or not, and imho that's not balanced! In the social setting the the combat person is useless, and in the combat the social person is useless. You're essentially playing different games, with different people, and the rest of the people...

They made certain choices, some love it, some hate it. I'm one of the later, I wasn't even able to watch beyond the first 10min when it was on one of the streaming services I subscribe to (I almost never go to the theater). And if anyone expected some blockbuster from a D&D movie, they were...

I would even go so far as to say that individually optimized characters will be a LOT less effective then a good group build. And that's not just about min-maxing, but playing characters that mesh well with each other. OR an imbalance in the party where both started with the same resources, one...

Nope. Not in the least. How unbalanced depends on the specific build, the player, the DM, the adventure, the style, the group, the mood, and the phase of the moon. As long as the whole group uses the same generating method, everyone starts equal and the end result depends on the specific...

Sure, sure... 'Evidence'... :ROFLMAO: If every management shakeup would collapse your plans for the complete next year, businesses would be in trouble and WotC would not have survived for so long. What's having a far bigger impact is probably the US tariff shenanigans, at the end of 2024...

I actively disliked the Planescape one, the Eberron one I found dense in a bad way, and the previous FR books were Meh!(tm) at best. Only the newest FR duo did a good job imho, not that I liked everything, but it was a well organized, but still dense book, with lots of easily accessible...

Depends on the patches, I spend WAY too much money on the Battletech patches, pins, and dice sets. Stickers and post cards are generally very cheap and easy to produce and won't delay the KS delivery much or at all. It still gives the feeling to most people that they are getting 'more' for...

That was never proven or admitted, they mixed company and private funds, something that happens often with small companies. And don't get me wrong, CGL has had 'issues' paying their freelancers since that drama as well. CGL isn't a good company to work for imho. But so are so many other small...

Mr Trollman did work in the RPG industry on Shadowrun, two books as far as I can tell (2006&2007) and CGL really regretted hiring him... Mr Trollman created a LOT of drama in 2010 for CGL and the SR community. No one ever repeated that mistake... ;)