Recent content by Clint_L

No lie, I had the best burger and best fries of my life at a restaurant in Portugal, of all places, just this past summer. It was the rooftop lounge at the Rebello hotel in Porto, and I cannot recommend them emphatically enough. All the food was incredible, as were the fancy cocktails. But that...

D&D is my main, Dread is my fav, Fiasco is a great for casual sessions, and I occasionally intersperse with a short CoC or Eldritch Horror campaign. Then we try other games when someone get interested enough to prep it. But it's 90% D&D lately.

Well, Canada has that French culture! Edit: but honestly, I'm not picky about the bun, as long as it is firm enough to keep the burger intact!

Fair, though I was struck by how the climax, in particular, was framed as a collective military action and a chance for redemption, and some of the rhetoric used in the filmed echoed that of the Japanese Far Right...and that's as far as I can safely go with that.

My first premise is that the cheeseburger is the finest food ever conceived. It is the Platonic ideal of yumminess, IMHO. My cheeseburger of choice is the classic: brioche bun, lean patty cooked medium (you don't want to go less than medium with ground beef unless you really trust the source)...

I love me some short novels, and I love me some long novels. The Great Gatsby is near perfect, and it weighs in at under 200 pages. Frankenstein is one of the most impactful novels ever written, and it is similarly short. But Lord of the Rings is impossible at that length (though props to Ralph...

I had issues with Minus One for exactly these reasons. Specifically, I think it promotes the problematic ideology that the Japanese military were victims of WW2, when militarism was one of the main drivers of the Pacific theatre. I don't want to debate the pros and cons of that position as it...

But that example is a REALLY inefficient use of their resources. If players are making those choices, the only way circle casting will "break" games is by making combats a lot harder on players who can't math.

In my own experience, extreme long range is one of the least useful power-ups in the game. Sure, there might be hypothetical situations of attacking dragons at 1000 feet or whatever, but extreme range is so, so seldom an actual issue in my games that anything more than 120 feet may as well be a...

Not to mention that there is an assumption that it is advantageous to have frontline warriors, who soak most of the damage, be responsible for maintaining concentration, which keys off damage taken. Yes, some (not all) martial classes are proficient in Con saving throws (my monk isn't), but they...

Let’s not make this another thread about casters vs martials. In looking at these rules, nothing is really jumping out as particularly problematic in the context of my games and typical party compositions. But I’ll have to play with them a bit to see if that is actually true. I’m more worried...

Well...not for the DM. Because I can think of lots of ways for me to use it to set up interesting challenges, as I can have as many spellcasters as I need. But yeah, I don't see it having much impact from a player's perspective. Hopefully the occasional creative use.

I'm still cheezed off by the one time I had to give my fingerprints, about a decade ago. Apparently someone with a similar birthdate and place of birth had committed some kind of crime, and as I am a teacher I had to go into the police station and have them fingerprint me to prove I wasn't a...

I'm pretty embarrassed that I didn't catch that, given that I taught the CT as a TA in grad school. Obviously, there is no Ratcatcher's Tale.

It's first in the "General Prologue" - all the pilgrims meet at a tavern (The Tabard - it was an actual place that Chaucer knew), and that's where they come up with the idea for a tale-telling competition. Pilgrimage was the one event where people from the different estates (commoners, clergy...