Recent content by Clint_L

Of course you can. PLENTY of texts use implicit stereotypes. This is not a rare thing at all in literature. Dickens, in particular, is rather notorious for it. Basically all texts use figurative language (metaphors, symbols, motifs, etc.) to allude to things without stating them directly. That's...

Don’t they normally refer to people by names and personal pronouns, though, when they want to identify a specific body (eg the one woman’s son, and so on)? I thought they did.

I just had to adapt A Christmas Carol for our staff holiday skit, so I am feeling pretty familiar with it right now! There's nothing in the text that identifies him explicitly as Jewish, whereas he is idenitified implicitly as Christian (goes to Church , for example). He does embody a number of...

Well, sizeable for a normie. Hmmmm...what would be the best game to play with/against an entity containing the knowledge of 7 billion people? Like, you probably want to stay away from trivia games.

This is why the description of Rage in the PHB is so at pains to redefine it in a way that separates it from anger. It can be angry, but it doesn;t have to be. Which is confusing, but I'm pretty sure "I would like to rage!" is so iconic that they didn't want to lose it. Even if it means...

"Intelligence," "Charisma" etc. are not specifically defined traits that actual human beings have. Saying that a real world human is equivalent to D&D Int. 3 is saying almost nothing - it is nearly devoid of meaning because the term "intelligence," as actually used in the real world, is a fuzzy...

Okay. @AlViking, I had to calm myself before responding because you wrote something profoundly upsetting and derogatory about my child, but I know that you did not mean to do so and so I am extending you grace. What I wrote about intepretations of the arbitrary attribute scores used by games...

That's my point. Int. 3 on a character is clearly not the same as the general intelligence of a house pet or toddler. You can build a perfectly functional character who goes on to great things, reaches level 20, etc. with Int. 3. The D&D attributes do not have real world analogues. They are...

It is balanced in that it produces about the same totals as standard array and an average 4d6drop1 set of rolls. Those are the three “official” options described in the PHB. It obviously allows you a bit more fine tuning than standard array, while 4d6 drop one allows for more variety and...

When my kid wanted to try painting, I got him a Shambling Mound for his first go. It turned out great! Hard to go wrong, really...

As our front page got covered in spam this morning, I was so thankful to be able to just click on the sender, hit "ignore" and watch all of it go away. I am posting this to let newer members know they can do that; I didn't for over a year, and I was so happy when someone told me.

We watched It's a Wonderful Life two nights ago, and A Muppet Christmas Carol last night. It's funny; I generally dislike holiday music, but I sure love a lot of holiday movies. I don't always make sense. Anyway, even though I must have seen IAWL as a kid and certainly know it from popular...

Probably because my formative years were with 1e and Gygax's Dragon soapbox, I've always seen HP in the way you describe, so for me it's not a problem to ignore them for story purposes. A player could die to some random mook or an accident if that's their preference; I wouldn't feel any need to...

I should add that I share a lot of narrative freedom with the players to add story elements; that's just how our game has evolved. So this method is not really a stretch for us; it more seems like an obvious tweak that I wasn't clever enough to think of on my own.

Why would anyone pick option 1 in that scenario? That's the trap option. Option 3 is okay IF it's a very short campaign at low levels. But option 2 seems like the obvious winner. I assume that's what everyone picked?