Recent content by Crimson Longinus

I wouldn't trust the pictures. Artistic depictions of exotic animals are often inaccurate. I'm pretty sure none of those artist who drew those pictures have ever seen an owlbear.

I would never use a players phobia like that. And yes, the GM is trying to evoke real emotions by creating an atmosphere, but in character immersion style the players feeling are modulated by their character. The player will feel different feelings depending on the character they are playing...

The sort of inconsistencies mentioned here regarding the superhero genre have always bugged me. Personally I'd love a supers setting that was actually more coherent and the powers were consistent and their effects applied more realistically. I think the Boys is closest we have to that.

No, they are monotremes, and thus have keratinised chewing surfaces on the edges of their bills.

I'd suggest that you are anomalously unsuitable audience for the whole horror genre. Most people can feel scared by various forms of horror fiction, and the entire appeal of the genre is based on that.

Also I don't think simulation per se is unpopular, people still definitely want some amount of it, even though they are satisfied with less than what @Micah Sweet wants. But D&D 4e was mostly rejected because it went too far into "gamism over sim" direction.

Yes, it indeed is! Humans have been telling stories that evoke emotional reactions in others as longs as humans have existed, so it is indeed simple. So simple that a literal caveman could do it! And with a roleplaying game where the listeners are immersed in the viewpoint of a character in the...

Sounds like pushing narrative to me. You think there is the "correct way" everyone should react to things and want mechanics to enforce that narrative.

This is exactly the effect I anticipated when I first saw Daggerheart's initiative system but people were dismissive and said it's not gonna play like that in practice.

Apparently low magic worlds don’t have aristocrats. Today I found out that I live in a high magic setting. 🤷

Also, in 5e a lot of things still do half the damage on successful save, so the poison must have contacted.

Yet by reading Lovecract's books one might get at least a bit scared, and that is achieved via narration. So I expect the GM to do the same. And it easier in a RPG in a sense that if you have players willing to immerse, there will be stronger sense of "being there" than can usually be achieved...

So I think this is the sort of example which highlights why I don't like randomising these things, and why a lot of people feel randomising mental stuff like this is different than randomising the physical stuff. I tried to explain it earlier, but people ignored it. How Scrag behaves tells us...

Obviously. This is not any sort of a secret. And of course no one is denying that the King who returns, Aragorn Elessar, special even among the Dúnedain is not exceptional. Of course he is, he is an archetypal chosen one. Yes, and when I read about the Hundred Years War, almost all of the...

That is stretching the definition of "exceptional" well beyond the breaking point. Though it is pretty strained for most of the others as well. I don't think "distantly related to some nobility" is particularly exceptional. For example most exceptional thing about Frodo is being related to...