Recent content by Crimson Longinus

Sure, but it is convenient if you could do that. Also, with normal daily rests the time becomes really weird. It become like the 24 TV show. In real time months may have passed whilst the characters are still living the same day. (Yet another reason to use gritty rests.)

No way in hell. You cannot fit 6-8 fights in four hours even though that's all you'd do. And I want majority of the game time to spent to other things regardless. Two fights per four hour session is pretty much the max, maybe three if they are really simple ones, but I wouldn't make a habit of...

And several hours at the game table. That's the issue.

Well, whilst D&D of course remains overwhelmingly the most popular RPG, I think the momentum seems to be pretty much gone. I don't think people were really exited about 5.5. and there have recently been several relatively popular and high profile games that are marketed basically as D&D...

What is common to FKR and more systematic simulationist approach, is that they aim to model functioning of the fictional world. World, not a story. The logic is: "Given the parameters of the situation, what would happen?" Not, what would be most dramatic, funny, thematically appropriate or would...

The thing is, despite all my complaints, I actually think 5e is a well designed game. It has issues, but it works reasonably well for most people despite of them. They also are such that a GM who is aware of them can address them in variety of ways. I think issues with both 3e and 4e were way...

Be that as it may, if there had been extensive playtesting of 4e, "Does not feel like D&D" would surely have appeared as a significant sentiment. In general, I am rather sceptical about the usefulness of playtesting and polling. Like "Does this feel like D&D to you?" might actually be a useful...

Be mean to a puppy? We can play a villain, but not a total monster! I have no doubt that given choice, most people want to play good characters. Though I think the videogame statistics are not helped by evil choices in such games often being pointless "kick puppy because I'm evil" type of...

Recently I did a two stage boss by just having an archmage instantly respawn as a lich once he was killed. (Both were 5.0 versions and the characters came prepared with aniticaster stuff, so it was not a very hard fight for them.)

That relates to the last item on the list.

Because metering the resources is where the players get to make decisions. Which is a big part of playing a RPG.

I'd have kept the art and bastions. Greyhawk is obviously completely unnecessary in such a book.

Yes, they could have different amount of resources. And that probably should be less if they refresh daily. But I'm not sure where that gets us. What's your point?

They don't have to. But they usually do. And the ones used example here earlier do. WoW was specifically mentioned. That some videogames might not is completely besides the point.

I don't follow...