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Intelligence gathering is more than just spies. It can involve Humint (spies, assets, etc.), Sigint (signals and communications), Imint (images) and other types of sources. It would require a lot of resources, but seems to me one could create an NSA-type (Sigint/Imint) spy system using scrying...

Can't believe we have this many posts and no one has mentioned A Charlie Brown Christmas. Some may not consider this a Christmas movie, but While You Were Sleeping is another great one about family at Christmastime. And one that's definitely treacly, but I still enjoy is White Christmas. Bing...

I have wanted DnD to do something like this since forever. A fighter with a dagger should be far more deadly than a wizard or cleric with a greatsword. Unless the system is going to get deep into the weeds of weapon speed and reach (please, no) skill matters far more than the specific weapon...

My understanding is that players loved this feat. It was GMs who felt it was unbalanced.

I just want to say I really enjoyed the first Buck Rogers SSI game, Countdown to Doomsday when it came out. I'm glad they made it, whatever self-dealing was involved. Curse of the Azure Bonds and Countdown to Doomsday were the best of the Gold Box games, IMO.

Brother Donovan, NPC cleric in Princes of the Apocalypse campaign. Level 5 party. A fight with fire temple agents leaves Donovan dead, the rest of the party fleeing. They come back the next day and retrieve his body, hoping to find a way to raise him that doesn't bankrupt the party. I saw this...

For myself, I usually choose human because it can fit so many concepts and doesn't come with certain baggage, e.g., regular elves are supposed to hate drow elves and vice versa. Race/lineage/whatever mechanics have little or nothing to do with my choice. For the rest of my group, mechanics...

It refers to the problem of a character with water- (or sea- or ocean-) based powers being mostly useless on land. As the video mentions, they added storm powers to the Sea druid for this reason.

Have to admit for me it will always be Civ II, then Civ I. Part of this is just nostalgia - I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours on those two games. But it's also about simplicity. They were strategy games with some interesting stuff going on. Beginning with Civ III, we started getting...

Not mentioned so far: Conan the Barbarian (great), Conan the Destroyer (dreck) Beverly Hills Cop 1 (great), BHC 2 (pretty good), BHC 3 (dreck)

Here's one I got from these very boards over 15 years ago: The party is sitting at an inn, celebrating their latest adventure success. The door opens and they turn to see who it is...and everything goes black. Next thing they know, it is cold and something wet is on their skin. What has...

I've given up worrying about stats, as I can always adjust the opposition. So in my last campaign (Dragon of Icespire Peak), I told my players to come up with their character concept or hook, then just pick their stats to match (max 18, no racial adjustments, no bonus feat for alt human)...

Just finished S.A. Chakraborty's Daevadbad trilogy. Djinn society in the late 18th Century in the Middle East. Lots of myth, magic and political intrigue. Overall reminded me a lot of Frank Herbert's Dune. My only complaint is that the books are too long. Almost 2,000 pages for the three books...

Slightly off-topic: When I ran Dragon of Icespire Peak, the party encountered a mimic that was feasting on some locals. Instead of kiling it, they convinced the mimic to come with them. They promised it food so long as it didn't eat anyone and it agreed. At first, they kept it in their room in...

Kind of an aside, but most of us have seen, in one thread or another, complaints about how spellcasters constantly step on skill classes' toes. They can find traps, cross ravines, sweet-talk NPCs, locate the treasure, etc. with a simple spell. But in reading this thread, I realize those folks...