Recent content by Dave Goff

😊 Plato was a big fan of the d12: In Plato's dialogue Timaeus, each of the five Platonic solids was associated with one of the classical elements. The tetrahedron was linked to fire, the cube to earth, the octahedron to air, and the icosahedron to water. The dodecahedron, with its twelve...

I'm just here to give a shout out to Old Gods of Appalachia, the podcast. :) I haven't tried the game yet, but I am curious.

I wouldn't say so, RAW or RAI, and I would even have to be convinced to let it by way of "rule of cool". I do wonder what the application of the glowing water would be. Can you share why someone wanted to make water glow? I'll disagree with aco175 about it being useless. I mean, it's a cantrip...

I'm really glad I'm seeing love for Legion. I loved that show. I was expecting a normal superhero show and 2 episodes in I stopped it and told my wife she had to come watch. She's generally not into superhero shows, but we were both all in on that one. It's kinda like if David Lynch did a...

These are amazing!

I have two "ghost stories" I experienced that I can't explain, but I sit on both sides of this discussion- I believe people really do have experiences that can be called paranormal or supernatural, but I also believe that these things will someday be quantifiable, repeatable, and able to be...

Yeah, that seems more reasonable to me. Also, I wonder if the armor could be engineered in some way that it actually supports the back and makes having a rider less of a burden on the spine. I now have head cannon about a Dwarven smith, a Gnomish artificer and a Halfling paladin starting a...

Well, sure, but that doesn't look like heavy plate and there's no rider. :) But like I said, I'm definitely no expert and haven't really looked into it.

I remember when I worked in the pet industry hearing that adult, active dogs can carry no more than 25% of their weight without risking injury. In my mind, it's pushing things to even consider having a fully armored Halfling on a dog for any period of time, and then to add plate armor as well...

Two times when I've reviewed D&D adventures sent to me through my website come to mind. With one, I gave a good review and then just mentioned that a font used in info boxes was hard to read. The author got back to me and let me know they changed the font and asked if I could update the review...

I like it. I'm always amused by original folklore traditions versus how D&D changed them. For example, if most players had to face folklore Kobolds, they'd be screwed.

I'm enjoying the show. As I've mentioned in various places, I see it as an alternative world, or different spin of the wheel, from the books I've read- there are similarities and the story has many common elements, but it's a different world. That said, I do feel like a lot of the things that I...

I would say Jack Daniel is helping, by providing context on the original concepts of the stat scores.

I just started playing in a game using Knave rules and it has Wisdom as the ranged weapon stat. It works pretty well, I think.

I enjoyed the episodes I've seen. I see it as something like an alternative universe version of the books I read and it's all works better. Although, I did think the introduction of Thom Merrilin was kind of terrible, but it's okay. It's fun either way. I agree with Rand's look not fitting with...