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I don’t think there is any place for the use of the word “lazy” as a critique. The people who create these games, like the rest of us...

I dreamed up my own random name generator back in the 80s - it's a lot of rolling but has over the years given us some mighty fine...

This is probably one instance where you need to find a good homebrew of the class and run with it instead of the core version or Tasha's...

It depends what you don't like in the game. However, going class by class, mostly from memory: Barbarian: Berserker's core feature ties...

Honestly... I'm on the train with those folks who think 'subclass at 3' was a multiclassing decision. When you put a subclass ability...

Wait... if you agree with me, then why did you say earlier you wanted subclasses to start at 1st level? Shouldn't it be that you don't...

100% this, subclasses are just feat chains.

A character's game mechanics that are given to a "base class" versus given to a "subclass" are arbitrary. The designers just select a...

The comic book seemed real enough to my teenage self. Cobra even killed some Joes once. I remember Clutch discovering Cobra had...

When I was really into GI Joe, I was too young for RPGs, or at least anything beyond the D&D Basic Set. When I was in middle and high...

It's a Catch-22, right? It's G.I. Joe, so there's automatically a non-seriousness to it that the toys, cartoon, and comic book play...

That sucks. Even if you provided incentive to pick a proper code name, sounds like your players wouldn't take anything serious in the...

Some people complain about that stuff because they don't want to change how they themselves GM in relation to the game they are playing...

Yeah I guess I can totally understand that with the caveat of "at tables that don't optimize, 2024 characters are more powerful" (that's...

yeah, they are pretty aggressively blocking anyone who disagrees with them. Just took about 10 minutes after my post... Oh well, no...