Recent content by Dessert Nomad

No, because I was doing what the board rules encourage and discussing the game and the claims that have been made about it, not the personal life and issues of anyone involved in the game - it seems like that would turn rapidly into a personal attack. I didn't know anything about Jim Ward's...

Anyone scrolling up can see that that was actually in my second comment in the thread, which was a reply to you. If you're going to go on a big 'own your words' rant, you should at least get the most basic facts of the matter straight. I was responding to your post (as indicated by me quoting...

No, we're discussing public comments about the game and game itself. Having an impairment doesn't mean any product you release is immune from criticism. Trying to stifle discussion about a game and it's public marketing by claiming that criticism of the comments and game are somehow personal...

This heightens the appearance of desperation to me, since it makes it clear that he should know better as he's been involved with the overall genre to a large extent. Making a false claim about how innovative the game is, then defending it based on weird semantic arguments (like 'Dark Sun is...

The claims he's been making about the game sound overblown to the point of desperation. Saying in 2021 that it's the first post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG ever is just bizarre; there are lots of well-known PA fantasy RPGs from the early 90s (from the other thread Dark Sun, Earthdawn, arguably...

Yeah, I'm sure there are a decent number of 'dudes who primarily hang around with high schoolers because they aren't that cool but having your own apartment seems super-cool to high schoolers' that are just lame but not AWFUL. These guys were awful though - there was a ton of questionable stuff...

There were a pair of really bad GMs that I remember who were a guy with a steady factory job and a mostly-unemployed guy that lived with him. They didn't outright kill that many characters, but would hit people with weird attacks and situations ranging from 'questionable' to 'violent rape'. They...

Right - of course he had to correct himself since I'm sure he prompted people to list settings, but it's a bizarre thing to be wrong about. It would be like producing a MMORPG and announcing that no one has ever done one where you can steal from and kill/loot other players when Ultima Online...

Vance's Dying Earth series is a book series about a fantasy post-apocalyptic world that was published in the 50s, is listed in the 1e DMG as an inspiration for D&D. Dark Sun as a FPA setting for D&D was published in 1991, and I'm sure it's not the first time the idea was used. It's really weird...

It feels to me like one of those combos that's better in white room thinking than practice. Off the top of my head, if you have to move into attack range of more than one creature (which more easily happens if they have reach), then you can't use this because fancy footwork only affects the one...

For in-person play, I use electric 'tea candle' lights - I have one in front of me and turn it on if I have a concentration spell to remind me to make checks. It's shaped like a candle so looks reasonably thematic, but it actually a bulb so isn't going to set anything on fire. They're pretty...

What's weird about that is that you don't need a magic item to foil spells like discern lies and zone of truth, because they only detect whether the person believes they are telling the truth, not whether the statements are actually true. You just compartmentalize information and use deception...

It's also only one target - if you're trying to rescue five nobles chained in five separate cells (something you see in games and read in books fairly often), the rogue can handle it without much trouble in a reasonable time, but a caster is going to have to burn all of their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th...

You know, I had skipped the whole jumping bit since it's irrelevant, but I want to point out that what is described here is changing the basic rules of the game in a way that makes melee attackers much, much less effective, and anything that walks (instead of flying or teleporting) noticeably...

What games, and why would people that TSR3 targets for attack enjoy games that profit people who hate them? Methinks somebody hasn't kept up with the saga. And yes, if you 'have a different opinion' about who counts as human, that's unacceptable to me.