Eric V's latest activity
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EI was noodling over this thread and something occured to me. Imagine a thought experiment. You have two potential DM's that you are...
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EThere's surely a diminishing returns aspect to this. Is your second hour of actually GMing more valuable to your GMing ability than an...
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EEric V reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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Would this then not bring up an important distinction between appropriate and inappropriate assumptions? Because here, the clearly... -
EEric V reacted to Morrus's post in the thread Will there ever be new editions of the major systems? with Like.
I hate to break it to you, but you're old. 1990 was 35 years ago!
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EThat doesn't follow. So?
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EEric V reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Sure. And if one is making simply very high-level, abstracted responses, I can see there being warrant. For example, I haven't played...
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EYes you would. You would have an experience of handling a different sort of vehicle that may improve your ability to respond to other...
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ESigh yourself, oh Condescending One. I am, at the moment, mostly discussing gamers who were new in the hobby, under one year. How many...
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EEric V reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
How? There are GM-less TTRPGs. There are TTRPGs with no randomness at all. There are TTRPGs with no classes or races. There are TTRPGs...
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EWow. I so do not agree. Just because you can drive a Toyota Corolla does not mean you would be a good driver for a large truck or a...
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EEric V reacted to definiteFreakyFishGuy's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Hello. I'm one of the supposedly rare specimens that find GM-ing very difficult. I find improv hard. It's very difficult for me to...
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EEric V reacted to Mistborn's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Is 5E better because of Crawford and Perkins leaving? with Like.
Crawford’s and Perkins’s departure doesn’t really matter much to me. My issues with the current state of D&D come from something else...
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EEric V reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
That's pretty similar to how 13th Age handles minions/mooks.
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EEric V reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
D&D tiers are about effects not numbers. For example healing. Tier 0: You can't bring people back from death Tier 1: You can't bring...
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EEric V replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Feeling high level isn't just about how much damage one can put out as a player. It's also about what one can survive. In epic 4e, you...