Recent content by Faolyn

I hardly think having something interesting happen instead of having nothing happen is making reality bend over backwards.

Like I said, never in my experience. Hmm. No, I just don't see it. The characters may not be having fun, but the players should be.

And that makes a major assumption about how groups play. I've never had a group go partway into a dungeon, then turn around and go back to get new supplies. But how is preventing progress at all fun or interesting?

Real life is often boring, frustrating, or all-around awful, none of which are good things for a game. If the players are actually enjoying roleplaying through failing to do a thing, then that's one thing, but if they're doing it because they have no other choice, that's another thing.

I agree. The idea that you can't get past by this one particular way should be used sparingly at best, but there should always be ways to pass through that are interesting and let the game move on.

That depends on the GM. Also the edition. Two of the above spells don't exist in 5e, for example. It's also possible that the casters didn't prepare the "right" spell, which is entirely unfair of the GM to think, because the character only has so many spell slots and they can't prepare...

That too. No matter the system, you can add consequences instead of simple failures. Sure, sometimes straight-out failure should be an option, but in my mind that would be, like, a low-level rogue trying to pick an incredibly complicated, super-high quality lock created by a master locksmith...

That's really not the case. Take the typical locked door. It's pretty rare that failing to pick the lock would, in and of itself, cause something interesting to happen. The interesting things that happen are if the lockpicks break, if the picker takes so long that someone finds them (or their...

Yeah, I know. I was just hoping to get it a bit cheaper via KS. Ah well; I can wait.

Well, it does seem a bit odd that your primary stated reason for not buying from them seems to be their unreliability...

Yeah, but I don't want the physical book. I do pdf only. Bad eyesight.

Darn, they don't have one for just the magic book. (Edit: in pdf only)

If Bledshaw produced something that was to your tastes, would you buy it?

Hang on, weren't they going to limit the amount of money they took in? Are all these people just giving money at the "I support you without a reward" level?

This isn't something stupid someone did as a kid, though. This is current bigoted stuff.