Recent content by GMMichael

Huh. I may have missed that while learning to walk 🤓 It's all about tradeoffs. Full backpacks mean lots of clanking and an action/round lost to dropping said backpack at the start of a fight. Sure you could tie your gear down to reduce noise, but then it's not readily accessible. What if...

Dangerous spells are fair game at high level. I don't have any expectation that mid level or even high level combats should be between too easy and too hard. It's combat: if you've made it to mid level, you knew the stakes going in. A boss fight is different, although I think players love to...

If there are, I'm not sure I'd want to play them. For the rules of a D&D-like to guarantee tough, but not deadly, encounters, characters would have to run on rails resembling 4th ed. D&D: all characters do the same stuff, they're just powers with different names. Expecting regular...

Are these harsh realities, or just the norm in medieval settings? Maybe not. But the dinosaurs' apocalypse led to the threat of nuclear destruction . . .

You know what's scary? A computer virus. Any number of bad things could come from it. Speaking of malware, the internet isn't such a free source of info to the PCs if their phones get hacked. With malicious actors on their phones/trackers, PCs might choose to ditch them quickly.

There's definitely a lack of understanding. That's why they invented dark matter and dark energy.

There's a lineup of people in a dungeon. Naked, in chains, trembling. Master Blaster (or their look-alikes) walks along the line, designating individuals. "You. You. . . . You." They select each PC. Only if it passes session zero. The "you have nothing / are a prisoner" trope isn't my...

This is what I was expecting when I clicked. Well, a costume, too. But OG Battlecat is cool. Disappointing too - should've had moving limbs.

Aw, I wanna take/make a crack too! Somehow, I don't think this is the Justice Perkins was seeking!

You must be seeing something I'm not. Are you suggesting the game is innovative, or that few games have a built-in online following at the get-go?

I don't buy it. A Doppler effect requires a change in frequency measured as the amount of time/space between waves (and relative velocities). Light doesn't have that. A single photon has a frequency when it's detected. There's no need for a follow-up photon, or the next crest of the wave, to...

Little the did adventurers know, the dragons would be their allies in the 21st century, not their quarries. "I guess it's just 'Dungeons' now, friends." And much rejoicing was had.

They do say the "spirit" has passed on. But it's the hairiest of each faction that joins the Merry Melee. These Melee participants are generally the hairiest of each faction: the alpha males. They are excellent hunters, indicated by their prowess in "catching" dwarves. And eating them...

Or be able to switch to a game that isn't so rules-heavy. There's an easy way around this one in D&D. Just write Lawful Good on your character sheet, and play however you want. Thank you. I wouldn't say DMing is hard work. It's specialized work that doesn't flow smoothly for everyone. If...

Free is good. I'm not sure how to feel about a "river" being on the map. Or "the Empty." It looks like it's due for a three-body problem. So my thoughts went to, "how are space events different from earthbound events?" If they're not, Bill could just re-flavor typical RPG traveling events...