Recent content by Halloween_Jack

Marking your man is a key feature of rugby, too. Rugby is a big fight that happens to involve a football. And where do you think football players got the idea of marking your man? It's a nonlethal melee. When I mark my man, he either has to engage me, or turn toward my teammate and leave...

I don't need you to explain dumb edition war memes to me, I'm familiar with all of them. Associated/dissociated mechanics is hot garbage. It's based on a notion of "immersion" that is out of touch with reality and likes it that way. In the very same essay the author acknowledges that hit points...

This is forum meme that is pure nonsense.

Then don't play a warlord! You're happy, and I'm happy, because I don't care about enforcing my tastes on complete strangers. The warlord has never been like, say, casters in 3e, where the party is screwed if they choose not to play those classes. HP in D&D have always been part morale. Or at...

So, some of us like a variety of class options, and some of us experience tension, even angst, at the thought of other people having fun we think is "illogical." And WotC decided to cater to the latter group. That's definitely not crazy at all.

You take "dissociated mechanics" seriously.

I'd tell the guy playing a 1st level anything that he knows he can't jump that far. A few levels later, though... I'm not throwing a fit at people who have different tastes from me, and saying what they like should be written out of the game and forbidden. That's spinozadude you're thinking of.

If you roll well enough, sure, you can run up a wall or whatever. Every D&D character is defying the laws of physics by doing what adventurers do. If Godzilla existed, it would be impossible for a man with a sword to handily kill him. So if you're accepting that a high-level fighter can kill a...

Why play D&D at all? It is not, and never has been, a physics simulator.