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Further thoughts: 1) This Xenomorph is like, insanely more dangerous than any Xenomorph we've seen before, and is ruthlessly focused on...
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I mean, Earth is controlled by 5 gigantic megacorporations. Democracy, meaningful choice and freedom have been deleted. Autocrats like...
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Sure! And when I post on trauma boards, I mention that! It’s not quite that layered. Like… the character you’re playing is a one from...
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That is not at all what he's doing. @Hussar can correct me if I am wrong, but fwict, if he got a response of "Yeah, it doesn't...
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See, but that's the thing. Is that a design goal for simulation? If entities in the game should have a consistent mechanical...
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It's perfectly achievable if you stop caring about diegesis...which was the whole point. You can invent whatever mechanics are needed as...
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Your statblock is not absolute in any real way. It changes all the time. There's an entire leveling system that changes your statblock...
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Which literally no one has actually stated here.
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No. The truth is that some of us recognize the limitations of a given system and don't pretend otherwise. That some other systems...
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You know what? OK.
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"Not become a slog" doesn't really fit into the creative agenda buckets, as @Pedantic mentioned before. It's more akin to bounded...
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Having to provide a statblock for a color inclusion like a pet cat just so it can have a chance to kill an ogre seems "artificially...
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Narrate something relevant as the DM, or ask for a check. The cat is background flavor, not something relevant to the resolution. It's...
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Except in 4e, that isn't true. You can't automatically extract the meaning out of any one game mechanic and apply it more broadly to a...
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