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But much like "If everybody is special then no one is", "If everybody is in the back line avoiding danger then no one is."

Hmm. I don't feel like they bring back the feel of early editions (so much as we can generalize about them) so much as just plain tamps...

I believe what he's talking about is the ability to increase ability scores to high values was much more of a thing in 3e. Just about...

Just yesterday, I was running Tales of the Valiant (so pretty close to 5e). Unlike 2024e, they didn't improve healing. They gave the...

Except with D&D's swingy amount of damage there often isn't much tension before you hit zero. As always this is just my personal...

I was thinking about this a bit more and having automatic death at 0 leads to less tension rather than more would likely lead to less...

I think you nailed it with your analysis - I don't mind 0HP or at least much smaller death buffer systems in OSR games - because they...

I had that problem today. They were fighting a noble who they had learned was a blue dragon sorcerer (intended to warn them about his...

(Warning, details require knowledge of VtM): I think it had more to do with the fact that I personally resolved several storylines far...

The enemy only has 1 hp left and your weapon has the Graze property, so no need to make that attack roll. More time saved. ;)

In a long-running campaign, I retired a character who had become a demigod, simply because I thought adventuring as a god was a bit...

It does, however, reinforce my opinion that most full-blooded Vulcans are jerks.

I have AC starting at zero and ascending logically. Math works with a 2d10 to hit, Roll must >=10-F+AC. So the math explains diddly...

Something a lot of people seem to forget when discussing when a character dies is that D&D was designed without a critical hit system...

On the first point, I cannot help you. As others have mentioned it was left unclear. I will say that they kind of left dangling about...