Recent content by jeffh

Trademarks can. This would be primarily a matter of copyright, for which this isn't true.

And just like that, in a few lines that don't actually invalidate much if anything from the preceding almost-half-century, Gaiman rewrites so much of the series' lore in a way that actually makes everything make more sense. It's probably the most deft retcon of all time.

I disagree with Oofta. The PH description of the feat (p 170) says "before you make an attack"; it doesn't mention the Attack action or capitalize "attack" or anything like that. It seems clear to me that you can choose whether to use Sharpshooter for each individual attack, and if you have...

This is what I do. It's also seen in several of the Zeitgeist adventures, from the publishing arm of this very site. It seems to play well, with minimal tracking (some, but far less than if they just had hit points, even relatively few). In Roll20, I give every minion a hit point bar with 2 hit...

This is something I've noticed more and more of. People identify with their preferences in entertainment media - in the fairly literal sense of making being a Star Wars fan or whatever part of their identity, a big factor in how they think of themselves - to an unhealthy degree. And as a result...

So, double down on an approach that's done nothing but spectacularly fail so far. Can't see any way that could go wrong, no sirree.

Do they take any initiative at all? What do you see them respond positively to or gravitate toward? It's starting to sound like they view the game as mostly passive entertainment like a movie, to be honest.

Talk. To. Your. Players. Out of game. Explicitly say some of the things you said here, or slightly more polite versions of them. This is not a problem you're going to solve with scenario design alone.

I just stumbled on a thread on Reddit that was very critical of Granny Appleseed's riddle on page 33 of Memories of Holdenshire. Although one thing the thread doesn't mention is that the adventure does allow for fairly easy skill checks to get additional clues, which somewhat reduces the bite of...

Ah. That makes sense. Scribd has legit e-book and audiobook sections, but anything D&D-related I've seen there is user-uploaded with no indication that it's in any way approved by WotC. So, almost certainly pirated. I'm less familiar with that side of archive.org (I mostly just use the Wayback...

There's not enough detail here to be sure but my first thought is that perhaps he fell for one of the scams that advertise regularly on Facebook.

I went Dragonlance, Eberron, and "Something I Forgot", specifically with Dark Sun in mind. Krynn especially seems tailor-made for a big-budget TV series, all you need to do is adapt the OG novels with relatively small changes for modern tastes. You would really need to embrace problematizing the...

Another case where a link would be nice. When did they promise that?

There's a lot of arguments for that (EDIT to clarify: for keeping OGL 1.0a). Promissory estoppel probably doesn't crack the top 5, even from a strictly legal perspective, let alone ethically. But I think I do see what you're getting at for all that. Also, I'd be extremely surprised (and...

I think you mean estoppel, and the problem with that is, who exactly would the complainant be? Not most of their current audience or even most collectors, who have seen prices go up due to reprints in many cases due to increased demand. In the very common case of once-in-demand cards that are...