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I have a niece who is 22. I was visting her mother one night and her and pack of her similar aged friends rolled into the house. We had...

Oh, despite all the handwringing about her public persona, I think she's probably an actually pretty healthy and smart person.

Though she does seem rather good about generation Z relationships, if this is anything to go by...

Back to another episode I didn’t see back in the day, which is Facets from season 3. This is all pretty interesting. Firstly, it’s well...

A hit traditionally means “everyone’s heard of it and has heard good things” and it definitely helps if it’s commercially successful...

The Dogs of War What You Leave Behind And we’re done. I agree (again) with Avery Brooks - Sisko deserting his wife and unborn child...

Went back to Disney Plus this month to watch the latest season of Only Murders in the Building. Sadly the third episode was so...

I know that the goal is to present classes that are familiar to players of 5e, but that is also the biggest strike against the game for...

I just finished reading H. G. Wells' 1898 novel (itself a collection of serialized releases) The War of the Worlds, and found it to be...

HP are an abstraction, so interpret them however you like. I've toyed with the idea of allowing players to spend HP to negate...

Yes, that’s quite right and all covered in my initial post. If you use HP as metacurrency you’d have to rename them. It’s the idea of...

@jian The issue with your suggestion isn’t that it couldn’t work, but that it assumes hit points have a fixed meaning that can be...

I think it’d be quite interesting to have a spell that inflicted damage based on the target’s HD or level, but I agree it’d be...

I think the question as originally posed is more along the lines of “if the original spell heals 1d8 + caster’s level in HP, is it more...

What’s quite interesting is games that have reverse death spirals - you get more stronger the more wounded you are, so there’s some...