Recent content by Joshua Randall

Yeah that last episode of Bosch Legacy was super lame. But we got a lot of good stuff up until that point.

Yes. “Control” is a rider on almost every power. (In fact, on too many powers.) “Control” is not a Role.

Bosch and Bosch: Legacy — just wrapped up its run Amazon Prime

Yes, one thousand times yes. The fighter is the strongest controller in 4e. The paladin is closer to what people mean when they say ‘tank’, although it does not ‘tank’ in the MMO sense. (Nobody in 4e does because 4e is not an MMO.) What the paladin does, especially at epic tier, is present the...

Sadly that page of Square Fireballs was not crawled until 2023 (?!) but you could mostly re-derive the charts based on the formulas and explanation towards the bottom fo the article.

OK, not really. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052 Also they named it ‘olo’ which is way less cool than ‘jale’.

What we have learned from gamebooks is that the deadliest enemy an adventurer can face is a door.

This is the seminal article on this topic from the PC side https://squarefireballs.blogspot.com/2009/10/calculating-hit-chances-using-attack.html Not as much work was ever done from the monster side but b_took has the gist of it.

I was thinking a halfling but maybe several bananas in a trench coat?

pounds on table MORE!

We've danced around the topic but it's time to get serious: What level is OUR Carr Delling? We must acknowledge that any evidence we present will be invalidated by the gamebook's boilerplate language: "ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS [registered trademark symbol] Adventure Gamebooks read easily...

Another vote for Fate and its plethora of mini-campaigns. My latest darling Agon (Paragon is the generic version) has a surprisingly large number of offshoots to show its toolbox-y nature. It’s not as toolbox-y as Fate though. https://itch.io/c/2805601/paragon-system-games

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I am not sure I can enjoy Oblivion without the potato-faced characters.

Apocalypse World. Given you fill out the playbook at the start already. Just don't fill it out until instructed. Agon. (Paragon is the open game version.) Again, don't fill out the stats until instructed. Instead of items or assets, you have mutations. I think your proposed options are all too...