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They don't. It's that old trust thing again. So if you were DMing that scenario with the floating gem generating flashing lights each...

It's ages since I read Moby Dick, I only remember the ending where they die together. It seemed to map fairly closely to a scene...

I bypass all this using my patented Despotic Tyranny First approach.

I don't necessarily think it was ironic. I think it did make sense. Remember, there weren't RPG mechanics before D&D so they didn't...

At a quick glance, I like the "segment" version better, except I'd still have it be individual initiatives rather than side-based and...

The "getting better at doing what they do" is the same as getting more powerful, isn't it? The answer there is to stretch out those...

Fair enough. The question then becomes one of how big of a gap there is between levels 0 and 1, and-or whether level 0 is itself a step...

Yeah as a long campaign type GM and player I can dig that. For some reason I just enjoy that journey and feel a little cheated without it.

Pretty much same here. My question is, if you start at the end of the journey to exceptional, where do you go from there? Or is it a...

My preference these days, is that unless I'm specifically running a superhero game, I don't really want to run a game where the PCs...

Of course, my problem is that D&D when I started playing it was more sword & sorcery and less high fantasy, and I still prefer to play...

I've run the numbers for our games, and with a fair bit of data to go on I found that starting stat average has a rounding-error effect...

Why would their generic stats be as low as 8-10 when the bell-curve average is 10.5? A character with 9s in five stats would need an 18...

Sarcasm aside, I want to, in effect, take something not all that far removed "mechanically" from my normal experience (at least when it...

IMO, except for an ability score or two, PCs should be typical.