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Both of those things are default IME. Given the advancement speed these days, being captured at the start of an adventure and rescued...
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Or just be outdoors at night...
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That last point is an important one; who is carrying a light source can become hugely important in certain circumstances. In a recent...
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I think I may not have expressed myself well. All I was noting was that if you have a run of bad die luck the otherwise most balanced...
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Short-term trends in rolls, however, can lead to something of a butterfly effect with long-term consequences. Consider this example...
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So back in the day, in the IT world we had these O’Reilly tech books that would have stuff like Programming Perl and then a separate...
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For adventure modules, yes. They more or less equate to instruction manuals: the only reason for their existence is to clearly tell the...
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If it's an RPG product it's almost by definition supposed to be read and also used. I'm not hating on books that are designed to also...
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Must be nice.... :)
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For A and C I think being stuck in a dessert would affect your ability to cast still.
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3. Some people actually played that way back then and want more.
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Though you have to follow-through. As someone upthread indirectly references, its actually a bit odd that there's not much I've seen...
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Hmmmmm...interesting. That's sparked me to think about how an exhaustion (or starvation, disease, etc.) mechanic might also affect...
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but then you can turn anything meta into something non-meta, as has been shown a few times in the last few posts. Worst case it is fate...
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That doesn't help, because the people involved in complaints don't see why that would apply to individual powers. They'd probably have...
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