Recent content by Mannahnin

I like kobolds and goblins, have played Dwarves on occasion (especially when filling in as a rock-solid veteran in a newbie group), and can wrap my head around a hobbit on infrequent occasions. With my kobolds and goblins I may lean into some humor, some "get underestimated and prove them...

"under"played, or downplayed? Are you opining that it was definitely of greater moment than either of them would admit?

Still looks fun. :) I like the glimpses of the past (80s?) TV show version of the character.

Conditioning is huge for fighters! We see it in boxing and MMA too, but with the helmets and the weight of the armor it's always seemed enormously important for ACL/Buhurt. The newbies are quickly out of wind and dying - the killers/veterans keep breathing and fighting.

Pfft. Try to assign the dread Gazebo a gender.

Still sick more than a week later. :( Probably need to focus more on sleeping longer. I messed up my left hip last spring overdoing legs. Spent a few weeks squeezing in extra workouts before my old gym closed at the end of Feb and then maximizing a two week trial at a new gym. Though my pain...

That doesn't seem like an accurate description of what he wrote. It comes off as a bad-faith misrepresentation, and I know you're normally sincere, so I'm going to assume you misread him. You pushed back on Mamba's suggestion that people who want to write primarily for readers should maybe...

That's cool. Another little motivator for "I should try to make it to PAX Unplugged this year".

From what I've seen of them, they don't need to, because if a room can be entered from multiple directions it's written so as not to assume that the characters are coming from any particular direction.

Yup. The lifts jumped right out at me even when I was a kid. That being said, the movie is shockingly good despite them. Generally I feel 100% the same. This one uses the video to illustrate its points and provide context and reference, actually conveying additional useful data with the visuals.

Based on his Reddit post it looks like he skimmed it. Lots of missed and misunderstood details.

He's the Prince of Thieves! :) I think OD&D covered him best in 1974, as a Fighting Man back before Thieves came along with a skill system confusing matters. :LOL:

The SRD gives you license to use any or all of the mechanics therein, and to fold, spindle, or mutilate them in the process. Really the only 5E-originated mechanic Shadowdark uses is advantage/disadvantage. Practically everything else in there people might be familiar with from 5E originated...

Yup. The smoothed ability modifier scaling and unified d20+mod vs DC are originally from 3E.

I agree that they're flexible and reflect their times. I do think there are such things as good and bad takes on a character who's been around a long time. Superheroes too. Some stories and concepts are just better conceived and better written than others. Heck, the Taron Egerton one is...