Recent content by Maxperson

For the same reason most 5e magic items are also boring. Interesting items have been sacrificed on the altar of balance.

My personal issue is that I've never encountered an RPG that I want to play as is, right out of the box. There are always(to date) rules that I dislike and want to change. For me, I'd rather tweak a rule system to make it better than chase a snipe and just keep switching RPGs.

Sandbox play isn't player driven past the need for proactive players. Passive players will flounder in a sandbox game. Proactive players will pick directions and goals for their PCs, but beyond that realism can be a DM concern without disrupting the sandbox even a smidge. Don't get me wrong...

For me it would have gone something like.... Joe: Hey DM, why was there a dragon in that meadow. DM: That's an interesting question. What are you going to do to investigate the reason why it was there? Dragons travel. Some widely. Dragon lairs are also unknown, so just because the nearest...

You're making the classic mistake of conflating real world realism with fantasy realism. When people talk about realistic in fantasy settings, that realism includes fantasy realism. Magic is realistic, because in a fantasy system, magic is part of the fantasy reality. It has been established...

There was no conformity in the 80's and 90's. The vast majority of us house ruled our games to the point where each game was different enough to have to stop and learn how a new DM did things before we could play with a new group. There was/is more conformity with the WotC editions due to...

Again, Usain Bolt and Shohei Ohtana have innate and uncanny ability as well. One with speed and the other with baseball ability. Are you seriously saying that they have super powers? Anyway, I've done the research and he gained his insane accuracy through training that innate and uncanny...

So you don't want to do the research. Got it. You're going to continue to incorrectly conflate innate talent(skill) with super power. I guess I can't help you there. Carry on!

It's true in both. In the show he took his innate ability(like Usain Bolt's innate speed and Shohei Ohtani's innate ability at baseball) and trained with it to become better. It's innate talent, not a super power like Daredevil's. If you do a bit of research, you'll see that what I am saying...

Reminds me of one of my 1e DMs back in the mid 80's. He had Krull's glaive, Kzinti, Jedi and lightsabers, and more in his 1e game. Hmm. Games have been that way since 1e. Does that mean you aren't really progressive? :unsure:;)

If everyone can play the old way, it literally cannot be gatekeeping. Gatekeeping is putting an impediment in the way to keep some folks out of whatever it is you are doing. Unless of course this is a new definition of gatekeeping, because if this thread has proved anything, it's that new =...

No man. Marvel is life! The order of things is water, salt, Marvel, food, sleep...

I meant reading objects with his fine sense of touch, not object reading the psychic power, though I can see how it could have seemed that way. :P We are actually in agreement.

Either way, you aren't spitting a tooth that hard. And in the comics Bullseye can kill with playing cards and other super minor things that wouldn't actually be lethal. All mundanely trained.

And Daredevil's super power is hyper senses and object reading is a straightforward use of his power. The difference? Bullseye doesn't have a super power. He mundanely trained to do his spit a tooth through a skull trick. Daredevil as an actual super power. How long do you think it would...