Recent content by Medic

I will take you at your word. My group and I found it quite evocative, so perhaps it just "seemed" obvious to me.

I'm not actually advocating for the practice. I honestly just have a really hard time believing that nobody, at all, suspected anything.

You: Meticulously sift through minutiae to pick out every bit that anyone may find insensitive or distasteful. Create a product that is palatable to the mass market for at least a decade or two. Me: Make a blatant allusions to hot-button topics. Use the resultant controversy to generate renewed...

I have warm memories of a scenario in which the party that I was playing with desperately needed to escape from a dungeon, but a door was barring the way. The rogue tried to pick the lock. He rolled a three, so he flubbed it. The fighter tried to break it down with his maul. He rolled a two...

There are different degrees of trust. For example, I know that I can trust my players to follow the rules, but I know that I can't count on their characters behaving like moral, upstanding folk every step of the way, and adjust the game accordingly.

Whenever I see this discussed, "Implied Setting" is usually the phrase that gets thrown around to describe the sort of world that the rules are tailored to.

I didn't think I'd ever be posting about my job, or even posting in this thread, but I'm seeing some confusion here that I can help dispel. I am a transcriptionist and aspiring medical transcriptionist that has on more than one occasion done work for medical professionals, including...

I'm well aware that it's possible for a player character to comfortably perform numerous feats of athleticism whilst comfortably hauling around 100kg of equipment. One poster said that belts give "super" strength. A different user questioned whether or not that would constitute "super." I...

With a Belt of Storm Giant Strength (29 Strength), a human being can lift a total of 870 lbs. There are people in real life that are stronger than someone with a Belt of Storm Giant Strength.

Everyone unintentionally allows what they say and do to be colored by the paradigm from which they evaluate reality. True, there is no such thing as "apolitical" literature. But, the gulf between a work meant to entertain and an expressly political work is so wide that the two should not really...

While I do greatly appreciate that so many people were willing to answer my inquiries, they were not actual requests for illumination.

Dragonlance, and to a lesser degree Ravenloft, had more staying power in the D&D gestalt-mind prior to 5th Edition. The picture that many people have of what they're "supposed" to be like is more clear in their minds than, say, Spelljammer's. Everyone remembers the Order of the x Robes, and...

You heard it here first, folks. Just hit the gym every day, and you too can be as strong as the son of Jupiter who grew strong by suckling the teat of Juno.