Micah Sweet's latest activity

Pure and simply, the community has become too wound up about balance and expedience. Can't have a pet monster or follower trivialize an...

EN Publishing just finished a Kickstarter for a new A5e book explicitly dealing with those parts of the game. Pets & Sidekicks.

Folks probably won't understand my perspective. Since I'm in the middle of working through it I'm not sure I fully understand it yet...

Did someone teach you that a story should have one, singular, "THE point"? That person was incorrect. Wow, are you wrong. IT...

One factor might be that in the OP you mention Shadowdark. I think that it's a great game and it's very popular, but it is not (and does...

I find it a bit odd that a house rule to fix something could be unhelpful, but if someone were to publish the house rule on DnD Beyond...

Fine for me, but people sometimes get funny about being told to play another game.

I think mainly suggesting near systems (e.g. for DnD, A5E or lord of the rings 5e or ToV) that may address the issue, some rules...

Please provide me an example of a useful response then, other than sympathy (which is perfectly valid).

Have you tried Shadowdark? P.S. I think it's a masterpiece, BTW.

Again, the fact that I can't personally change capitalism doesn't mean I shouldn't have and express my concerns.

But they don't have to know about the product or the customers in order to make those decisions. They just need to own enough of it to...

No, would you? Come on, man.

My response to this is simply to nerf or remove most options that circumvent challenges like light and food (basic survival...

I think something was lost when multi-classing moved away from the AD&D model. Given the way XP worked, a two-multiclass character would...