Recent content by Older Beholder

I guess I don't understand why it's so absurd to have a line in your backstory about spending time on a boat? -I grew up on a boat until it sank and I was rescued by some monks in a fishing boat. -I grew up in a monastery that did missionary work in Chult which meant spending years on a boat...

Has that happened? Feels like we communicate through text now more than before.

I think the general idea is that the most ‘fitting’ background shouldn’t give the highest bonus, else that would be the only thing we’d ever see in play. It’s to reward those that spend some time to build a character rather than go with the most obvious choice.

I agree that floating ASI’s were popular with everyone I knew offline. Yeah, I was reluctant to bring up the Halfling thing out of fear of it starting up again. My bad.

Umm… that wasn’t the case on these forums. I seem to remember a lot of complaints. Like there were threads that went for 100s of pages at the thought that someone could play a halfling with 18 strength. Personally I had always added the +1, +2 where I wanted and will continue to do so.

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It's only an issue if you think the most default option should give the highest bonus.

That makes sense. A character I'm playing in a BECMI game atm is loosely based on the singer from the chats. Also: 'Smoko' is a better song than 'Pub Feed' ;)

Never heard of anyone cooking steak in an oven, but then I mostly eat pub meals.

I've always had a bit of a conspiracy theory that chefs push the rare = better narrative because it's quicker/ better for them to keep the tables turning over. Personally I prefer medium-well, but I'll ask for medium when eating out because they give you older cuts of meat if you ask for well done.

What's more important to creating a massive success? Hardcore superfans or the hordes of casuals? I believe that people want more romance, (romance doesn't need to be adult in nature) and so do WotC:

Sorry, that was out of line. I’ve deleted my response.

deleted with apologies to Zard.

Exactly, that's all I was saying. Speculation is not proof. Personally, I don't think TTRPG's and Video games are an exact match for audience, etc... Adult content in a game where it's all scripted in advance, that can be turned off at any time is very different to similar content in a TTRPG...