Parmandur's latest activity

Breaking the quote down to respond to point by point. I’m sorry, but this claim is extremely dubious to me. 5.14 has always been...

I get some of what he says, but he expends a lot of words in the longest paragraph of your quote complaining about NPCs with ability...

I didn't say any of that. I didn't use the word "any" or mention different genres. No need to come in snarky, my dude.

A CR 10 NPC is meant to be very significant.

Yeah, Gygax was living pretty lavishly.

I think When We Were Wizards gets into some of the specific figures for the Hollywood years, I remember someone mentioning that mansion...

I believe they were referencing the complaint in the OP about how NPCs are not sticking to a strict 3d6 bellcurve for their abilities...

Building on that, I think player characters are not particularly exceptional, especially at level 1. I see no reason why a commoner who...

Honestly, 2014 didn't assume that sort of simulationist landscape either, so it's not even really something I'd consider a change?

It looks like the Guard Captain is a 10th level character judging by its hit dice. It's perfectly reasonable for a 10th level of any...

The assumption that "other humans" (and using that term itself shows a bias) should fall in the 3 to 18 stat range per an average 3d6...

My players at D&D Club narrowly avoided a TPK in the last game before Xmas Break, and I am far from an adversarial DM, so I don't think...

Honestly no idea what this means...?

Right, they did announce the more or less full release schedules in 2022, 2023, and 2024 for the following year...but prior to that, and...

Always assume a game will be mediocre ahead of tied, just on the law of averages...but it's nit necessarily a one to one comparison with...