Recent content by Rystefn

There's also not a rule against any other player "fudging" the dice rolls. Or altering their own hit points in the middle of a fight. Or any of the other things being suggested for DMs to do to cheat in the middle of a fight. But you would 100% call it cheating if anyone who isn't the DM did it...

If you think it's cool and fine and perfectly above-board to change the roll, then do in the open, in full view of everyone at the table. If you actually believe that there's nothing wrong with it, then you wouldn't hide it. If you fudge behind a screen, then you are admitting that it's not...

It's wild to me that someone can say with a straight face that there's nothing to do in KotB except go to the caves and murder everyone there. I've run this module many times, converted it to every edition of D&D that exists to do so, and I've never had a single group of players do this. Even...

"Fudging" is cutesy baby talk to obfuscate what you're actually doing: Cheating. Honestly, I'm vastly more okay with the players doing it than the GM. D&D, like nearly all ttRPGs, is a cooperative game, not a competitive one. Coming from a place of trying to "win" is missing the point a bit...

This is absolutely incorrect. The books depict a lot of those acts. The books 100% include graphic "on-screen" depictions of Dany, as a minor, being raped by Drogo, for example. So you can take one off, I guess, since as far as I recall, the incest stuff was only ever stated as fact, not...

No. You are 100% wrong. You could, and I did. There is zero percent chance I am misremembering this. I played it day one. I shot it from a distance. I played it one other time, a year later. I also shot it from a distance. I never played it again until launch. I never dealt with it any other way...

This is factually incorrect. I was a day EA player and I very distinctly remember the first time I encountered this. The fishers around it were mind controlled to clear away rubble and dig it out, which is a very clear reason. You could absolutely just shoot the thing in the face with your bow...

This is the "my uncle is a good cop, though" of answers. Of course his stories are that he's a good person. What a meaningless metric. Well, I'll see your anecdote, and match it with one of mine. There was a guy in my friend group in high school that was a colossal asshat who constantly started...

lol... chat bots have been passing the Turing Test for decades. We still don't have anything like actual AI. We're not even heading in that direction in any real or meaningful sense. The success of crappy trend-copying algorithms we have now and pretend are making art (success at making tech...

This is a study of literal children. If your assertion is that you never get better at basic arithmetic after the age of nine... well, you're the reason I made the comment you responded to, and I sincerely hope you get the version of D&D that doesn't require you to take off your shoes that you...

1) This was true long before pdfs were invented, to the point that in the 90s, they more or less openly admitted that their published adventures were written to be read, not played. (And they don't admit it now, but I rather strongly feel like it's still true, otherwise a lot of the glaring...

I wish I could argue against this... but we are operating in a hobby where even people who are deeply invested, have been playing for a long time, and play in multiple widely divergent systems can say with a straight face "subtraction is significantly more difficult than addition" and everyone...

This is equally true of D&D. People don't talk about it a lot, but the simple fact is that huge numbers of ttRPG books literally never see play. The further you get from core "PHB" style books, the more true this becomes. The majority adventure module type books sold are never played, only read...

"Bounded accuracy" is marketing speak for "the numbers are lower than other 3e clones." That's it. Pretending it's an actual design paradigm is hilarious. The phrase exists as an excuse for the lower numbers to try to mollify the 3e fans they were trying to lure back.

People are quibbling over the semantics, but it's very clearly a new thing, and "evergreen, 5e is the final edition" is a hilarious lie. Based on what we've seen so far, the scale of changes are pretty fairly analogous to the 3/3.5 transition, and we can reasonably expect to see more or less the...