Recent content by saviirkad

To be frank, this reads to me like you both feel that this is a matter of superiority of one player group over another, and so assume I must as well. I do not.

I'm not sure where I said it was the only difference, but to clarify, no. It's a difference, a tangential one. When the level of hobby engagement leads someone to joining online discourse, when their exposure and experiences are now outside that of the average players, then what they observe...

You specified people in this thread. "Above average" is a quality judgment on offline players that I would not be in agreement with. I'm not making a superiority claim. "Outside the average" in terms of just numbers, yes.

I'm seriously saying that if the person is posting here, then they are not an average player, nor playing at an average table.

So, not average players.

Do you mean 24.99 as part of a bundle, or some other currency than USD? Because full books were $29.99 USD since I first started buying them in 2018.

Regardless if it is well-built or simply adequately built, it holds out. You get an average game where the players do not build with a mind toward overshadowing, and do not notice when it has happened by outlier incidence. Being overshadowed is a subjective feeling. It only happens when it is...

The average player plays with average players, on average. So at the average table, over-shadowing mechanically is unlikely. On average.

I am as well. An early blow to my HP can be described as the PC exerting themselves physically to dodge the swing, or taking an arm-numbing, pounding blow upon their shield. The visible damage and exertion begins low and builds up as the battle drags, eventually leading to the common visual of...

John Wick is also a good example of how bullets can be flying, but not every bullet is someone dropping. Like with most D&D combats, there's several attacks being thrown about, and Wick himself gets shot a whole heck of a lot.

For me this is when it starts to veer less into how I would adjudicate a gun within the same base setting as "typical" D&D and more about how our choices of inclusion tailor the setting and story being told. A weapon that we want to be used in that way, to impact targets in that way, means...

This back and forth should only go on for so long, and that point probably already passed, so I'm going to make this my last response on the matter. But there is something fundamentally missing here on what a model is or can be used for. No, D&D combat is not a unique exception, it's a...

Really for me and my group, just comes down to whether the world we're playing in has firearms as part of the visual aesthetic of fantasy combat we're going for. I don't particularly care about anachronism where it doesn't conflict with our shared headspace. Like I've heard D&D is often a...

I don't think there ultimately is a combat metric to measure, because we are discussing a game with both hard and soft features that can be engaged with in various measures that incorporate both to different degrees. An analysis based on hard metrics will always exclude too much of the game to...

I appreciate the effort, but that was already understood by me. My pushback was against that being a valuable metric to measure and that contained within its scope there are factors that would make the math seem worse by intention as one example.