Recent content by seebs

I don't think I ever found all the rules to play by. Like, I did once run into a thing about weapon speed factors, but I didn't really understand how it worked or when it applied, so I ignored it. Did you figure that out and use it? If not, I think, probably, you weren't playing RAW. Because...

that is absolutely insane. i have seen sales estimates for the intellivision system from 3M-6M, so that would imply that >10% of owners, maybe >20%, bought a copy of this game. To be fair it was a really fun game. But it had absolutely nothing to do with D&D except for the branding.

Well, yeah. Because humans have feelings, and feelings affect them in a lot of ways, and that itself is a fact...

I have done this in the past. You can do an incredible amount of exploration adventure using the following rule, as long as the players don't know you're using it: "What you search for twice exists." It doesn't necessarily exist where you looked, but if the players looked twice, the world will...

I'm not caring about Drizzt. ... Unless Snoop Dogg is on the creative team. Honestly that'd probably at least get me curious.

If you don't think slavery is morally wrong, you've screwed up. You don't need to interrupt everything you do every five seconds to remind people that you know which things are good and which things are bad. It's actually pretty much okay to depict a thing without specifically going out of your...

Yeah, this is a very good point.

I mean, sorta? But also we had long histories of "you can portray X, but only if you show explicitly that it's evil" or whatever, and... I just don't think that has historically worked out well as a rule to have in media. I don't object to people saying "yeah we are in fact depicting this as...

Not a huge fan of the emphasis on "but the work has to portray the bad thing as bad". Hays Code actually really bad. Things like it sort of bad in general too. I think sometimes it's okay if the book doesn't explicitly handhold you through whether things are good or bad. Like, I don't really...

Okay, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but why don't you think this is an argument against bounded accuracy in full generality? "If you have an expert warrior, hitting armored enemies shouldn't pose a challenge to them. Armored foes are a challenge to other people, but that player has made...

why would we do that? i don't see anything in the rules about requiring a particular intelligence score for speech and literacy.

the spell doesn't mention any issue with moving through a space, but it doesn't need to, because the spell isn't what would be blocking movement, the animal is. and animals are just creatures, so they use the same rules they do the rest of the time, including that if they're hostile they block...

I traded email with Gary once or twice, and like, I personally liked him but also disagreed a lot with some stuff he said. That seems normal to me. I don't really see why this is a big deal. When I'm gone, if I have fans, I hope they are honest about my flaws and don't try to paper over them...

I just feel I should point out: Having had a housekeeper for a while and watched the expertise that goes into that? I would honestly not call maid "unskilled" work. Honestly true of a lot of labor in general, really.

Maybe consider, by analog, Apollo Robbins, who does a pickpocketing show. People who are aware that he's doing it are watching him, and he can at least occasionally pull off tricks like "getting the cartridge out of someone's pen, then returning the pen to the pocket it was in". What I'm...