Recent content by Smackpixi

My last purchase was Fiasco which I’ve long wanted and got to fill up shopping cart for free shipping on a Black Friday board game purchase. My gaming group doesn’t yet know about it though and it hasn’t made it to the table. Since everyone here mostly cares about D&D my last purchase for that...

Again that randomness is part of the fun. I have rollEd to determine who to hit target since almost always a one shot and random is part of the fun. doing the player layer first on who gets hit does seem less fun And more mean but gets same result, random killed. but I think it‘s been long...

Ok. I accept that I’m understood, and it’s generally understood that my plan doesn’t. I haven’t accepted that yet, but I’m sure I will eventually.

Yeah, I don’t think most people get what I’m going for esp. with the thoughts DnD can’t do this. My players tend toward, ”I’ll be an elf cleric cause it seems cool, tell me what they can do“. Where I’m trying to instead draw out what they want to do, whatever they want to do or look like will...

One. But does it matter? They are tasked with creating a concept, unlimited power not a concept.

Not much for cost, but then I also rewrote rules for my game. Perm circles only go to one other circle. Any number of other perm circles can lead to yours, like 30 one destination portals could lead to waterdeep. Need permission to set up a perm target. Receiving portal can have attendant...

I’m trying to get my players to create their next characters in ignorance of class abilities. My players will be starting their 3rd characters ever, so they’re not super informed on all the available options, which is good for a start. I’m trying to get them to imagine what their character...

A good GM allows players to make decisions that matter. You don’t put a vault full of gold in a game if trying rob it is something you won’t allow. Good players won’t try to expand their agency beyond what they know their GM is ready to deal with, has prepared. A GM creates a space in which...

Assume child is brilliant, precocious, and weird like you were, but not in the same way cause it’s decades later.

Well ok, sorry. But all five of the posts before me were not positive, so I offered support, and I thanked you for sharing, and there still isn’t another Garfield Positive post in this thread.

I was merely defending Garfield against people who’ve been playing DnD since B/X casting shade on a Garfield origin story.

Garfield’s pretty awesome, if you’re 9 yrs old. But am pretty puzzled to see someone post the trailer here. That said, thanks, as a pretty ad free household might not have known to look out for this for the Garfield inclined member of the household.

For real? Thanks for the pile of straw men. Just because ancient aliens don’t exist doesn’t mean there isn’t a whole lot of uncertainty about Alexander, Viking raids or even NYC in the 70’s. I presumed the OP was a genuinely curious person studying real history, you should maybe apologize to...

I think we’ve reached the point where more and more of the audience has realized that CGI is at the point where anything and everything is possible to appear on the screen so what they are seeing is meaningless. Audiences are going to be looking for more meaningfol experience.

Hamburger Hill. The ‘nam movie. epic Battles to get up hills there is no reason to actually take, over and over, every session.