Recent content by Staffan

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Are you complaining that 5e doesn't allow the DM to control which PC gets which item by choosing to hand out items for particular body slots? I mean, good? What business is it of the DM's who gets what item? And should it be important, why not use the...

Unlike the old days, right? And if we go way back, charm person used to be usable in combat and was a much more reliable mind control spell, with 3e nerfing it something fierce.

I'm sad to tell you, but 3e was released 25 years ago, and 4e 17. People who started with those games are oldtimers. Sure, no-one's stopping players from reading the DMG. But players shouldn't expect to be able to hold guidelines from the DMG over the DM's head. And those guidelines are based...

Yeah. After the very thorough (but perhaps not entirely balanced) rules for downtime in Pathfinder 1's Ultimate Campaigns, I was rather excited when I heard that PF2 was designed from the start to have delineated modes for both combat, exploration, and downtime. When I got the PDF, I was quite...

The DMG doesn't tell the players anything. It tells the DM. Also, 3e's body slots were designed to limit the amount of bonus-providing magic items you could have. This role is primarily taken up by the Attunement rules in 5e. And the DMG body slots were often too restrictive regarding which...

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always...

Not quite. They upgrade their success by 1 step specifically versus incapacitation effects (or, if the effect uses an attack roll or skill check, downgrade that by 1 step). Slow, which you used as an example, isn't an incapacitation effect, so it's great against bosses. Particularly if you're a...

O-Chul sounds like a fun guy.

This made me think of the old World of Darkness games, where you'd put motivations on your character sheet (there was probably some high-faluting term for them I can't remember). The thing was that you'd have two of them: Nature and Demeanor. Demeanor was what you presented as, and Nature was...

Right. What I'm getting at is that it would be pretty annoying if the BBC makes a deal with, say, Netflix for new seasons and the old stuff (both classic and revival), but Netflix ends up with a two-season gap because of long-term Disney contracts.

I would have thought Disney would have gotten rights to the seasons they partially financed in perpetuity, but I could be wrong. I guess we'll know if/when they get someone else to do it for Doctor 16 and/or 17.

Speaking of British slang, I remember reading some forum (might have been one of the off-shoots from the community here, or possibly even going back to the alt.fan.pratchett newsgroup) when an American said he appreciated the British exclamation "sod off!" because it was so "soft" compared to...

Also, at later stages, do not allow people to be wankers on your behalf.

Ash a matta o pincipel, I don think a clash should have a name itsh membesh can't ponounsh.