Recent content by the Jester

Currently reading Morning Star, the third Red Rising book. Then on to Harrow the Ninth. And I just finished Snuff, by Terry Pratchett, who is an author about as enjoyable and humorous as Douglas Adams for me.

Perhaps Paranoia? It's very funny, but a constant series of disasters for the pcs.

Rassled with a storm giant.

Ghost wagon is drawing undead.

I really like the Sovereign (E) design. My second favorite is the refit (A)/original Enterprise. The Galaxy class is really far down my list- probably last. I just don't like its looks, and never have.

Yes... with caveats. I want to know what my character would know. So it depends/somewhere in between. Yes.

Awesome!!! One of my personal favorites returns!

Yeah, but it's neither an adventure or a setting, although it includes some setting material. It's a whole system. That said, I love me some Arduin.

Or maybe he meant what he said at the time, but something or someone persuaded him to change his position. I don't think it's too generous to acknowledge that Goodman isn't necessarily a liar. Sometimes things change. Which isn't to justify that change- I think it was probably a bad decision-...

Is there any way to get new UA stuff without a D&D Beyond account? For some reason I can't sign up and it's very annoying.

Currently reading Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock. As usual, his work is pretty dense, though this one isn't as dense as, say, Cryptonomicon. It's a big fat book with a lot of moving parts. I'm loving it.

Temporary hit points and raising a pc's current and maximum hps are both good ways around this.

Arrive at. I also find constructions such as "different to" very weird- to me, it's "different from".

It seems like any stuff that you have pre-built in your setting, such as a pre-existing dungeon or an area that has detailed politics, leans into lego sandboxing by this definition. So I guess, by dint of having lots of details in my setting worked out, I lean toward lego sandboxing. But I think...

As a one-shot or limited run, sure. For a regular long term campaign, I'd probably decline- I want to make my own character. I am fine with the DM giving me whatever equipment, though.