Recent content by the Jester

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.

A couple of years, then we tried Gamma World, Star Frontiers, and Paranoia in pretty rapid succession.

I guess it's a matter of taste, but I find it awful. Not just because it's an insult to the 'real' Castle Greyhawk, and to Gygax, but because the adventures are terribly disconnected, and for the most part are more focused on being dumb jokes than on being actual serviceable adventures. YMMV...

I play in multiple groups and run several as well. My attitude: I think the revision has a lot of power creep and includes a bunch of changes that are neither necessary nor improvements. On the other hand, there are some changes that are good. It's a mixed bag. But overall, I'm not a fan of the...

I prefer to vote with my dollar.

I have mixed feelings about this now. It doesn't seem like JG had any intention of paying those debts themselves, so all Goodman is doing is making the backers whole, since the system is set up to basically not pay Goodman any money. I understand where you're coming from; but this is a debt...