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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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I've always felt they leaned much more into task, rather than action resolution, too (though the ones I'm familiar don't fully commit to...
Jun 22, 2025
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What other fantasy games are out there?
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Its not just the die roll but the all-or-nothing element. Fundamentally, I think 5e went about reducing mod bloat entirely the wrong...
Jun 22, 2025
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Three hours in ER today with my dad. He's fine, but there are better ways to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Jun 22, 2025
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Tell your overdue Kickstarter story
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I may be more tolerant of some problems that delay products, even for a very long time than others (and I understand why some others are...
Jun 22, 2025
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This seems flawed to me. The GM acts as the PCs' senses and needs to accurately convey information they would have. In the modern era...
Jun 22, 2025
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Power is in your hands too though, if you stop responding to them, then conversation will also stop. To @hawkeyefan point though it...
Jun 22, 2025
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Or, as I point out in regard to this all the time, you can just stop yourself. That's the thing; people don't have a right to tell...
Jun 22, 2025
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From my perspective, it's not about what you care for or not (I do not care what you or anyone cares for or not). I am quite confident...
Jun 22, 2025
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Unless you're actively in combat or a dangerous environment, that 3.5 character is presumably taking 10. With any positive Strength...
Jun 21, 2025
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Sure. It was an unforeseen problem when TTRPGs were young and largely untested. We've had plenty of time for that to get better, for us...
Jun 21, 2025
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Its been so long since I read any of the RM systems I didn't feel competent to comment on it. I think I've seen something like that...
Jun 21, 2025
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I'm not going to comment on game I do not own nor have read, though I'm not usually a fan of that sort of initiative.
Jun 21, 2025
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And thank you for so eloquently highlighting my point. Three separate checks to get through a kitchen, multiplied by each PC and any...
Jun 21, 2025
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Though part of this is how severe "failure" is assumed to be in a lot of cases; if you can recover from individual failures, and the...
Jun 21, 2025
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Not saying that you don't already know this, but, for the audience, I would point out that 10 rolls at 2% is not equal to 20%. That is...
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