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Well, some of that gets back to how you're structuring characters in your system. In a purely skill based system, or one with skills...

I had issues out of the gate with it. Mai9nly it broke the ambiance like an unwelcome visitor. Later, I learned that folks felt the...

Rather than calling them "cracks," I like to refer to it as "cratering." I said it survived millions of miles of space, but I didn't...

One of the things often embedded in bad faith arguments is both the assumption and the insistence that the other party share all the...

Yeah, the gamifying of their arguments is what gets tiresome right quick.

That’s cool! On so many levels, That. Is. COOL! I’d love to do something like that, but I lack: 1) a spouse 2) fingerprints

My old boss was talking more about brittleness than softness. As you say, a scratch is one thing, having the whole stone shatter or at...

I suspect "skill monkey" is not what they're talking about, but you're not wrong that what exactly counts in the archetype is a pretty...

We’re planning on running a full campaign with it starting next year. We’ve just been doing some one shots for the past few weeks to try...

Well, the problem is that the class originally called "Thief" has changed in both name and function over time in D&D multiple times, and...

I was just curious. I backed SotWW, but it may well be that I'll never play/run it, and I did play a whole campaign of SotDL so I wondered.

Except I was around when the thief came into existance, and other that whatever they called secret strike back then, it was nothing but...

Yet they clearly do in a lot of places. Ask why the D&D magic system has propagated so many places.

I don't wear jewelry -- I don't care for it. That said, my wife got me a wedding ring with a band of meteorite worked into it. It's the...

I'm theoretically a boomer, but never really associated with them.