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I find armor is just Temporary Hit Points with an element of choice. You can use your THP immediately, or save it to defend against...

Depends. If you are using already existing domains, it's pretty quick. Already a bunch of homebrew classes filling the grid. Longer if...

Really? I would say 5E reaches far above that. Assuming you put your highest stat as your primary, and increase that from time to...

13, one of which isn’t the same as the others in some obvious and interesting way. It’s Eberron. Has to be a Baker’s Dozen.

Is attrition based play possible in Daggerheart? Of course. You have short rests and long rests. Long rests need to be taken at home and...

The only real difference is mindset. The actual characters at the table may well be identical, mechanically - they'll just be played...

I will say, the one thing I don't get and probably never will is this idea that you shouldn't/can't have optimizers and non-optimizers...

Yes! This is exactly what I was going for. Fear reduces guilt about being "fair" so you can instigate shenanigans, and the players are...

You get Amy Adams for arrivals. You get Ryan Goslings for departures.

I'm only at 4 ... and I just saw Alien3 this last week. (Others being Social Network, Seven and Fight Club)

I haven't written an essay in quite some time, eh? I know, how can you miss me when I don't go away! That said, I still haven't...

...and Armie Hammer has been dining out on his role in this for years! I'll show myself out now.

I really enjoyed the book, looking forward to the movie. They've redesigned a lot of stuff, but that's cool.

So, Project Hail Mary is an okay book, but not Weir's best. He's stepping beyond things that are solidly known science and into more...

Rogue One hits even harder after watching the two seasons of Andor, and I consider this a mark of good story telling in that you can...