Recent content by Willie the Duck

If your goal is character creation with no specific campaign to join or game to play, GURPS and Hero System are still outright winners. D&D 3rd edition not bad either, if you make something above 1st level.

The question is vague, and there are multiple ways to approach it. The perfect movie for me is one I want to watch. Movies that I think are perfect approach perfection is a different category. We can (and should) discuss both. Perhaps better to clarify which you mean ('perfect for me' vs...

This is apparently specifically for D&D 5e (2024), and specific to fighters. To each their own. I can't go online without being advertised 3-6 new 3PP products that are for the most part new subclasses, feats, spells, and monsters.

Sure. Something like the AD&D 2nd edition Complete Fighter's Handbook, or more importantly what it aspired to do. Like, if you wanted to play a bronze- or stone-age campaign, not just how to do it, but how to do it but still fight dragons and ghosts and such. Same with a sea-faring campaign...

This part is key. Obviously making them more survivable and better at fighting (maybe on-par with the cleric or the like) is a reasonable quality of life improvement, and much appreciated. However, making what they do actually useful, relevant, and ever advisable at each stage of play is the...

This seems like more things to track and more tactical considerations to take into account (both for you and your opponent), and could potentially exacerbate the wait between turns that make a 'miss' turn so frustrating. I can see the reason to want it, but one would have to be very sure that...

Play soccer mom to a bunch of people who would fit in here. A little of that too. Although probably not as much as I pretend. I have a great team, just with a lot of drama and you sometimes wish that Simpson drug Focusyn was real.

In my home 5e(2014) campaign -- the one my co-DM learned from -- I had a house rule that you didn't regain any hp on a long rest, only all your HD. He repeating it (as a gamebook rule, apparently forgetting or having missed that it was a house rule) to a group of kids he was teaching to play the...

Let me guess, on the Brits United thread?

Oh great, now I'm picturing tiny little fishes in Monty Python Spanish Inquisition outfits yelling 'Nobody expects anchovies on pizza!'

Like béchamel, alfredo, or pesto sauces?

Now I totally wish we had gotten a movie version of Hitchhiker's with her dad as Zaphod or one of the other high-energy characters.

Okay, there is so much unspoken subtext going on in that post that I know any response I give won't be addressing the actual position.

If that's how you feel about the matter, more power to you. To me, 'I didn't do the thing you wanted me to have done because I'm ignorant of it,' is hugely different from, 'I didn't do the thing you wanted me to have done because it was never my goal.'

"of your own" No, I keep raising everyone else's. ;)