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I would say bad adventures were probably bad under the original rules - in some cases I've run the same adventure under 2E, 4E, Dungeon World, and 5E, and it held up as a solid adventure (despite having to be more or less re-written, encounter-details-wise for 4E and 5E). I haven't seen any...

I have to admit I am fascinated that so many people do this, as I've been running RPGs for 34 years now and never done this. I'm probably "doing it wrong" lol.

Interesting. The cinema I saw it in was 80%+ empty for a 7.45 showing on a Friday night. To be fair, it's not like people were going to other movies either - there was hardly anyone in the theatre generally. So maybe relatively for that cinema it was a good showing (I've seen that place be...

I mean, I guess the difference is you're going "Actions speak louder than words", and I'm going "When someone tells you who they are, listen", and I think both are valid but we'll see what the reality is.

I absolutely agree re: compatible. That's basically what 4E did with Essentials and it worked fine. Different names would mean complaints re: classes went down to virtually nothing, IF those old classes were still available to all in 1D&D - trouble is, after a certain point, they will get harder...

Thankfully that wasn't on the British version. I think we have a slightly lower tolerance for "cringe" than the US and something that cringe would have people leaving the cinema. We did have John Boyega doing a "Turn your phones off pls!" thing, but I think that's a Vue cinemas thing - and the...

Fair enough I just think a lot of people will be nonplussed.

Oh and also - world's most surprising Bradley Cooper cameo! I was like "WTH this Halfling is Bradley Cooper?! Am I seeing things?". I know he loves a good cameo or voice role, but I was still really surprised. It was kind of weird that they made him and the other halfling small all over rather...

This made me literally spit out my coffee with laughter. Good grief lol. If he gets this going, I really pray he makes a Dragonlance TV show, not a movie.

Yeah they specifically mention even a Cleric being unable to heal/raise someone, and the "Speak with Dead" token the Sorcerer uses (it seems like he has a token for each of his spells, that's just how this Wild Sorcerer works, I guess - it's kind of an interesting approach), he specifically...

Yes this is exactly right. If it just did +3d12 damage per hit it would be insanely, hilariously OP. That's an average of +19.5 per attack! If it does it once per round and has limited charges/day or something it's pretty high-end up not insane. And yeah True Resurrection should work because...

I get what you're saying, but I don't think that is how most people approach this issue, and I don't think it's necessarily a useful way of thinking about things.

I have very mixed experiences with written adventures. Either they vibe with me, and I'm like "Yeah, that's what I'd have done" or better yet "Oh that's like what I'd have done if I was way smarter!", and I'm quite into the adventure and know I will have a good time running it. Or they don't...

I mean, WotC have weird attitudes to popularity. With their surveys, they hit a tiny, tiny percentage of their playerbase, and I daresay one that's not actually indicative of the larger playerbase, but the older, male-er, much nerdier side. So on one level, that's ignoring popularity in favour...

Annnnnd I'm out. It's really sad, because Starfleet Academy as a series had been predicted since the late 1990s. A lot of people were convinced the show after VOY would be it. I personally absolutely laser-predicted ENT, right down to the visual design, so was insufferably smug for a bit when a...

That's a fascinating angle, though beta canon. I like it.

I mean, maybe, or maybe Q's assertions re: humanity becoming their equal are like, wildly long-term, like tens of thousands or even millions of years, and in both cases, Picard would not likely be much of an impact on that.

Did they? I haven't see WotC call 5E 5E much, so I'm surprised they said that, but I'll take your word for it.

Fair enough, I formally remove you and anyone else who hasn't used dramatic language or acted like this some kind of dire insult from what I was saying - I didn't intend it to apply to people who were being calm but I should have been clearer. And yeah if you see all of them as 5E, sure, fine...

He literally told them to, though I was surprised they followed his instructions. Yeah that was surprising and I liked it a lot. Also the ancestor had exactly the amount of attitude I might expect from a line of sorcerers descended from Elminster (who probably has like, thousands of...