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I just felt dismissed and insulted by the survey. It almost seemed intentional. I mean, they could have just given older respondents the same amount of questions, then just discard them. We would never have been the wiser. Then, they tried to triggered the 23-year trap shortly thereafter and...

I'm happy for you, really. I still like the game too. Did you happen to take that survey Wizards of the Coast released back in 2022, or thereabouts? The survey that asked how old you were at the beginning, then gave you a number of questions about what you would like to see in the future...

If your monsters are performing poorly, either because they're too easy to hit or they don't last long enough, don't increase their Hit Points or Armor Class, instead increase their Attack Bonus. Increasing Hit Points makes combat last longer; which could be a solution but it can also increase...

Here is a term that I submit for popular Internet approval: Experience Bulking. Experience Bulking is when you play through many encounters very quickly in order to get a Party of Characters up to a certain power level.

I think we're saying the same thing. I think what I'm saying is we don't see 900 page Adventure Paths because that would be absurd. So, instead, we have 200 page Adventure Paths which need a workaround to advance Characters as advertised, thus Milestones. Perhaps these Adventure Paths are...

Oh, I see, so this is a weakness of Big Gaming. Another possible way to cut the legs out from under Hasbro. Cool.

One of the problems with adventure paths is they would be 900 pages long and cost $200 (USD) of they actually had the experience in the needed for leveling as advertised. l am beginning to see this as a weakness of the adventure path format that we overcome with Milestone advancement. (Perhaps...

Yeah Morrus, but, I have to buy the whole book just to find out there are only 2 or 3 adventures from the anthology l would actually run. I'm getting sick of that.

I have to wonder if the rise in the popularity of Milestone level advancement is connected in some part to the rise in popularity of Adventure Paths that do not provide enough encounters to level up with Experience Points due to page count constraints. "Enquiring minds want to know".

In my opinion Wizards of the Coast does this because it's what we want. It's not what I want anymore. I want 2 or 3 level adventure--I want modules. But, 15 years ago I was very excited by Adventure Paths that take you from 1st to 20th level. So, the industry gave me what I wanted. However, I...

Yeah, you also see this in Shadowdark where halflings can turn themselves invisible each day for three rounds. I guess stealth is hard to codify in a way that prevents abuses.

We used to try and defeat wraiths, and vampires, and ghosts with antimagic because they're undead, which is obviously magical. That was until someone pointed out that life is a miracle so also obviously magical.🙃

I see they have a D&D 5e nexus but it seems to lead to Tal'dorai. I assume there will only be third party published stuff there.

What is Demiplane? Is it like Herolab?

I asked my players' characters to leave their weapons and armor at the entrance booth because, you know, it's a carnival. If they don't want to part with their precious weapons (they didn't), I asked them to at least peace bind them with a flimsy piece of ribbon. I didn't inform them of this...

I call it the 50th anniversary edition.

My world of Everbee takes inspiration from the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. I have a whole series of saints correlating with cleric specializations. And a whole history of the ongoing conflict between the Geardan and Grimman sects.

Yes! I mean what else are we going to do? I don't drive across town burning expensive gasoline and paying bridge tolls to turn my nose up and hold out for better imaginary treasure. And if that +1 sword doesn't have a name, I'm going to give it one. 🙃

These "miniatures" remind me of the guy who would show up to Pathfinder Society games with a fat-guy-sitting-on-a-couch eating-a-bucket-of-chicken as a miniature.

Oh yeah, Sword Art Online is one I would actually like to see them do, and they'd probably do it well.