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It's been my experience that characters are truly created during play: not before play. My advice would be to let the character, and player, evolve naturally. I've been playing D&D for 35 years...I certainly don't play the same way I used to. If a play-style becomes problematic with the...

I think it is a stunning lapse of reason to alter an assumed basic function of a game, like the access to divine magic (not necessarily within the PC party), and then feel you wouldn't have to alter other aspects of the game.

Spell indexes should look like this: Wizard Spells 1st Level Alarm (abjuration) You set an alarm against unwanted intrusion. pg. 211 Burning Hands (evocation) Thin sheets of flame burst from your hands. pg. 220 ect... With the proper spacing and tabs of...

I was a bit surprised about the art when I first leafed through the book. There is a general softness to most of the colour choices (whether these were filtered for the book or artist choice I don't know) with the sense of children's book...if not in content. But, what really floored me, is...

I think if the PCs are willing to blow two spells and two reactions to avoid one BBEG spell...let them. That is a fair amount of resource in exchange for one simple and direct bad guy tactic. I really like the spell feint idea...can't believe I never thought of that before.

I think the new dying rules really give the party enough options to deal with fallen companions. The save or die mechanics in this edition really only put the character on the path to dying...rather than dead, like many of the other editions. I look at it as a good way to increase suspense at...

I'm an enabler...but not a Team Player...so I guess I'm nothing' but a minion? Perhaps a Silent Witness?

It is not meant to be specific. People in the know will know and, respond in kind by the way they choose to spend their money in the future. But, there is no way any sensible person will itemize grievances in business that is open to the public: because it can affect the bottom line. And...

The Lemonade War Framed Al Capone Does My Shirts and just started My Side of the Mountain I'm helping out with some grade school literature circles...really fun so far! I've loved the books...hope this last one is just as good.

From just watching the trailer, I assumed this is the movie they wanted to make when they made pitch black but couldn't. Not sure if that is relevant...or even remotely true...just an impression I had.

The intention of the question is irrelevant to the answer. All the information you need is in the question. If you need more information to answer the question, you are leaning toward misunderstanding the question and getting the answer incorrect. Inventing a narrative, or motive, to parallel...

This has very little to do with right and wrong and more to do with accuracy and precision: which are common variables for reading comprehension tests. Given the absence of precision in query one must default to accuracy in answer. You will commonly hear people talk about being 'more...

Really? Nine and a half minutes. There are people here with much better stamina than I. Now I'm probably closer to his age; but, even I see a huge generation gap here. This would have been closer to successful if he were to hire a couple of 13 year-old kids who have been making You Tube...

It occurred to me the other day that it had been some time since I had tried or bought a new role-playing game. Now, I pretty much shrugged it off immediately by thinking...well I'm just that age where I have what I like and I am comfortable with what I have. But, then I thought of the...

I definitely have streaks of favorites. I think it is a matter of over-feeding the fix. I tend to burnout and look for the new an shiny...and sometimes the new and shiny is actually the old and moldy under a different shade of light.

Learning to watch and listen. So many people think they have it figured out. There are a lot of little daily assumptions we make about major and minor aspects of life that we spend no real time or thought on. Great authors, artists, and directors are observers of humanity in such a profound...

What a sensible fellow. I always know how much I like being mugged to know my personal vulnerabilities, car-jacked to know my mobile vulnerabilities...and napalmed to know my pain vulnerabilities. What a nice fellow.

I'm resisting the bile of change in the back of my throat... The News page is so much easier to read and interact with. Really good work. Love the colour scheme.

I stopped using the experience rules, as written, in 1982. But we have several jokes/stories of 'experience mills' involving all sorts of contraptions. One of my favorites was running a horde of sheep into a dungeon to spring traps, and flush out bad guys, and then demand the experience for...

Don't forget that, rhetorically, the world and NPCs are a shared experience the players don't directly control--while their characters are individualized. Many people, especially guys, like to talk competitively about mundane things as a form of an inclusive discussion. So, this might just...