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I really hate the concept of 'Moves.' Viscerally. I don't even particularly like the idea that D&D has an Attack action with rules that make it fundamentally different than some other ability check. It smacks of restriction for the sake of restriction, and the idea of a game limiting what a...

My attitude about cheating in RPGs has always been that the cheater is really only hurting themself. That being said, every cheater I've ever known has had a moderately strong defense in their ignorance of the rules. Players in my acquaintance just don't seem to cheat, at least not beyond the...

I've toyed with the idea of a level of exhaustion applied to PCs healed from 0 HP mid-combat, but I had it wear off at the end of the PC's next turn. Even with that limitation, I've never gotten a table of players to agree to even test it out. They must grow 'em different where you folks are.

That's funny, I fall the opposite way. Paladins don't seem substantially different in concept than martial clerics, to me, but the ranger is a class that ought to be focused on exploration rather than combat. It would take a lot of doing to get there from the baseline fighter. Bards are my...

There isn't, and that's a good point. I expect the divine and primal problems to solve themselves in oneD&D; if we're going to consolidated spell lists for the three magic power sources, those smites will have to be on the cleric spell list and those ranger spells will have to be on the druid...

I'm certainly in the minority, having this opinion, but I thought introducing subclasses should have meant the paladin and ranger becoming fighter subclasses, along with swordmage/eldritch knight. It's supposed to be a dip into another core concept; if you want to go full half-and-half, you...

The Blood Hunter just needs a qualified rules editor who is not a fan of Critical Role. It just tries to do too much and still succeeds at nearly all of it because it's a homebrew pet project. It's not broken, exactly, it's just too much. It's a Swiss Army knife. The most obvious example...

Disney themselves have iterated on this concept multiple times in the video game space; my understanding is that most of them revolve around "dungeons" related to major attractions that are usually rewarded by some kind of key (keys are a big deal to Disneyana although I've never completely...

You are the kind of dungeon master I want and the kind of dungeon master I never want to be. 😄 Seriously, you would enable all of my obsessions and feed all of my compulsions, it would be like anti-therapy and also wonderful

Snipped for brevity, not to dismiss. I think you're still making a lot of assumptions of equivalence with regard to the rules (monster choice and ability scores), but I acknowledge that the math does seem to check out, at least until I can take a more detailed look myself. ...Then I find your...

The hour grows late, but Warduke, Evil Fighter, rides to the Fortress Rising! The box art is an unsung hero, here. This is way better packaging than I was expecting.

Extreme results occur in D&D all the time, it's just that the rules of D&D only interpret 5% of them as extreme outcomes, and only in the context of an attack roll. You keep conflating results and outcomes, and it doesn't strengthen your case. As you yourself have pointed out, unlike in PbtA...

I've always assumed that it will be compatible with D&D5 the same way D&D3.5 was compatible with D&D3, or Pathfinder was compatible with D&D3.5, or a major league pitcher can play baseball with a little league team. So, both and neither. My first reaction to them releasing the SRD 5.1 under...

Bunch of apparel and book tie-ins on Target.com: https://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=honor+among+thieves This thing doesn't show up on the above search but it makes me wonder what the "Golden Archive" is: https://www.target.com/p/dungeons-38-dragons-golden-archive-gelatinous-cube/-/A-87449807...

You folks are going to get a lot further in this discussion if you agree that you all have different definitions of swing and just start talking about what people are actually writing instead of grinding your gears over who is right or wrong about the definition of swing. It doesn't matter if...

I haven't really been addressing your posts because I feel like we play very different games. I've been playing D&D since 1986 and running (for real) since 1991, and your style is not one that has ever interested me. That doesn't mean I don't respect it -- I suspect we both firmly believe the...

Understood. This is then a matter of hearsay between you and Maxperson, at least until one of you posts supporting evidence. Based on your performance in this thread, my money is on Max. For your edification: Consensus decision-making - Wikipedia That article covers the actual accepted...

Wait, I don't see a horrible, pinchy, molded-plastic mask. No sale! I got confirmation that mine has shipped!

"I am Wrong About a TTRPG Topic You Care About, Come Destroy Me With Masterful Rhetoric." ...This one seems to come up a lot for some reason!