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It's interesting to see what actors play tabletop games, and then it's interesting to see people be introduced to D&D that you'd either have never thought of in combination with gaming (I'm thinking of Dimension 20's Dungeons and Drag Queens here) or people you'd have thought would have been...

One of my favorite Dragon articles was about using cursed items for positive effects. The author had started when he found a dagger of venom and kept it. The DM said that the poisoning was Evil, but the player filled the dagger with holy water and would use it against undead - and as he said...

One of my favorite set ups in a Dragon fiction was a party that went after a white dragon... that breathed fire because, come to find out, it was a WIGHT dragon.

I vote for Gangbusters. I mean, any system where you have a class where you can go from a Jimmy Olsen to a J Jonah Jameson and get XP for yellow journalism? :) Actually, one cool concept, way ahead of its time, was as you got xp, you could spend it to buy new skills like lockpicking or combat...

I think that's the problem and why we need to be pro-active about making our changes. It doesn't matter the situation - all too often, the oppressed or bullied, once they get some element of control and power, use it against others. It's not always conscious - when all you have is a hammer...

In Xcrawl (back in the 3.x days at least), magic items were limited in that only X company made Fiery weapons, only Y company made Thundering weapons, etc. So trying to find certain items required winning dungeon crawls sponsored by X or Y company. That's one concept I love from the world -...

Sorry to trigger you. My first comment was about Gary's previous comments... which were, surprise, referenced in the foreword to the book. I apologize I wasn't clear enough about that for you or others. It's not limited to just what he wrote in the 1970s if he wrote about it in the 2000s when...

I feel that part of the problem with this is our culture is becoming more divisive. This is known. Where the problem comes in regards to Gary, I feel, is a lot of people are trying to use things he's said against another side. Some are pro-sexist, and some are anti-sexist. Neither, I feel...

Oh, I think the Hasbro purchase would be purely for political clout - fighting back against the 'woke culture'. $9B is a drop in the bucket for him. He's buying appearances if he buys Hasbro, I think. Twitter is just pure data to feed AI, and he'd have access to all the data that's come before.

I think the real value to Musk buying Twitter is that it's free fodder to feed his AI development. I'd seen an interesting video with Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank talking about a conversation with his son about investing in Tesla. Mr Wonderful was like it's just a novel car company, but his...

He has more 6/10 movies on IMDB than I expected. No. But, I don't see a lot of big budget movies, so to me, it's chicken/egg. What could he do with a solid script and solid budget? We'll never know. I suspect also alot of his films, since most seem to be video game adaptions, are like...

The thing that blows my mind is that Alec Guiness was going to get a percentage on everything... including the toys. That's an insane amount of cash.

I have respect for Uwe Boll because he said in an interview he would rather take the $60M and make three movies rather than flush it all on one. There's just a lot of waste in film making - or companies paying themselves, as we saw in Peter Jackson's lawsuit against New Line over LotR making no...

Post-WW3 IT and medical support. (Twilight 2000 4e)

My Wyrmwood dice tray that I was recently able to pass down to my oldest son when he started into D&D.

It used to be on DDB where you could buy the class or spell or item out of specific books for about $2 each. The nice thing was, if you ended up coming back and buying the book, they discounted it by what you'd previously spent.

It seems this planar consortium would be on par with the East Indian Company from Pirates of the Caribbean/real life. And as far as Esteban and Steve? Why not Stefanie? Why use his name at all as a 'friendly' PC?

I would say the most common example of a group check where one person failing doesn't automatically make everyone fail would be foraging and surviving in the wilderness. One person screwing up Survival doesn't mean they all starve - one person can make the check and find X pounds of food...

Even going back to AD&D 1e, Invisibility does not make you silent. You still make noise - so you are still able to alert someone that they need to start searching. 1e even specifically notes that they are not silenced. Even looking back to 2e, the Invisibility spell had rules specifically for...

Personally, I don't mind stealth being a check that is done individually. For one thing - there are many ways around it. Going the mundane route, temporarily remove your armor. Magically silence the loud individual. As a group, use Pass Without Trace to help. The other thing is ...