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One of the most gut-bustingly hysterical series of strips from Knights of the Dinner Table involved the PCs waging war against a Sergeant and his Men-at-Arms whom they'd stored in their Bag of Holding.

So then why let the products that sell the most compete? If the goal is; showcase products people might otherwise not see, don't let WotC compete. If the goal is; award the best products, don't let the people vote. Use judges. If the goal is; let the people decide, you don't need awards...

Yeah. Those aren't awards, they're marketing. It didn't occur to me that anyone thought the goal of the ENies was to act as a marketing arm for the product best able to afford it.

So, is it a good thing that the smaller product got noticed in the shadow of the bigger product?

The golden globes are awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press association and are generally bought and paid for by the studios. Most studios won't bother buying one for their summer properties because there's no perceived value there.

This is an argument against WotC entering, you realize this, yes? There's no WotC product that's The Last King of Scotland. If your goal is to get more, smaller products noticed, then under no circumstance should WotC be allowed to enter.

Well, no. The Olympics are an actual competition. Very rarely there's an element of human judgment, but for track-and-field, which is to say the classic Olympic events, there's no judges and no voting. You either run faster than everyone else, or you don't. The analogy doesn't hold even at a...

Are you sure? Because it seems like consensus in this thread is that, apart from the nomination, it's just a popularity contest. If you want to create an award for "best" as opposed to most popular, you create a panel of judges. You don't open your voting up to the public. Public voting means...

WotC already wins the most important prize every year. Their products make the most money. Why give them another prize?

10 years ago? Gmail first went online in 2004. 3 years ago. At the time it was invitation only. Small nitpick!

That's a clever bit of reasoning. I'll use that! Thanks!

I don't know, ask my GM. :)

I agree. In fact, I'd probably allow the player to make checks for both rider and mount and if either is not surprised, neither is the other.

If my monk is entangled by a spell effect, or grappled by someone, can I use Abundant Step to escape? Basically teleporting out of the grapple?

Something I've learned, working with concept artists, is that if you find yourself having to explain your idea over and over, there's a problem with the idea. There's a reason The Maltese Falcon doesn't have battles atop German Zepplins, and Indiana Jones does not descend into a world of moral...

At WotC, the brand statement for dungeons and dragons is "medieval fantasy."

Hey that's pretty nice.

Ah, I get it. So let's say someone in the party has a 12 to Spot. Adding 20 to that is 32 which means 320 feet? Can you take 20 on a Spot check?

What I'm looking for is a distance at which the encounter begins. Both sides are moving through a dense forest, both sides are hiding and moving silently. Let's imagine only one side spots the other. Would not the result of the spot check indicate how far away the opposing side is? A very good...

Two parties moving through a forest. Neither knows the other is there, but both sides are making some noise, so both sides get Spot and Listen checks. I swear I found a rule in the DMG once that told you how to adjudicate at what distance an encounter begins based on the results of these...