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Depends on the quality of the GM. Average quality? I can find another game that is more relaxed. Amazing quality? I would play even if we were restricted to nothing but halfling fighters!

Sounds good. I just like to mention it because Gateway and Treasures often never get played, and they are fairly neat games.

Reminder: You can actually import from Pool > Gateway > Curse > Treasures > Secret > Darkness for a complete 6 game mega campaign. You will be overlevelled for the start of Gateway when you import in, but it evens out about halfway through the game and explains what you've been doing between...

A PC that transforms into an NPC continues to do similar things to what it used to do as a PC. Sometimes that involves fading into obscurity, while other times they become a worthy contact the PCs can call upon, and once in a while they end up as a villain or villain-adjacent. I would certainly...

Vecna is Skeletor. He probably did, and it went hilariously sideways.

Don't forget, you can make a grand campaign importing from Pool* > Gateway > Curse > Treasures > Secret > Darkness. You are overleveled for Gateway, but it's a lot of fun taking one party through all 6 games.

I had people insisting they could aim the magic missile at eyeballs, into ears, up noses, etc.

Truth or Dragon. You ask someone for a Truth, and if they don't want to answer then you give them a Dragon. I didn't realize for 20 years that you pick one or the other up front. And I still don't know why people play it that way.

5.5 for me. I'll probably call it that even if something else gets traction. I won't mind whatever it ends up being called, though.

Then I will go ahead and use Very Frequently / Always as my official vote since the majority of Critical Role material is 3PP.

But it does feel like a very important distinction. Does your poll give you the data you are looking for if someone answers "Very frequently / always" when their overall policy is saying NO to any 3PP beyond a single exception? If yes, then okay. But I would personally rate groups that have...

BOTH Very frequently/always and Very rarely/never. I find Critical Role material is allowed at almost every table I've played at since they became popular. Outside of them, the policy is almost always "No" or "It hasn't been playtested enough to be trusted". It's practically a knee-jerk...

I have a homebrew fighting style I use: Versatile: Any weapon or improvised weapon you attack with can deal 1d8+1 damage. Dagger? Tavern chair? Mug of ale? Rock? Fireplace poker? 1d8+1.

I don't think many Pokémon like it either. If you see a trainer, just run!

Most sports are just Pokémon anyway. :cool:

A... spectrum.

What does the rest of the party look like? Some things that might be unbalanced can become "okay" if nobody's toes are being stepped on. A lot of balance issues are relative to what the other party members are doing - if they are playing characters in the same space, or might feel overshadowed.

Thank you. I can finally murder Screen Culture whenever I look up movie trailers!

Is 9 a dump stat? I know it's technically a negative modifier, but I still think of it as "Fairly average."

I will always remember Gygax telling me at GenCon to consider them "Points until you are Hit!" I'm sure that was just shorthand for a question he had been asked many, many times, but it always stuck with me.