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I call it restating a fact.

It wasn’t an editorial. He said something was time-wasting slop. Like I said, don’t shoot the messenger. 😁

Hey don’t shoot the messenger. I’m just reposting his tweet.

From one of his tweets: Clearly he was calling someone’s game time-wasting slop.

I don't think I've ever done this. Something about it never worked for me. I associated PCs with certain campaigns, and with all the ideas I've had for PCs, I've always seen it as an opportunity to play a new one.

I forget, was it about whether D&D 24 is a book or not? lol

This is why I like to distinguish whether something is a "retroclone" or not. A retroclone to me is trying to emulate a specific edition of a system, with some polishing up and maybe errata that had been sprinkled throughout, maybe a few standards included. But that's just my particular definition.

Lethality is not a virtue, it's simply a playstyle and one that can change from campaign to campaign often within the same system.

Someone said "Twilight", and thought that means they get both Light based powers and Shadow based powers, so let's pick some of the best of both. And oh yeah, they can fly too.

It is to me, Micah. It is to me. (y)(y)

I haven't seen one yet that I would feel good about recommending to anyone.

Yes, that's the other part of it - individually these abilities are all very good. In aggregate, this is just a crazy subclass. How many abilities allow you to share the main benefit with the entire party? How many subclasses are just stacked across all aspects of its design (everything front...

This is it for me. I loved the idea of kits and speciality priests but some really went off the rails because 2e was notorious for things rules being designed without consideration for what was already out there. There was no cohesion as edition went on. To me, any attempt at a retroclone or...

For the most part, it boiled down to it's 2nd level ability that gave temp HP each round for every creature in a 30 foot radius or the ability to negate a charm or fear effect. Mort had a good post that back here D&D 5E - How on earth is this balanced?! Twilight cleric, more in-play evidence...

2e is the Gen X of D&D editions. Fans love it but we're too much slackers to be bothered with retroclones of it. :LOL:

So is it better in a game that a strong mechanics/simulation focus to: A) Not allow improvisational actions on the part of the player B) Apply what mechanics may be available but make the result sub par in order to bring them back to what the mechanics were designed for C) Try to find a...

I love how this whole topic comes from this blog: AI Game Master for DnD inspired text adventure RPGs Friends & Fables is the world's first generative tabletop roleplaying game (GTTRPG) inspired by DnD 5e. It has tools so you can build a world full of custom homebrew NPCs, monsters, items, and...

Okay, two checks but also multiple actions including an action per 5’ of climbing? I’m not familiar with PF literally at all so maybe actions are doled out like they’re nothing special and this is all just moot, but reading it, it just seems like a kind of trap option. Player has an idea and...

Yeah, this used to be a problem back even in 2e days where we’d want to do something different/dramatic in a fight and our DM would make us jump through all these hoops, like tumble checks, climbing checks, and then give us the same damage as if we just made an attack. His reasoning was “well I...

That’s a lot of checks for very little damage.