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No, Gygax meant the same thing by it that everyone else does. "Roleplaying" is used almost-exclusively to refer to the "acting-in-character" sense of "role". It is not interchangeable with "playing a role". (If this surprises you, welcome to English. You will be shocked when you find out what...

AD&D PHB, page 7: "As a role player, you become Falstaff the fighter. You know how strong, intelligent, wise, healthy, dextrous and, relatively speaking, how commanding a personality you have. Details as to your appearance, your body proportions, and your history can be produced by you or the...

The historical sense of the term in the context of "roleplaying games" is absolutely tied to the word "roleplaying" in other contexts, like "roleplaying" in therapy, and that is 100% about "pretend to be another person to some extent", and 0% about "fulfill a functional role in a thing".

Depending on your thoughts about silver dragon biology, I might give them a silver dragon egg.

No, it wouldn't, not any more than it would be possible to read the ability as getting hit 3 times, but only taking 1d10 total, because effects do not stack. "Effects" refers only to things that persist over time and then expire.

Pushback doesn't "stack". There is no point at which you are "pushed back 30 feet". Each blast pushes you back, separately. We don't accumulate a bunch of pushes, then come up with a single total distance to push you. The debuff is a persistent effect; it lasts for a period of time, and then...

It makes a fair bit of sense for it to care about weight, since that's a first approximation of force. How do you move it? By applying enough force to move it, which requires either (1) a DC 30 strength check, or (2) 8,000 pounds of force. Which we handwave and just call "an 8,000 pound object"...

You actually did exactly that in the post I quoted. "The desire to want to use any of them seems founded in nothing more than wanting to cause headaches for your DM." Seems pretty straightforward.

That seems reasonable enough, but wouldn't the best way to not argue life experiences with someone be to not dictate to them what you've decided their motivations must have been?

I think it depends a lot on the specifics of what the plot relevance is, and I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know. But I would definitely distinguish between "we put a white dude in because even though the character's Chinese, we wanted a big-name actor" (bad) and "the story has a white...

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Yeah, I was about to say, in this case, it's absolutely a considered and intentional choice by a Chinese director, and the fact that Matt Damon is not Chinese is in fact a plot point. So, yeah, that's not a good example at all of the problem. EDIT: I should point out, given that Matt Damon is...

Well, keep in mind, that post was a response to your comment about leaving an immovable rod in a swallowing creature. And I was the player, and I absolutely did it because it sounded fun and in-character. The entire group had fun. But you said: On what basis do you assert that I was not...

I should clarify a thing. It's nothing personal about CapnZapp that made me say "no" to "trust me". Gary Gygax, Monte Cook, Sean Reynolds, and Skip Williams could sign a statement that there are serious problems with immovable rods, and they should not be allowed or they will be abused, and if...

I should point out, the character did not INTENTIONALLY jump into the monster. The monster made a swallow-whole attack. On a wizard who typically had multilayer defense plans for all sorts of things (such as, say, a ring of freedom of movement). That was maybe a poor choice on the monster's...

None of this sounds like a problem to me. Yes, you can go up any distance, slowly and painstakingly, with immovable rods. And... so? Also, note that it's not "door won't budge no matter what". It's a strength check. Those can be made...

No difference in the immovable rod, really. It's just that, in PF, you could do things while swallowed whole. You had some restrictions, but you could drop an object, and you could cast spells, possibly, with concentration checks. (Which you could be built for being good at.) See, this is...

No. I'm not going to "trust you" when I have used immovable rods in several games, and had players use them in several games, often pretty creatively, and it's never been an "endless source of headaches" any more than any other magic item or spell which has a function other than "deal hit...

The "being swallowed and then activating" happened in Pathfinder, and you weren't prevented from taking actions while swallowed in Pathfinder.

Define "abuse". I don't have any objection to people being successful in using a significant hunk of their magic budget on interesting utility items that they use in creative ways to get cool results. I have never seen immovable rods produce game-breaking results, but I've seen some really...