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I was thinking more, “no SOB ever won a war by dying for his country, but by making some other SOB die for his.”

I feel that there is a lot of received wisdom in this that really doesn’t pan out. I’m not sure “number go up” is an inherent draw of TTRPGs, in and of itself. And 5E definitely has fat sacks of HP—as did 3E and PF. Bounded accuracy isn’t something I personally care for, but only because...

It’s also extensible. Moderately difficult task for a low skilled person, but reasonable for someone with high skills? Sub 1d8+12 for a d20. Extremely unlikely, unless highly skilled, 1d4+16. Any schlub slightly above mouth breather, but still possible to have said mouth breather fail, sub a...

It was amazing how this was never an issue prior to making D&D a single mechanic game. “Roll under” skill checks are far better in this regard as they typically aren’t something that should really be class-level dependent—or at least not directly so. There are some interesting articles...

This post makes me imagine a fantasy Gen. Patton slapping PCs back to positive HP.

I think it still ultimately is a resource management game. It’s just that the resources are less arrows, rations, and lantern oil, and more spells and “once per long rest” actions. This sort of gets to a larger issue with some of the fundamentals of the game mechanics. Really since 3E we’ve...

There is more to making resource management a part of the game than just ticking off boxes. I mean, I don’t think anyone (well, given the amount of replies to the opposite, maybe I’m wrong) really enjoys Accounting & Actuaries.

In 30+ years of playing, I can barely remember anyone bothering to keep track of ammo, rations, water, or even encumbrances or spell components, much less PC lifespans.

Y’all need to get a room or something. At any point an Internet forum thread turns into two people quoting and and trying to dunk on each other, nothing of value is being presented. Can either of you at this point even remotely establish how your argument pertains to healing power creep in...

This kind of codified crap—for lack of a better term—was part of the worst parts of all the TSR era stuff. We don’t need rules to “keep the players in their places” any DM should be able to kill his or her PCs without much effort. It’s threading the needle between no challenge and outright...

I’d say that 3. is a bit of an overstatement. There’s a direction in there to deal with such situations, but it’s not necessarily as explicit as you’re summarizing.

I’ve got 26 of them. The one part of my collection that is deficient is basic D&D and pre-2E modules, of which I have nothing, except the 5 1E OA modules.

Faiths & Avatars, Powers & Pantheons, and Demihuman Deities. The format in these books was so popular that AuldDragon has been updating all the deities from the rest of the D&D mythos into the format.

This is expanded upon in DMGR5 by Jonathan Tweet. He goes very far and discusses other methods to create non-linear chances, by doing things like making difficult actions use say 1d4+16, which creates situations where there is a high minimum threshold on the ability to succeed or using die...

I’m not a young man by any stretch and was around for most of this stuff. As someone who has both the OA book and the Kara-Tur boxed sets (and the rest of the OA series modules) it’s not really an apples to apples comparison between the two items. My point was how much of the mechanics first...

I did hire a different attorney. Won on a 5th amendment basis on appeal. Lost first time on merits.

Agreed. I’ve been involved in one appeal (defendant in an NC misdemeanor criminal charge) and honestly, it is basically an exponential process regarding attorney fees to go from district to superior court. Who is funding this? I thought these nuTSR people were broke?

Too fiddly to me, I’d just do CON in HP 1/day every five levels for martial builds and 1/4 or 1/2 for every one else. Just make it a fixed number and based on ability scores.

I did check, and it’s in both the OG and black reprint.

Back to the point, was Monte the one who added healing spells swapping to 3E?