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I guess it really comes down to this- how many short rests per game day is required to balance 6-8 encounters, if that's even an ideal we're supposed to strive for?* *There's been a lot of discussion on this point, I don't want to crack open that can of great wyrms specifically. About 18...

Do the new 2024 rules not have the clarification from Xanathar's? Resistance and Vulnerability: Here's the order that you apply modifiers to damage: (1) any relevant damage immunity, (2) any addition or subtraction to the damage, (3) one relevant damage resistance, and (4) one relevant damage...

Yeah I guess you're right. But Jodie's run was cursed. So many people just wouldn't accept her. The very idea of her portraying The Doctor was enough to make some people froth at the mouth. So I don't know if it was the format that was the real issue. But like with many things "Oh that run...

Yeah, because it's not just 2e, Non-Advanced D&D or even Buck Rogers- there's also Alternity, Amazing Engine, Dragonlance Saga, Dragonstrike, Gamma World 4e, and all the darned novels to share the blame for TSR's downfall. You don't need all those games to fail in order to crash a company. One...

There's also the occasional "trap" magic sword, with an Intelligence and Ego high enough to take over most player characters- Blackrazor and Ebonbane are classic examples (to a lesser extent, the Sword of Kas). What should have been a tool to benefit warriors could easily be used against them...

Well, I can probably explain that easily enough. Ravenloft campaign. (Though curiously, a few years back, a new DM was talking about a potential campaign he wanted to run, and didn't understand why a room of older gamers groaned when he said "Ravenloft", lol).

I wish we could go back to the old days, where a multi-part story could be an entire season unto itself. I don't even know why the format was retired, other shows do it today just fine.

The random tables aren't a very good tool for telling you what the game's magic item distribution should be like. They don't describe the game as it is- published adventures typically don't have random orcs dropping +3 long swords (even though overall, most such adventures have magic items be...

The real issue with this is, I feel, is that it puts the DM on the spot. Now I know, some DM's don't really care to balance their campaigns around the player's choices- "Oh you chose to have a Druid heal you instead of a Cleric so you don't have the right spell for the job? Sucks to be you."...

I like it! I was curious how you rule on scrolls of Magi spells taken from the Cleric list- who can use them?

So I'm running a game with an all-caster party. Here's what I've noticed: *Fights take awhile, as the party has to whittle down vast HP pools. *About 50% of battles (unless I can find ways to really get them to stretch their resources) are almost pointless to actually run. The enemies are...

It does however answer the question of who told The Doctor about Belinda Chandra, implying yes, that happened.

Except, you know, the fact that there aren't new classes (well, ok, they made one in 10 years*. Wow! And it's not like you couldn't expand several existing subclasses to be full classes easily enough). *I don't count the Blood Hunter, obviously. Eh, w/e, I know it's not going to change...

I'm dubious that it would make a huge difference. But I suppose there's nothing to compare it to, since most every other class has to consume a resource to increase their damage- unless you count Clerics getting a bonus d8 damage at higher level- another class that seems denied Extra Attack on...

The more I deal with 5e, the less I like subclasses. Once upon a time you could just start play as an Assassin, or a Samurai, or a Berserker. Either through a separate 1-20 class or a Kit a 1st level character could take. Oh man, to be a Swashbuckler, I have to go to Rogue school for 2...

I don't understand why giving Rogues Extra Attack is such a bad thing. You can give it to some Bards or even Wizards, but not Rogues?

The Doctor's sense of empathy is obviously on the fritz again. He didn't give a whit about UNIT. He didn't show up to resolve the scenario. He only swung by because Conrad broke Ruby's heart.

Let's not forget Rule One, people! "The Doctor Lies".

Yeah, I think it's more likely that 15 is the Doctor who took the madness from 14.

When he calls himself a Madman in a Box, he's not joking. From most perspectives, the Doctor is insane. I don't really expect consistency of action. At any moment, he could be any of the infamous D&D alignments.