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The answer is always talk to your DM. However, in this instance, there's no specific reason to think otherwise. They are transported to an area where a constant ongoing transit mode they have (they have an innate climb speed) is applicable, and thus would normally be able to use it. If not, and...

I don't think Charisma is the real concern. OP has never been convincing in all these improbable tales where their players are being so unreasonable and/or incompetent or the like.

The Clockwork Sorcerer is a sorcerer who gets around the rather limiting spells-known issue by getting free Absorb Elements, Shield, Enhanced Ability, Knock, Counterspell, Dispel Magic, Banishment, Polymorph, Animate Objects, and Telekinesis*. *or a similar list of generally useful...

I think the word you are looking for is "sheeple." Believe me, barring someone truly new to the internet, we've all seen this routine before.

The entire Madeline Pryor plot arc is one with enough garbled storytelling that it's best not to look too closely at it in the comics where all the supporting facts were well-established. There was no way it was going to work well as a single-episode plot. It's especially jarring because the 90s...

It's worse than that. This is the edition where acting outside of your expected role could effectively double to quintuple the effort/adventuring of gaining levels. This happened through the training rules*. Since most of your XP came from GP acquisition, you tended to have approximately as much...

I think Reynard provided a helpful response for you, but it's probably not bad to analyze this a little further. I find it helpful to remember the following: Your game is your own. No one is coming for your game books to replace them with things you do not like. Whatever way you played in that...

Oh, definitely. I always assumed that travel time shouldn't be the same. One because they are both abstractions and simplifications, but also because the activity is different (speed when measured in rounds is when you are being more cautious, but also willing to exhaust yourself more quickly).

The movie -- it wasn't good. It wasn't terrible, it just had no reason to exist, didn't add anything of its own, and wasn't all that interesting. Of the sequels, I think Afterlife was a perfectly respectable 'tangential' film (took place outside NY, focused more on Egon's granddaughter, etc.)...

...and nice knowing you all. Too bad, it was a nice thread.

For me, oftentimes, the thieving is a backstory. We don't spend much time thinking about exactly what Han Solo smuggled*, because it all took place before he did the things we really care about him doing. Likewise, character X in my game Y will often have developed their skills used in acts of...

I think this is one of those cases where we've ended up pretending we're a lot farther apart than we are. IMO everyone knows there's a point too far with agreeing to participate in an activity and then not substantively participating. Also IMO everyone knows that hobby activities do not have...

Oh, and to be clear, I 100% get that and agree with it too. I think, for people who want to focus on “verisimilitude “ and “simulation,” it should be on the top of the list. Top of the list for what they want to answer for their game world (and thus why ideas threads like this can be so...

The game rules have always been rather player-facing -- economies that don't make sense, monsters or magic items that would destroy the world if left to their own devices, occasionally 10' poles that cost more than 10' ladders made out of two 10'poles, etc. In the case of monsters, I've always...

This doesn't change the my position on your analysis at all (IMO, you are right). However, the damage average for a d8 goes from (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8)/8=4.5 to (4.5+4.5+3+4+5+6+7+8)/8 = 5.25.

I found (BX and BECMI) fighters to be interesting enough to play. Mostly in that, in the absence of any skill system or grand world-interfacing rules, playgroups and playstyles tended to let you do many things ad hoc, and a lot more of the challenges were anyone-can-try ). I know the old 'makes...

You are definitely not wrong. There are people like this, and at some point they become a burden too much. However, in my own personal experience, these people whose lack of investment in the game rises to the point of being detrimental to others are right up there with these examples you are...

Thanks for that clarification.

It is, at the very least, on-brand for the hobby. Who here hasn't run into someone clearly trying to establish their manliness by advocating for a specific TTRPG/edition/playstyle/dedication to some goal like ('realism' or 'rules as written')/etc. over the other options? Isn't the later...

Can you give some examples? I'm trying to think of some, but I keep running into things BECMI has such as wilderness generation, domain management, mass combat, followers, mercenaries and hirelings, spell research, strongholds, taxation, high level quests, and planar travel.