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I mean, the reaction tables exist for a reason. A party (perhaps one bearing gifts, even just a couple heads of your enemy) coming up to your door (instead of through it) talking about a team up to get rid of those pesky <other group> 'once and for all' might change the dynamic. Or at least...

Use your best judgment on healing potions and scrolls. Quick check -- are you using morale rules and reaction checks? IMO, the module is purposely designed to be a real slog if the PCs just go out and resolve all problems by violence to extinction. Instead, they are supposed to make (short...

Also, I think a lot of people remember BX or BECMI rules (particularly combat rules) as part of AD&D because they started with one of those sets. They moved to AD&D, but really played the old system, just with AD&D classes and monsters and weapon charts and such.

One thing I would like out of a ritual system is to actually make cleric and wizard nonessential party members. There are a number of spells that are relatively required in (many forms of) certain levels of play -- lesser/greater restoration, remove curse, raise dead/resurrection, plane...

Knew it was coming the instant the OP didn't state TTRPG. Oh, let's be clear, if sports are included in applicable games, then clearly dodgeball, ping pong, and figure skating have the best fiction. :p

If they need to be preserved*, I wouldn't mind them now being underdark-orcs or orcs that settled above a field of kryptonite/touched the gem of Cyttorak/were bitten by a radioactive plot device. *and I'm not sure that they do.

Welcome to the club. We have cake. I am still thinking "when does adult life start feeling like my dad made it look when I was 10," and I'm a lot older than he would have been then.

I have to agree. The finale was... fine, I guess. Most of the ending of the Dominion War was pretty good. About half of the Sisko-Dukat-Kai Winn battle of the Space Gods narrative was good*. *honestly, there wasn't a lot there to work with. The Changelings/Dominion were simply better developed...

And that I can absolutely get behind. I simple, well-reasoned and stated analysis that accurately describes the topic of discussion, its consequences, and a simple statement of preference against it (all with no straw rebuttals, conflating other issues onto the topic, nor denigration of the...

I responded to an entire, multi-sentence block of text declaring that someone else was advocating never saying no, players always succeeding, and no challenges. That isn't what the person they were accusing of such a stand had advocated.

emphasis added. I think the bolded clause is the fundamental issue here. In the specific situation where the DM automatically goes along with any suggestion the players make that sound epic, then rule of cool will outperform other methods of achieving success. However, that's true of any...

I think Dungeons & Dragons as a whole should get credit for the most recent movie, Stranger Things, the 80s cartoon (which, in the context of a throwaway 80s syndicated cartoon/22-minute commercial, is pretty good), and maybe even just the parts of the 2000 movie where Jeremy Irons clearly...

With the exceptions that their ability requirements make is hard for them to have as high an Int as the mage, and that they do no automatically gain any spells as they level. Those two things really hampered the 2e bards I saw in-play bitd. The other interesting (/favorite obscure) thing was...

My hot take from a rather limited experiment size is that, in general*, it's powergaming at the same level as any other MC/dip for mechanical advantage. Sure, throwing 3 levels of Battlemaster onto Rune Knight has some real synergy, but so would a 3-level dip into barbarian or ranger or warlock...

Yes. Someone asked and we tried it to see how it would go. As a strange coincidence, it was almost Clint's example of a Battlemaster/Rune Knight (in this case Edritch Knight). They went EK 1-5, then BM 1-3, then EK 6-... I think 9 or 10 before the campaign petered out. As you can imagine, the...

That is why I split my discussion into shows with great endings, and shows which greatly reinforced their initial premise. Admittedly, I think all of mine* were good endings, but there are others (like Seinfeld) that are really really appropriate, but still maybe not great overall. *except maybe...

I'm know the reasons, and you are right. Still, that doesn't change that they were there. And my point was that all editions of the game had art which evoked epic or horrific adventure, but also bucolic nature scenes and pedestrian non-events. If one were to selectively pick through any...

When Chainmail was being developed and introduced, (certain members within) the old guard of wargaming decried this fantasy wargame as twee, melodramatic, pretentious, affected, and maybe something someone's small children or Lit majors might be interested in; but not something the real manly*...

Side-topic: Shows that ended really re-enforcing their original theme: If we can nominate the different endings for Futurama, I'll do the same for Scrubs -- the original season 8 finale was incredibly right for the series as a whole ("And who's to say this isn't what happens? Who can tell me...

That would have robbed you of the pleasure of rolling up more elves. :p