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Don't forget the 1966 shoestring-budget DC/Marvel crossover movie Mano and the Hand vs. Dr. Fate.

Look, I know we're not the greatest set of folks the world has ever dragged together in one place, but I'd hesitate to call us villains.

I very much prefer dyed or otherwise unpainted stucco houses. Then they are indeed low maintenance -- unless something happens to them, you don't need to replace, paint, tuck point, re-grout, or really do anything to them. Plus, when you do get the outermost layer of your stucco re-done, you...

Okay, first point -- does everyone on this board living in the US also somehow live here in greyduck/hotdish-land? Anyways, the sewer inspection is definitely a big deal. FWIW, I bought a house in 2019 in the Twin Cities, and the home inspector ran a scope and discovered a cracked clay...

D&D has certainly paid a price for magic being reliable modular rule-changes that rarely risk anything other than opportunity cost, rarely take more than one game-time-unit, come in large option arsenals, and are all recoverable overnight (+ maybe 10 minutes/spell level reading time). There's...

Definitely. When you do something like this, guidelines and well-defined premise are essential. Otherwise you have some people voting for villain who does the most evil thing and others voting for truest depiction, etc. (or, as you point out, different definitions of what qualifies as villain)...

Given that they can swap it out at level 2, it's worthwhile to analyze what it could do for a durability build at level 1. Also, FWIW, second wind is (1d10+1) x (2+ # of short rests taken per day). It doesn't scale great, but at level 1 it is pretty significant.

TWF will always be good for rogues trying to make sure at least one attack hits (so they get to inflict SA damage). Nick means they still can Cunning Action. TWF with nick is good for a Ranger using Hunter's Mark. TWF with nick would be good for Bladelocks using Hex if the specifics of being a...

Unfortunate. I thought he had been getting better. RIP.

This might be your feed. Even general purpose new sites like yahoo.com or <yourlocalnewpaper>.com now tend to curate your articles based on previous browsing habits or articles read (or simply demographic qualities they've determined about you). I'm seeing a lot more about Hackman. More...

I'm tending to agree with Jefe. I guess it's stated in the OP that the purpose is to find a use for attribute proper (as opposed to attribute mod), so it isn't just how it feels, it's a stated goal. I think you are right, we can make simple changes and put them on a sheet. However, at the end...

There is no answer that doesn't have a legitimate push-back, and no response that makes even a substantive plurality of people happy. It is a game of considerable likeness to the previous one that has many overlapping features and many components of which line up seamlessly but others do not and...

I want to reiterate that we don't know if her liver issues were substance abuse related, or honestly whether her death was even related to the liver transplant. However, as a member of the SA recovery community, I want to give a warning. Liver disease is incredibly fickle. Some people can...

We did similar things with BX/BECMI/AD&D (after we ditched training) -- instead of gp=xp, it was xp for every gp that was 'wasted.' That could be carousing, donating to your religion's temple, spent on a bling-wagon, put into a dedicated 'castle fund' that likely would never happen, anything...

Between the Family Guy take on it and Star Wars Detours (not that we ever got to see that), I think that's already been covered.

To add to this, where WotC-era games can use a single rating, classic D&D games had a level of reward only roughly tied to that threat-level assessment. Most of the xp you would get would come from the treasure distribution, and that came from a treasure table list that looked like "C, 3xL, & Q...

Yes, but that shifts the requirement from 13 Str (remember OP premise is 1st level, so we're looking at chain mail, not plate) to 14 Dex, making the challenge even harder.

1XP=1GP was a an incredibly elegant solution Gary stumbled upon for the fun little treasure-hunting game he and Dave cobbled together. In hindsight a simple lesson -- use your incentivization structure to reinforce the central gameplay loop that you expect people to enjoy about playing the game...

IMO, there is validity to both basic positions. It would be good if known issues were addressed in the next ruleset, and it sometimes seems puzzling when they aren't ('do they not see what we've been complaining about on D&D forums for years?'). At the same time, the reason things like...

Oh, to be sure, this is all back-of-napkin-ing it. We can throw in massive amounts of other situational changes (say, anything that does fire or poison). Perhaps better not to have done everything down to the .5 point, presenting a false sense of accuracy.