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Hey now, the rat-bastard keeper in me is saying that should be a GROUP Luck check - and that means you use the lowest Luck score in the group.

I have The Man From U.N.C.L.E on DVD as well as Star Trek: The Animated Series, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Muppet Show, and Jonny Quest.

The wording here was particular interesting because referring to the food as a "trick" evokes references to 1e DMG Appendix H where a number of tricks were described. Basically, a trick is akin to a trap in that it's a hidden property of something, just not necessarily something set up as a...

That wouldn't preclude him from being in Ireland during years of plantations, dispossessions, and uprisings before traveling to America. Remmick's statements may erroneously conflate religious conversion with dispossessions a bit since Ireland generally wasn't converted to Christianity by...

Wow. You even see things like that come up in party games like Codenames. You'll give a clue that, you think, links pretty much exclusively to a couple of cards on display and someone will have some weird association and screw it up. It's almost enough to think some people just don't speak the...

Good luck to Green Ronin. I tossed in a few bucks to help them out even if I'm not really buying much from them these days.

It has been my experience that potions tend to be forgotten, same with inspiration. When a DM friend of mine gave out inspiration as poker chips, we used it fairly regularly. Without the physical token reminder, it is often forgotten. I think I’ll start using chips for inspiration in my game...

I think it also gives us closure that

I've lost a few friends that I gamed with, none were active at any table I played in at the time they died, but I had played games with them for years before. The first was Dave, a friend I met in college. He was an occasional RPGer but mostly played board games and war games. He was a wiz at...

You may not really see much of the shark other than shadows and fins, but he is demonstrably present right from the first scene.

Whether or not Sanity matters only if you lose a large amount in a short time depends on whether or not you are playing a one-shot or a campaign. In a one-shot scenario, yeah, small Sanity losses aren't a very big deal. But if you plan on playing more than one or two scenarios with that...

The idea of just saying "Yes, you succeed" without a roll is to save the rolls for when you really want it - such as when there's an actual consequence of failing other than having to try again to get it right or when the pressure is really on (like in a crisis such as combat). This is part of...

If it's within their ability (DC isn't too high to achieve) and there's no cost of failure (plenty of time, no wandering monsters, etc), then yeah, they should succeed without rolling. It's not and shouldn't be a challenge.

I don't really get the idea that trying again removes any real challenge. It just changes the terms a bit. Using your example above, if you can't pick the lock you have to try something else - like breaking down the door. Is that really a different challenge in any significant way? In both...

If I had a dog that looked like that, I’d have to name it Blueberry Muffin. I mean, you can see it, right?

I think maybe you'd be best off with a one on one chat and say that you have some questions that you'd like clarified without trying to call any of them "rookie mistakes". Rookies are expected to make mistakes - it's one way they learn. You can even talk about how these house rules should be...

Yes. And if you remember the line in Casino Royale where he specifies Gordon's as a brand, you see that in a number of the books as well. Fleming name drops specific brands to set exactly what kind of consumer Bond is.

I think not. Much of which Bond is anyone's favorite is going to associate with the movie(s) the actor is in. Moore suffers for me because the movies got far too cheesy, even compared to Lazenby's OHMSS. Brosnan's movies are, to me, utterly forgettable - they're, in fact, the only Bond movies I...

For me, it's a toss up between Connery and Craig, Dalton third, then maybe Lazenby fourth.

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