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Nice choice to include moving around out of turn when the software won't prevent it. I was in an online game during the pandemic (PaizoCon, I think) and the GM was using Roll20 with dynamic lighting. One one hand, it was cool to experience it. But MAN did the other players move around scoping...

I think it's a little weird to require the cameras be on, however, I can see how it helps foster a human connection when you can't play in the same location. We turned those cameras ON during the pandemic, for example. It was helpful to have a fellow gamer's face. Now, when we play online, it's...

Even with low spending on self-defense forces, Japan's economy has been big enough for so long that they field one of the top navies in the world right now. And they aren't trying to project American power globally - so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for the Japanese navy to achieve local...

Foment a feeling of opposition to Cardassian colonization, true. But considering the power differential and ability to surveil, fomenting actual ACTION from recruiting to carrying out operations would have been pretty tough. Powerful states with sophisticated surveillance capabilities are...

Oh, sure she does. Freedom fighters often do engage in extreme forms of violence that inevitably destroy some of the lives of the people they are trying to free from the colonial yoke. Some people feel that successfully doing so is what redeems them and is possibly the only thing that can...

Vedek Bareil also represents the forward-thinking, patriotic statesman to the narrow, parochial interests of leaders like Vedek Winn. While she comes up on top, Winn finds she actually needs Bareil’s sensibility and rationality to gain lasting results. One could draw contemporary parallels...

MAN, some of those posts didn't age well.

We're just going to have to agree to disagree about that.

And that's different how? Do you just "Like" the script or do you live it and its context?

Some tattoos have meaning, including expectations that they have to be earned, not just taken on because someone "appreciated" them. That's why it can be seen as appropriation. You're clicking the "Like" button - you're not living the culture.

How to organize best depends on how most people are looking through the Monster Manual. An alphabetic arrangement that includes the monster's stats is best for quick reference at the table while running the game and/or when you know the name of the creature you're looking for. For those...

Me and my monkey

Kinda harkens back to AD&D days, actually. Save or die/suck spells were encounter enders then too, but higher level enemies had better saves and magic resistance. So while the spells were pretty effective at low levels, as the casters got to higher and higher levels, these spells got harder to...

Kind of a bit of everything, really, and a lot depends on the game. Superhero games - yeah, clearly exceptional from day 1. Call of Cthulhu - generally not exceptional but doing exceptional things. D&D - a bit of a mix of starting a little exceptional and becoming more exceptional. Overall...

Nothing wrong with a Con of 14. That's a +2 hp/die and a +2 to Con saves. Pretty robust in any scale that isn't skewed by the stats of player characters.

Sly Stone has passed away. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/09/sly-stone-pioneering-funk-and-soul-musician-dies-aged-82 Now, go Dance to the Music!

I hear people make comments about agency too, but I have a hard time characterizing these effects as loss of agency. I certainly don't think being subject to a suggestion, charm, dominate, or fear effect would cause a character to lose any more agency than lying on the ground a 0 hit points...

Well, I guess I was thinking a little more along the lines of the mass suggestion with that one since I was prepped to do it for a campaign I was running (and never was in a situation where I could deploy it successfully). But I'm not certain "Run and get help. Your friends need it." would be...