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It depends. In one hexcrawl I've designed, it's all virgin territory. (The concept is basically that the PCs are Louis & Clark.) For this hexcrawl, the PCs have basically no map whatsoever and have to start their explorations blind. Over time they may be able to gain lore from local goblin...

Sure. But since that explicitly isn't his goal, it's becoming increasingly clear that you're more interested in trying to gotcha an imaginary plot hole than actually discussing the movie. I actually kept expecting the reveal to be that they'd faked his test results knowing that Silver had...

His agents are always on the boat. She's under constant surveillance. I won't disagree on the monumental stupidity part. But there's also no indication that this is his only backup plan. It's just the one that happens to be triggered onscreen.

It's a common mistake to look at something like this and say, "Things had to happen exactly as they did and it would be impossible or nonsensical for the villain to have a plan like this." Most of the time, though, it makes more sense if you look at the villain as making constant adjustments to...

I'll second this: It's the true birthplace of the game, it's got a large population base, it's got a vibrant gaming community, and it's got a political climate that's conducive to museums. Lake Geneva doesn't make sense to me: No infrastructure, no population, no current presence by the...

I'm waiting for them to release a Surface tablet that actually runs Windows applications. I'll use that experience to judge whether or not I want to upgrade my desktop to it.

I'm a huge fan of Monte Cook's Book of Eldritch Might series, which was collected in the Complete Book of Eldritch Might. I used to hand out the first two as actual books of lore to the PCs: They would find a copy of it in the game world and I would hand over a physical copy. FFG had a series...

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1. Orc 2. Ogre 3. Cloud Giant For this section, I'm lining up my monstrous humanoids: Human-size, large, and huge. 4. Dragon They're iconic. I already default to virtually all of my dragons (regardless of color) being fire-breathers. 5. Skeleton 6. Incorporeal Undead Here we line up the...

Pre-4E there were two ways to explain the hit point mechanics: (1) Getting "hit" didn't mean you'd actually gotten hit or seriously wounded until you reached 0 hit points. (2) All hit point loss represented a physical wound, but the system also modeled luck, skill, etc. because 1 hp didn't...

Sure. But it's not like such adjustments are mutually exclusive with variable hit points. In general, hit points aren't the kind of thing that the character can easily "see" at the beginning of combat. Hit points work by affecting the type of wounds that a creature suffers: A 10 hp wound on an...

Different ways of saying "railroading": 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 21, 23.5 Other Entries: 10/11, 13, 16/19/20, 17, 18, 23, 23.75 (Slashes there indicate other duplicates.) Bizarro World: 7, 22 (GMs are never allowed to play RPGs again? Cursed items are never OK? Say what?)

Monte Cook's Banewarrens mega-adventure also included player handout illustrations.

In fact, what the press release says is that the manuscript still hasn't been completed. It's unclear who's responsible for completing it, but I think skepticism is warranted on a project that failed so spectacularly in the past. (Particularly when you're soliciting money through a website that...

That's not actually a hard rule in 3E. Or a rule at all. I generally vary the hit points of creatures. This is particularly true for encounters involving large numbers of creatures: It provides a better pace, IME, if the creatures have slightly different levels of endurance and presence. If...

You've got three unexamined premises here: (1) PCs = NPCs. (Why?) (2) This NPC should be a PC. (Why?) (3) The chargen method for a Living campaign is the only possible chargen method for PCs. (Why?) I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I think you'd probably benefit from examining...

First, I don't think you discount the "fantasy is popular because D&D is popular" thing. If you eliminate D&D/Pathfinder from the historical bestseller lists, you find that those lists tend to be filled with a constant fluctuation of different genres. This suggests that there is no stronger bias...

The human body has 50 trillion cells. And each of them contains our full DNA sequence. So if you give me 1/9-trillionth of the DNA in my body you would have 5x the material found in a full sequence. That doesn't really mean anything, of course, since the rest of your math was nonsense. But if...

The movie is actually pretty consistent on this point: Causality changes only propagate forward from the point at which they're made. The maiming, memories, and death all follow this rule. More details on that. That wasn't CGI.

That's literally the opposite of railroading: In railroading, you negate the player's choice. Here, the player's choice is empowered. So... interesting anecdote about some kid who doesn't know what he's talking about. But what relevance does it have to fudging?