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No disrespect but some folks are trying too hard to get just right. (Said while drinking cheap macro brews and making foam terrain for the game)

Are skills explained well in the new phb? That is something I would find value in. I may get dmg for better treasure section. We will see. So far the exclusions and changes don’t sound too enticing but I want to thumb through a book myself before passing judgment.

I make no apologies about wanting to have battles in D&D either. It’s a totally valid part of the game. If not, wow, we are wasting a lot of trees! I would say combat is my favorite part of the game. 🤷‍♂️ I have I think interesting characters and roleplay but love rolling my pink d20 a lot

It took my lifelong best friend in his 40s. Still sucks regularly…still a gap that is always there. Get the test done and breathe easy.

In that case I am tempted…

So I struggle with the really big adventures. This says there are several of them. Does that mean you can just do a portion and have it conclude the 8-16 rodeo?

I would like to know more!

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Well I wish you enjoyable gaming and positive experiences. They are out there…I won’t give unsolicited personal advice beyond saying you should matter to the group as a person. I am not casting stones though…we hassled my lifelong friend a lot when he DM’d for us in high school. We still...

This stuff goes beyond the game… You probably know this deep down, but that is a problematic issue.

Holy Moses man. It’s not you.

That is badass…

I don’t have a particular love of hasbro WOTC as an entity. However, they have provided a lot of value for me from Childhood toys to games in adulthood. There is a difference I think between letting someone go (who can find another job) and say letting people fry to death in pintos cause...

There is a lot at play and misunderstandings are not just uneducated people vs intelligent paragons of virtue and science. It’s a human thing. It is exhausting to analyze and question everything. I know I don’t have the energy. But persuasion and bias and propaganda are huge and in our...

Well, researchers massage and torture the data to make it fit. You have to know how to spot the BS. But pundits and talking heads say wild things that don’t make sense and don’t get called on it. I have ideas about stats in sports too. They can actually factor out the era of the players in...

I think not. I watch the news and analysis from a variety of viewpoints and it is abysmal. Abysmal. And I would add it’s not viewpoints that I just don’t happen to agree with. And it’s not just crackpot fringe sorts but even the presenters.

People, even some smart ones do not always understand statistics.

Driving to work today listening to satellite radio..going between news stations, getting pissed off. Angry texted my small cabal of pals and vented. My pal texted back: “don’t fill yourself up with that. You have no control and it won’t help. Turn it off and take in small doses. He is right.

Acknowledging reality is not synonymous with enjoying it.

D1-2… Just wow. The imagery and the fiction are just wicked cool. I am more impressed with gygax’s game fiction than his game design. Big fan of that… The hindsight bias with game design stuff is a call to arms for armchair quarterbacks everywhere. But the cool worlds…evocative...