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"And in a corresponding move..the Los Angeles Dodgers have used every available draft pick on backup catchers.. When asked about the moves, GM Andrew Friedman replied 'Well we expect some amount of attrition this year and wanted to make sure we were prepared for it.' One scout, speaking on...

The greatest Mario Brothers movie ever made? I'm in. ok..I liked the new one a lot, and kid me would have preferred it, but adult me values how truly impressively weird the original was.

The smoothness and seamlessness with which it handles all the mechanical bits and bobs of PF2e is something to behold. Stuff like when someone casts an Enlarge spell, a player can drag the spell effect onto your token, and Foundry makes the token the right size, adds the damage buff to your...

That's awesome news. Foundry's kit has always been impressive and only gotten better over time. Love the mainstream recognition and legitimacy.. Now if only they had an effective matchmaking platform.

Fair enough. I was interpreting a starting distance of 30 ft as something that would only happen if the PCs are surprised or both map and option constrained. Because, before that point, I'd expect that at least one of the PCs would have detected the presence of a threat based on having some...

I wouldn't say that the troll has zero chance of starting an encounter within 30 feet of the party. As you say, dungeon design can sometimes make that call for the party. Sometimes a room you have to go through is small and has a troll in it. And sometimes the troll gets a lucky stealth roll...

For me, I'm inclined to discount a lot of personal wilderness experience..since I am not a professional fantasy adventurer and I'm not typically in the fantasy wilderness with a group of professional fantasy adventurers..fantasy adventuring. As such, I tend to at least try and consider what...

I should note, I don't mind the thematics of apex predator, sneaky, devious trolls.i kinda like it even. It just isn't how 5e describes them. And it's difficult to talk about encounter expectations and creature behavior when we aren't using the common baseline expressed in the game. And it's...

Where do you get camouflaged from? Hell..where do you get predator from? Their characterization in the 5e MM is hungry uncooperative savages who take on violent work to get paid in food and treasure. They have no skill in stealth, and have lower wisdom (the stat that typically governs survival...

And I'm saying nothing about the troll's 5e description..literally nothing.. supports the behavior you are describing. You know..in the way that wolves' tactics are reflected in the MM by the "pack tactics" ability. (Edit: also..wolves are wiser than trolls..by kind of a lot) I'm not sure real...

I'm on team 'canonically stupid (and unwise!!) monsters are canonically stupid (and unwise!!)" And on team "passive perception is likely high enough to detect literal giants who have no canonical inclination to attempt stealth, and no skill to help them do so" And on team "if they want to run...

They are 9ft tall stubborn bipeds, prone to rage..with no skills or behaviors that suggest they should be able to easily approach the party unawares. Meanwhile D&D party members will frequently have skills and abilities which are designed to help them detect and avoid danger. It's fine if you...

It is also pretty amusing, this depiction of trolls as these cunning, capable, stealthy hunters.. When (in 5e at least) they are literal giants..with negative mental attribute modifiers..across the board..and no stealth proficiency (their only stealth benefit is a +1 dex)..and no mention of...

Hmm.. DDB makes poor quality graphs People disagree on what conclusions to draw from DDB data, if any. People disagree on whether and how severely problematic spellcasting is in 5E. I miss anything?

I don't believe, in this case, that anyone was talking to you. It was a conversation between Neonchameleon and TheSword about the approaches to troublesome rules-legal interactions between players and the game. Neon's point was that, game rules should be changed to avoid incentivizing these...

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I looked up coffin prices as a joke one time. Took awhile for that to flush it's way out of the system. Online ads are usually pretty good at that kind of thing. Makes it weird when you get some of these left field video ads. You start doubting yourself. Was getting ads for NARCAN earlier in...

Same. Chrome and and Android.

If I've internetted correctly, I'm at 1008 x 2244 pixels.

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