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I respect that. I don't know that I think the spells are what give cleric oomph or interesting play. I know it's not an example everyone will like, but as risk of diverging the comments, I look at Critical Role. 400+ hours of campaign 2, with a cleric from the beginning and later adding a...

Reminds me of Girl Least Likely To: "She lives for the written word/ and people come second, or possibly third..." :)

Given that the last time I ate at the Pondo-pit was late 90s and they did AYCE steak and chicken with the buffet... yes please.

A truer statement of the American doctor office, I've not seen recently.

I get the feeling, or at least hope, that this isn't as much bribe/manipulation in the traditional sense as much as... if these content creators have X million constant followers per stream, that is way more effective than research groups for having a finger on the pulse of what's going on. As...

This is interesting because, to me, it brought up the possibility/probability that there are games out there where your wealth isn't something owned, but something along the lines of political/social clout. Something where your ability to bounce back from defeats is based on you owing/being...

I love this. Scorpions especially in L5R are almost set up to be caught in impossible loyalty situations. A long time ago, I was in a pre-Clan War L5R campaign as a Scorpion. We were on a quest to craft a weapon and one of the steps knocked us into sleep for years. We woke up, post-Coup, and...

First-edition 7th Sea was the same way. As John Wick said, dying isn't the worst that can happen - being utterly and completely caught is with no way to escape. 7th Sea followed the rule that people basically fall down, unless someone takes a specific action to kill someone who is down. Or if...

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, please. Again, with metagaming, there's 'good' and 'bad' in my opinion and this story shows both kinds. 'Good' metagaming: eating the fruit because it's an established trait and because in-world, your character would take the fruit due to the...

We had a situation tonight in our Traveller game that fit this topic. I'm a big fan of something designer John Wick said: players want the Die Hard/John McClain experience. There's a thrill that comes from being absolutely run through the wringer and walking away with minimal health knowing a...

I agree with this. Consider the stereotype of American Thanksgiving - eating enough turkey and assorted goods that you essentially just get food-coma for hours. It's expected. And as you said - drugs and poison are rarely instant in the real world. With the culture having the expectation of...

I find this interesting because it makes me curious about if they have corporeal undead in the setting, and if so if they have exposed bones. I remember how many ever years back World of Warcraft redid the design on skeletal undead and the Forsaken due to Chinese cultural thoughts on physical...

Thank you. People forget that: 1) the First Amendment only applies to government placing restrictions on speech - a publisher can choose what to publish or not; and 2) companies will do whatever they think will maximize the profits for the least amount of 'greasing'

Well, there's also the interesting history of the color orange to consider edit: Not being sarcastic. The history of the word 'orange' involves the fact there was not a word used for orange until oranges were discovered and brought to Europe, I guess?

I don't know about you but major gaming companies do not run my table. I recommend looking at the beginning of gaming - anything was fair game to put into a game and was statted and made by the people at the table. That's why there was an Alice in Wonderland module in the late 70s. That's...

You can't discount a level of what they call Oppositional Defiance Syndrome in some of these discussions. By that, I mean people on both sides reacting to any level of push back on what they feel, and the Internet amplifies that with what Penny Arcade made a strip about of the Jon Gabriel...

I think the 'unrealized potential' part is key here. People talk about GoT and its issues, and like you said - the show, and others like it, are completed. These subjects can be addressed if you let people know - hey, grown up things ahead, and here's a keyword list of the triggers in it...

A good reason that not every societal evil needs to be published in a roleplaying game. Once upon a time, people made campaigns out of whole cloth with just what they wanted to loot from Lankhmar or Conan or Grey Mouser, Vance or Anderson.

This, I think. Why stay beholden to a long ago property with issues they (WotC) and others feel are complicated and without a 'win' option, when they can(should?) just release new settings with new mechanics and new ideas like when they had the original contest to create Eberron? To quote...

On a side tangent - one optional idea I like that I heard the game designer John Wick suggest for failing rolls during combat is (and I don't think this applied to misses on attacks, just failed lockpicking etc, or in this case failed castings), basically you still have the option for another...