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As you note that yes. EVERY hit leaves a small cut or bruise. A hit means actual physical contact, but that doesn't mean I narrate all the hits as serious wounds, which is where pemerton's disconnect with my style of play is. In the poll, I voted that early hits are scratches and bruises and...

Drow are even darker than the darkest skinned Africans, who are still lighter in shade than the pure black that Drow are supposed to be. Drow are purple in the art because they're described as being black as obsidian. It's tough to show defining features when looking at something that is...

Yes, exactly. And I think 5E is moving in that direction with the idea that stats are key. 2E did this for sure. There were a lot more "roll a Str check" and "roll a Wis check" back then. Also, don't conflate Monte Cook's work on 3E with 3.5. The beasts have some differences, and 3E, despite...

I think a dial is the saving grace we all need here.

Mine too. And although I appear to be outside the plurality opinion, there is still a sizeable portion of gamers who game the way I do, which in itself is fairly reassuring.

Yeah, the take away appears to be 49% have some hits as hits and some as misses, and 32% have hits that always hit, with 19% special snowflakes.

Here's the answer for why, whether I agree with it or not: The default assumption is what most players and DMs assume. It's why the variant rules in the DMG, although they are there and available, see far less use than the ones presented in the PHB. Having it as an option makes it seem less...

And for almost 30 years and the four editions I've played (Mentzer Basic, 1E, 2E, 3E) the way I narrated and played worked perfectly well. It was only in 4E that I was presented with this problem, and the options presented left me in the position of playing something other than the current...

If we're going to do iconics, I'd like to see some shifts. Make the human fighter a female. Make the dwarven cleric a female. Make the elven wizard a male. Make the halfing rogue a male.

I want 3 books. I know I'm completely in the minority, but I liked 2E's Monstrous Manual three-ring binder (for several different reasons). I'd also like a separate Beginner/Basic Box. The last thing I'd like is PDF support of the books (and I'd really like to see verified purchasers getting...

Yep, those were all the reasons I chose Aundair to start with. The campaign eventually moved into Karrnath (via lightning rail to Thaliost and airship across to Rekkenmark - the plot had to do with the Order of the Emerald Claw and the Blood of Vol) and was headed for Thrane proper (where the...

I wish I could XP you because that's exactly how I look at it. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

It wouldn't kill me, or be a gamebreaker on its own. It does bother me a little, but again, it's something that modularity could fix. A lot seems to be hanging on that word. I hope it delivers.

I'd do that if mapping on the small scale like that made sense to me. Large-scale/overland? Sure. I just have a hard time mapping buildings and the like in hex.

Really? I mean, I can understand wanting it to be simpler, but when moving on a diagonal means my character can move faster than yours moving left to right, that doesn't bother you? A character that moves 5 spaces on a diagonal NE actually covers ~10 ft more than the character that moves 5...

I'll just make use of this double post-- When it's magical, it doesn't bother me. It's magic. It requires someone to cast a spell. And none of this circular argument to wands of CLW (which was never really an issue in my experience). That's a separate issue that could be solved in a different...

The first would be okay, but I don't think that slowing spell replenishment also is the answer. I did mention the second one as being completely unacceptable. If I wanted to play a cartoon world, there are systems that do just that (Cartoon Action Hour for one). Furthermore, in a world where all...

I would definitely like to go back to diagonals as 1.5 units, though.

Neither Phantom of the Opera (the one with Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler) nor RENT had overdubs by other singers, at least not for the lead actors. I think the idea is to do Les Mis in that same style, and since the 25th Anniversary Concert was a success (although not nearly as good as the...

It started with the objection to mundane healing. People objected to the idea of sleeping healing wounds. People who don't like hits as wounds said "I don't narrate hits as wounds and I never have a problem. Only people who narrate hits as wounds have a problem with mundane healing." That is...