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Wow Marvel still makes use of Conan, eh? 2024, 2025. Nice covers!

I agree, but "fun" isn't the end-all be-all for everyone. Some people find it more fulfilling to have to ration resources; that can be an important part of the game, depending on the edition/system. I guess that's more of a survival-horror aspect, though; the ranged attacks can be very...

Ha yeah, cantrips really screw the curve. That's a good point. However, I am also of the mind that utility cantrips should be limited to a certain number per rest. Antitoxin, acid, alch fire etc. are standard equipment, not magic items, but yeah no worries.

OK so of note, and I thought I'd bring it up here cuz it's sort of on-topic... Rakshasa in 5e24 just automatically pass spell saves, and all spell attack rolls miss them :'D

This is where I've largely fallen as well- but I do wonder about the implications, lines, slippery slopes and such. Adventuring gear like rope. "Your character would've thought to have brought it, so don't worry about it." What about antitoxin? "You knew you were going into a spider den, so...

Magic/limited ammo, yes. But not mundane ammo that could be easily acquired/crafted, which is most cases. I did track ammo in 2e and 3e as a player... not sure what changed. Must be shifting priorities.

One thing that's been considered for a long time has been upping damage and lowering HP on monsters. I never had the drive to try it til I saw that mike mearls said he did it in his home games. I think it's a worthwhile change; about 30% more damage, and 30% less health. The higher damage ups...

Yeah, you're either designing for a game that people are playing at a table, with their heads and paper sheets, or you're designing for a game where most of the hard work is being handled by computers over a server etc. I guess that's more heavily looking at it like a video game-lite?

I'm on-board with @mearls saying Bonus Actions were a mistake/bad patch, and result in slowdown. But does slower = tedious? Well if you're not enjoying the actual mechanics and thematics of the combat, then it's probably something else.

Just FYI, this is the feature: I definitely understand where you're coming from though, but 5e sits in an awkward middleground (in my mind) with crunch: the characters get a lot of features, so players are more likely to rely on what's on their sheet (I guess that might apply to all modern...

My players usually don't try to be overly social unless they're playing a character with decent charisma and/or the skills for it, because they'll inevitably push for something that'll require persuasion and It would've been more "mechanically advantageous" if they had just had the face...

At a table, the player can't click "fireball fireball fireball fireball" over and over again. I agree though, that I don't have that problem with my tables in other VTTs... so it's either a group etiquette problem, or maybe it's because the VTT is shiny and new that people want to make things...

I feel like you're having a conversation with someone else. I don't think it's quite right to say "strawman" but I think you might be injecting your own issues into what I've written.

I think our miscommunication might be on the "maximize profit" term. I notice that you added "ethically" to your use of term; note that I didn't include "ethically" when referring to "maximize profit" like you did. That's probably the miscommunication. I also didn't say that someone couldn't...

Yeah, there's the in-between of Running a Successful Business. I guess it's easy to forget that that's an option in today's world? The vast majority of small businesses do it. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your reply; I didn't say they didn't want to get paid.. my sentence was literally: Making a...

Yup. You can have a business without making "Maximizing Profit" the highest priority; it depends on what the end goal is- sustainable business, making a quick buck, getting rich quick, etc. All different. When you open your company to public trading, that's when you're trading away (some)...

I'm trying to understand my bias against multiclasses like this... because man, I would not enjoy seeing this at one of my tables. It's bad enough when I get one or two PCs that want to level-dip for extra stuff. I'm not saying it's wrong to do, just that I don't like it, and I feel like a...

That's the one (and only) thing that I like about Google search's AI summary, is it gives you sources for what it's talking about ... so when you wonder why it's saying something very wrong, you can go to the source that it scraped it from and see that it was because it was sourced from someone...