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Can the stress problem be addressed with one rule: "party stress gain does not require an immediate stress check?" I wouldn't write off a new edition just because I thought one of the weapons should do one or two more points of damage. It would take a bit more, like rewriting all of the...

I'm going to let "cottagecore" bounce around in my head a bit. See if it sticks. This game might end the age-old debate of whether a good social combat system is possible.

React or die is an Alien theme. Bumping up pulse rifle damage seems like an easy GM fix. So, are these really problems?

Truth. I don't know how many times I cried out, while playing A2e, "kite him! My heals are on cooldown. Did anyone aggro the demon? I need to farm his drops for my daily."

Different philosophies at work here: Wild shape, D&D 6e: Level 2: Wild Shape The power of nature allows you to assume the form of an animal. As a Bonus Action, you shape-shift into a Beast form that you have learned for this feature (see “Known Forms” below). You stay in that form for a number...

Jon Bernthal, or as I know him - the Punisher, is coming to a theater near you! He's in the Accountant ^2, and I have internal conflict over that. As a sequel, that means it has Ben Affleck in the starring role. The Punisher can do some amazing support (like Ebon Moss-Bachrach did in the...

Truth. How does this look? I moved Actions above Turns. I was probably thinking that since initiative contests determine turn order, that turns should come next :( After revising Actions, there's more emphasis on what counts as an action. As in, they're attacks, defenses, or posture...

There's no way I'm letting a dragon turn people into dragons. And Rod of Unlimited Polymorph is probably out of the question, too. The Goblin Generator has potential. Although, put someone in a small enough cage for long enough, and it'll do about the same thing. What game to use? Modos 2...

To the extent that I interpreted correctly, trying to use a monster with an inaccurate CR isn't a non-choice. It's just more difficult to apply it correctly, since the average party CR has changed, and apparently some old CRs weren't accurate to begin with. Correct application, in this...

Nothing wrong. It just drives me nuts when players assume that they must make a certain type of character.

Chris Perkins: "fully compatible." I wouldn't say the DM has fewer choices, though. They're just more difficult choices.

This makes Minnesota-nice steam come out of my GM ears. "Oh, you 'need' a healer? And one with darkvision, since no one in the group has darkvision? Yeah, okay. Do whatever you want to do!"

I like to use community tables so my neighbors can see all the fun they're missing.

Hellblade 2 uses waves to wash the PC away, albeit not in combat. More spectacularly, a raging fire giant will burn the PC to a cinder if she's not behind cover when the fire blows in. Skyrim has a more subdued take: in the demiplane of Apocrypha, the darkness causes pain (possibly from the...

I'll probably expand the Non-Combat Conflict section to better answer these questions. But since it's the chassis that combat is built on, I don't want to build the same car twice. Progress is about reframing the scene. The fiction and the extended conflict move in tandem. The Guide asks for...

Well, all of the above. The rules work from a purely logical perspective, so the presentation of how to engage is important. Otherwise, the game's not playable, even if the gears don't grind. Please let me know if these revisions resolve your notes: Possibilities are endless, so...

Thank thee. "You" is already plural. I . . . wouldn't look to the South for grammatical guidance. Ain't that right?

If authentic, this local, Philly specialty explains a lot for me:

At your recommendation, I was able to grab the Paragon SRD off the web. I didn't see a lot of detail to the player narration, though. The GM presents a threat ("Hazard"), everyone rolls, PCs who didn't win describe their "suffering," and the PC who wins (if any) uses cues from Name, Domain...

Thanks for taking a look, pemerton. You've got me questioning my decision to leave "what's a GM" and "how to role-play" out of the module 🤓 But I'll set that aside for now. Here are some attempts at clarification, in case a little clarity inspires you to let me know how I might word things...