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In the end, just the term 'false dichotomy.' I was going to say more about combat vs. RP, but ran out of time.

I mean, the alternative to bastard sword for situational one-handedness is just the backup one-handed weapon, so I don't know that it's really that munchkiny. Especially if the bastard sword isn't also an optimal choice*. *it wasn't in 3e or 4e, in 2e it depends on whether the DM used the...

Splitting it between D&D and RPGs is rather prescient. I have different goals with D&D vs. other RPGs. D&D is my 'beer and pretzel' game, and I will have a game where the goal is just to play the adventure... or just fart around as a dwarven skald... or just find out how the DM populated their...

And then the zombie virus breaks out... in the werewolf ninja training camp

Note: All of this is D&D specific. In other games I've gone so far as to have characters take up the knapping skill along with wilderness woodcraft, such that in a pinch they can craft stone-headed arrows during long wilderness deployments. As a player, I tend to do so automatically. As a GM...

It will differ for each person. To me personally, perhaps The same basic cleanup of AD&D 2e: everyone uses same xp table, all races can be all classes (no level limits), shift disparate subsystems to more unified mechanics (usually d20), etc. Still retains the basic D&D structure of levels...

PF1 is taking the D&D 3e that we got, and continuing on in that direction (stopping to make a few course-corrections along the way). If you enjoyed the basic premise/design ethos of 3e, but thought it had done one or more things specifically wrong, some other attempt at the same basic conceit...

Here, elsewhere online, or IRL?

That the same basic point could have been made without sounding undeservedly condescending and pointlessly antagonistic. Everyone gets the obvious. Everyone knows the basic facts. If someone is asking why water is wet, it is likely that they are really asking a more nuanced question than the...

So the conversation has moved past this in many ways, but I wanted to come back to it. Regardless of discussions of how things should be, or whether survival play is conducive towards heroic gameplay, I've come to a conclusion on a separate point. And that's that TSR-era A/D&D did a poor job of...

I thought that too, but no conversation with a Hulk comics fan gets past 'his rage-induced strength has no upward boundary!' Lawrence's Mystique 'outfit' certainly looked like it would peel, Romijn's seemed more like it would split like a cut latex glove. Not sure which would be more...

There's a subset of fiction where someone can be 'just that good' that things seem like magic. Anime can have it, but you also see it in stuff like the smoke knights in Girl Genius where they are effectively invisible and can steal/replace-with-something-else your hostage or the weapon you are...

Don't forget the 1966 shoestring-budget DC/Marvel crossover movie Mano and the Hand vs. Dr. Fate.

Look, I know we're not the greatest set of folks the world has ever dragged together in one place, but I'd hesitate to call us villains.

I very much prefer dyed or otherwise unpainted stucco houses. Then they are indeed low maintenance -- unless something happens to them, you don't need to replace, paint, tuck point, re-grout, or really do anything to them. Plus, when you do get the outermost layer of your stucco re-done, you...

Okay, first point -- does everyone on this board living in the US also somehow live here in greyduck/hotdish-land? Anyways, the sewer inspection is definitely a big deal. FWIW, I bought a house in 2019 in the Twin Cities, and the home inspector ran a scope and discovered a cracked clay...

D&D has certainly paid a price for magic being reliable modular rule-changes that rarely risk anything other than opportunity cost, rarely take more than one game-time-unit, come in large option arsenals, and are all recoverable overnight (+ maybe 10 minutes/spell level reading time). There's...

Definitely. When you do something like this, guidelines and well-defined premise are essential. Otherwise you have some people voting for villain who does the most evil thing and others voting for truest depiction, etc. (or, as you point out, different definitions of what qualifies as villain)...

Given that they can swap it out at level 2, it's worthwhile to analyze what it could do for a durability build at level 1. Also, FWIW, second wind is (1d10+1) x (2+ # of short rests taken per day). It doesn't scale great, but at level 1 it is pretty significant.

TWF will always be good for rogues trying to make sure at least one attack hits (so they get to inflict SA damage). Nick means they still can Cunning Action. TWF with nick is good for a Ranger using Hunter's Mark. TWF with nick would be good for Bladelocks using Hex if the specifics of being a...