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That covers what I would call 'common sense'.

But a lot of us just like talking it out. Like I said, I don't enforce it. If a player doesn't want to act things out I will accept a description, but that's partly because I can't be bothered to be consistent. Sometimes, I'm not feeling it, or having trouble getting into an NPC, so I'll stop...

So I was a bit confused by your first post; since it just seemed a slight reshuffling of ability scores. To clarify my understanding; you don't want to change the mechanic of using a short list of scores as modifiers for a universal resolution system; you just want to change the names so people...

Yes! Slings all the way. 22 gold coins for a verminkin with a sling! Who cares how crap the ballistic skill is? Just send them out in force, you can always hire more! Wait, sorry, wrong game. I'll let myself out.

Hey, Gravity Dice currently have their set on sale for the low, low price of $95, including the case! Every pip mathematically calculated and precision drilled!

I'm sure most dice are slightly biased. The weight won't be perfectly distributed, and there will be minor imperfections in the surface that affect how they roll. But you're right that the biases people actually notice are more likely to be imaginary

I am often amused by dice superstitions. I have noticed in my online group that, after a string of bad rolls, my players will just ask the dice roller to roll 100 d20s. They call this 'clearing the dice', and is supposed to trick the software into skipping past the unlucky patch or somesuch...

Probably better off talking to your GM about this than to us. I also require my players to roleplay social interactions. That doesn't mean I insist on good acting, and if you're uncomfortable speaking in character then it's okay just to describe and summarise what your character is doing...

The best way of testing would just be to roll them a whole bunch of times and then do a statistical test on the plausibility of your results. Might take a while if you have a lot of dice. What I would do (and might do this weekend now I'm thinking about it - that's how you kill time in...

This is the stupidest thread I've ever seen The Shire Moot Glenvale is a peaceful place because there are aren't any monsters nearby. I don't know what sort of mental breakdowns some of you go through when whipping up a setting that such things become problematic.

That seems to me entirely backwards. Ability are not at all specific, they're extremely vague, and don't really make sense for that reason. They don't apply to a short list of specific things; those six scores cover literally every action the character takes where there is a meaningful risk of...

You don't have to write anything in Roll20. If you're used to already working from stat blocks in your book, or from index cards, or whatever, you don't need anything in the system. Is glancing at a stat block and typing /r d20+3 really much more difficult that navigating to the correct...

There is absolutely no need to pay for content in Roll20. There is nothing you get by buying the rules that you can't do without. All it means is that you have the rules built in to the software, so it can do things like fill in your character sheet for you, and have macros ready to do all the...

Not 'suddenly'. Those are always valid defences. I expect different things from a game than a book, or a film. Lazy, derivative worldbuilding would bother me in a work of fiction, but I'm all for it at the gaming table. Good thing we all have different tables.

No, I don't think that would make sense. There's no reason for a party to match the demographic distribution of society; if anything it makes more sense not to. People of my national background make up less than one percent of the city in which I live; but you'll often find us together with...

It is common knowledge that halflings speak with a West Country burr.

I see it more as an absolutist tyranny, but one in which the tyrant has no actual way of enforcing his will of he cannot manufacture consent, not any way of stopping his tax base from relocating to Wear Berlin if they dislike how he runs things.

I can see the appeal of this, but it's not going to fly at my table. I like rolling dice. Maybe you're right about it being faster, though the specific example of speeding things up that you provide only seems relevant because of the opportunity attack rules that you're using, so it wouldn't...