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Canus barks out a sarcastic laugh. "Sorry, Thurven, but I've seen your creations. I do a killing to keep myself looking this good, and I'd rather not toss it away on the designs I've seen here. Besides, cold iron doesn't sit well with me, these days."

With a yell, Noriaki strikes down his first foe, turning then to face the next as he comes charging up. The swordsman deflects the worst of the cannibal's blow, frenzy making the man careless, though he still catches Noriaki along the jaw with the handle of his axe. Hearing Takahaan's cry...

Ah, I like it!

You should start a counter movement by banning essentials-hate in your games. Maybe even take it a step further and just ban haters.

Given that in the post you quoted, I don't try to compare anything to reality, but instead pointed out multiple times that the only narratives that matter are ones your group will accept, and you still are on the reality issue, I'm bowing out. I'm done banging my head against this brick wall.

I'm confused. He specifically mentioned that he mashed up different rules in the examples, because which edition did what or used what rules is less important to what he's trying to convey than how detailed they are, and he's only discussing 3e and 4e? You said yourself the level of complexity...

Someone, invariably. It might be an interesting model, but for every dreg, there will be at least one person who loved it, and they will show up online to tell us.

Up in the trees, Noriaki perches, his hand on his sword hilt. On his knee, the Pict perches, grasping a wicked looking spear that seems to be made from a sharp tooth tied to a stick. As the cannibals come into view, perfectly in sync with Castile, The Captain stands and shouts, "Now!" The...

All you need to know is that WoW runs off of different character advancement numbers?

Yes, the Call of Cthulhu posting policy requires that should any thread pass ten pages, reading and/or posting in it will begin to cause SAN loss.

I think you're reading too much into it. Monte isn't on a stump here trying to tell DMs to stop making judgement calls, he's just recognizing that if you write a rule, people will use it. When most people look at a rule and think "No. Not in my game. In my game, we will do this differently."...

My group fought a big ol' slime boss last week, and I used the "Boss Battle 2" theme from the Chrono Trigger OST. Seemed to work pretty well.

"Right, then, dove, let's pull in the anchor." Howler starts toward the passageway.

I think it bears saying that I thought a good chunk of the reason behind this thread, and the search for the WHAT, was that when it started, there was already a popular thread(with spinoffs, even) discussing the WHY. The WHY has been far more thoroughly discussed lately than the WHAT.

I've yet to be in or run a campaign where the essentials stuff was banned, and it's been fine. Sometimes someone finds a specific thing they can get really good mileage out of, but that mileage doesn't seem to be much more than that of combos that already existed pre-essentials.

I'd put the earliest sign of trading back and forth between video games and D&D to Final Fantasy 1, myself(or at least, that's the earliest one I can think of. I remember starting it up and thinking I was pretty much playing a computerized version of a 1e campaign. Ah, I love that game.

The gash was just an example. Your broken ribs example works fine for me, too. I'm gonna take a shot at explaining why, and I'll use the ribs for the whole thing. Things in this section are edition neutral unless otherwise specified. By the rules, If your Fighter takes 70% of his HP damage...

I can accept that you see the game differently, and that your differing perception leads us to disagree on things. I don't entirely understand your view in the sense that I can't sit down and envision myself playing that way and having it work for me. But I can accept that it does work for...

I imagine it has something to do with me being bullheaded, though I'll point out I was trying to discuss a somewhat different issue with BRG before you brought it up again. Alright, sorry. I misunderstood your position. You like a mix of wounds and abstraction. I can actually work with that...

Okay, let's put the Irregulars in H18. I swear I'm only going to forget I volunteered to control them a few dozen more times.