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I would say that difference only is worth to do, when there is actually a difference in gameplay effects. If in the end mathematically both end up with a similaramount of damage and everything else stays the same, why even add complexity here if there is no meaningful decision between building a...

Its a tale as old as time to put queer content in the pornographic, pervert category to have a "moral reason" besides hating non-conforming livestyles to remove them from society, to "protect the children". Just because lobbyism happens, doesn't mean its good and its sad to see how relativists...

how is could that be the failure of player skill - a 0HP death mechanic is nothing that happens in the narrative, its a pure mechanical effect. If you try to telegraph it in the narrative "this monster seems really deadly to you" or something like that, most players will think "oh they probably...

Yes, thank you for explaining the specific over general rule. However, it all needs to be measured. The bigger the exception is, the more unpredictable the game becomes for the players and thus they make less informed choices, which is IMO the death of good roleplaying. Extreme example: If my...

I think you nailed it with your analysis - I don't mind 0HP or at least much smaller death buffer systems in OSR games - because they are often much less swingy, making it easier for the player (and DM) to assess potential deadlyness in a fight. Death at 0 HP in 5e would only work for me if...

Which is the reason why it is stupid to just look at review scores. If you want to rely on reviews by critics its so important to actually read those reviews to know the reasons, WHY they think something was good or bad, what their definition of good is and if its different of what you like...

I don't like them in 5e because yes its shocking, as it always will if common rules suddenly don't apply anymore. And I think that is the part that icks me a bit. I have no problems with more deadlier games, but if players don't know that such abilities exist, they are making uninformed choices...

I like your point of micro-decisions, but I am not sure it applies here. You don't decide for your mastery on every attack, only once when choosing your weapon. In general I also prefer more OSR approaches like Shadowdark, but I don't think weapon masteries made 5e combat weaknesses worse. At...

I think its human nature to seek conscious decisions behind random occurence and its probably linked to the human brains strong ability of pattern recognition. I admire your ability to play with such players who behave like childs and accuse you of lying. This would be for me the last time I...

Yes, I hope he finds love in his new passion! But Dimension 20 is in good hands, if D20: On a Bus is an indicator about what is going to happen.

holy moly, they have a show in Berlin... I think I have to go! I traveled to Glasgow last year to see Dimension20 live (and I even talked with Brennan Lee Mulligan afterwards in a Fish&Chips store!). It was totally worth it, but Critical Role coming to my hometown feels like a fever dream.

This reminds me of the discussion of the new cast for the Harry Potter HBO series. They get so much hate online (how sad your life is when you attack child actors online) because they look so different from the OG crew - but honestly they look much more like I imagined them in the books...

Ok the greek gods are one thing, if some people still believe in them, but I never saw anyone refer to Homers Odyseey as a Holy Scripture. He was not a prophet, but a poet and just wrote down an epic about famous oral tradition story. But even if, I never saw someone refer to any other Holy...

I am very curious to read THAT definition of non-fiction, because I never heard of the Odyssey being refered as non-fiction and I am curious how such definition would describe interactions with gods, witches and mythical beasts not as fictional. Will someone call LOTR in 2000 years non-fiction?

My mother was pretty strict with buying me new toys and stuff, I could beg as I wanted in a store, she never just spontaneously bought me something I wanted - with one exception: books. That was her one rule, if I wanted a book, she bought it. Or got it from the library. I had my first own...

Nothing beats the joy out of reading than being forced to do it in school/college. I cannot speak for James Joyce -have him on my reading list for a long time, but didn't dare to read it for the reasons you stated. Although I can enjoy art that confuses me. But Dostoyevsky is definitely not...

Or just sit in the same room and be amazed by what the other part of the party does. Enjoy the story. I just switch back and forth between them. I absolutely do not care about metagaming in this instance (and most others). Only exception could be when e.g. there is some pvp element to it...

Which Dostoyevsky has too? He is definitely not just flourishy sentences - you don't get to so much fame and influence when you are just writing flourishy sentences without any meaning. Anyway Lin Carter is on my catch up list and I am looking forward to it. I need this switch, i need...

I would say if something has the horror genre as a meta component like horror comedies often do without scaring the audience, its still under the main bucket of horror. Because if the horror genre would not exist, these movies would also not exist. Scare and fear is the core emotion of horror...

I am sorry but this has big Rick-and-Morty-Fan-Meme energy.