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Just yesterday, I was running Tales of the Valiant (so pretty close to 5e). Unlike 2024e, they didn't improve healing. They gave the classes more bennies and things to do, but there wasn't a significant boost to sustainability, while the monsters, if anything, got fiercer. They were fighting...

I had that problem today. They were fighting a noble who they had learned was a blue dragon sorcerer (intended to warn them about his damage type of choice). He had the ability to use all his spells with lightning, and the sorcerer in my group, who has to use a sorcery point to do the same (I...

(Warning, details require knowledge of VtM): I think it had more to do with the fact that I personally resolved several storylines far quicker than desired. I was playing a Tremere for about a year, slowly amassing a library of rituals. It got to the point that no one really knew what I could...

In a long-running campaign, I retired a character who had become a demigod, simply because I thought adventuring as a god was a bit silly. I had another character become an immortal (basically the same thing with different rules) who I did retire, but later went back to only because they had a...

Something a lot of people seem to forget when discussing when a character dies is that D&D was designed without a critical hit system. Damage variance was generally small, usually a roll of a die without bonuses. If a monster did 1-6 damage, you knew, from your own hit point totals, what risks...

Yeah, I mean, in the first film, Tron is kind of a big deal- a powerful security program that functions independently without oversight from the main CPU, monitoring all access points to and from the system with authority to shut down any unsanctioned activity. He's certainly able to overpower...

Until the day comes when all actors are replaced with programs.

There's something about the way Ted Cassidy (as Ruk) says "the old ones" in that TOS episode that is the most memorable part of his performance.

I keep asking myself why the series is still called Tron. Tron's role in Legacy was a terrible way to treat the character, and I don't even see how he could return if the studio wanted him back (I mean, there's probably copies like the Kingdom Hearts Tron, maybe Alan has a Tron 12.0 he's been...

I love this show so much. Anson Mount is quickly becoming one of my favorite actors. There's a lot of fanservice for fanservice's sake, but it's less jarring than the Kelvin timeline films for me. The timeline is screwy as heck, but at least they've set up reasons why. Encountering Trelane...

I was referring to whoever Jeff Bridges is playing in this movie. Obviously a program, and Flynn died in the last movie, so... EDIT: of course, who knows if this movie will even pretend Tron: Legacy exists, lol.

Wait, so Flynn made another CLU? Let's hope this one isn't crazy.

It's a difference in philosophy. You've espoused a philosophy that you want the game to map to the setting. Nothing wrong with that. But the flip side of that philosophy is the idea that the setting should map to the game- that the setting reflects what the game rules model. And so, if one...

Ideally, if there's something special about character classes as opposed to NPC "classes", I'd think that the PC version of something a random NPC has (that isn't granted by something a player wouldn't have access to, like species) would be superior anyways. Of course, that's assuming you think...

Guilty about the checks. I'm still occasionally reminded by my players that there is no Engineering skill, and they tease me when I ask them to make a Reflex or Will save. : (

Thinking about it more, it's because they're player-facing. If a DM doesn't want to use vampiric roses from Castle Amber in his game, he doesn't have to- even if he's running Castle Amber, he could substitute them for something else. The players don't have any say in this process, and I don't...

Did someone say dragon cannon?

I guess you could argue 2-4 based on stuff like this: