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    D&D 5E (2014) How game-breaking is it if GW Fighting Style applies to smites?

    This doesn't change the my position on your analysis at all (IMO, you are right). However, the damage average for a d8 goes from (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8)/8=4.5 to (4.5+4.5+3+4+5+6+7+8)/8 = 5.25.
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    D&D General Explain Bounded Accuracy to Me (As if I Was Five)

    I found (BX and BECMI) fighters to be interesting enough to play. Mostly in that, in the absence of any skill system or grand world-interfacing rules, playgroups and playstyles tended to let you do many things ad hoc, and a lot more of the challenges were anyone-can-try ). I know the old 'makes...
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    D&D General Explain Bounded Accuracy to Me (As if I Was Five)

    You are definitely not wrong. There are people like this, and at some point they become a burden too much. However, in my own personal experience, these people whose lack of investment in the game rises to the point of being detrimental to others are right up there with these examples you are...
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    Regarding the Life of Threads

    Thanks for that clarification.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    It is, at the very least, on-brand for the hobby. Who here hasn't run into someone clearly trying to establish their manliness by advocating for a specific TTRPG/edition/playstyle/dedication to some goal like ('realism' or 'rules as written')/etc. over the other options? Isn't the later...
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    Sing to me, O Muse, of BECMI!

    Can you give some examples? I'm trying to think of some, but I keep running into things BECMI has such as wilderness generation, domain management, mass combat, followers, mercenaries and hirelings, spell research, strongholds, taxation, high level quests, and planar travel.
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    James Introcaso talks about the Power Roll, a change to the MCDM resolution system.

    Yes, continuing with a failed mechanic when it is clear it has failed would be an immediate red flag. Yet things-not-working-out at the basic resolution mechanic level would still be a concern, and worthy of discussion. Regardless, my statement was made under the notion that a solid primary...
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    AD&D 1E AD&D (yes, 2e too) players and referees, what do you think of rolling under for ability and NWP checks?

    To start with, you are absolutely correct. There were small niche abilities* that could come into play. First and foremost, I was referring to/thinking of the skills where you specifically, well, skilled (were giving a nwp score, likely a modification of an attribute, and rolled that to effect...
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    James Introcaso talks about the Power Roll, a change to the MCDM resolution system.

    Let's be clear, exactly one individual suggested that there was a grift going on, and the person you are responding to was not that person. It is not helpful to include that statement in your response to their post. Beyond that, everyone* is aware that the game was unfinished and subject to...
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    James Introcaso talks about the Power Roll, a change to the MCDM resolution system.

    An issue is a broad topic. To be clear, it absolutely, flatly, unflinchingly is not an issue on a legal, moral, uh... 'doing something wrong' level. The grifting claim suggestion made above seems likely to be either 1) casual overreaction, or 2) becoming used to a specific way something is done...
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    Launch of gaming news site, Rascal

    Everything you say is true. However, the alternate methodology that seems to have popped up for nerdosphere news is page ads, which drastically incentivize low-effort clickbait articles. And that I am super tired of dealing with. It will be interesting to see if new models rise to the fore.
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    AD&D 1E AD&D (yes, 2e too) players and referees, what do you think of rolling under for ability and NWP checks?

    Interesting. Do you have any examples? Slow descent into spot checks notwithstanding*, did you really see it take over the game? *I'm concerned with what was there in 1e and 2e, not what it might have become in 3e My impression was that the non-weapon proficiency/skill system was a bunch of...
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    James Introcaso talks about the Power Roll, a change to the MCDM resolution system.

    Agreed. This is not a grift. Colville and MCDM are long termers who make their living on having a continuing reputation of delivering consistent content*. They are in it for the long term, not a flash-in-the-pan or fly-by-night grifting operation. *that you may or may not like or think valuable...
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    D&D General please tell me about the old psionic classes?

    I see. In that case, I generally agree. We're playing games about people who live in a world where magic is real. That's anathema to what a lot of us would like people to believe in our day-to-day life, but that's true of both eras of magic-believing. One is just insulated by time. That said...
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    AD&D 1E AD&D players and referees, what do you think of ascending AC?

    Importing armor "class" made sense when it was more of a nominal variable with a numeric representation and less of a real ordinal variable. Honestly (and I guess I already said roughly this), the closer things got to a static X-vs-Y chart, the more sense it made and there's no real reason to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What new content do you like most?

    I voted Monsters/NPCs, Rules variants/additions, and Locations (not full settings). I'm done needing more character-build options. There are a grip of 3PP books filled to the brim with new races, classes, subclasses, and feats. I don't have enough playtime and characters to explore all the...
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    D&D General please tell me about the old psionic classes?

    I'm not exactly sure what you are asking, suggesting, or trying to say. I was positing a reason Clint_L might dislike New Age-era magic but be fine with faux-medieval magic.
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    D&D General please tell me about the old psionic classes?

    Is it because relatively recent instances of IRL people believing in the supernatural feels more problematic than potentially people way back yonder* in the past believing in magic? *if one feels that the quasi-medieval setting of the fantasy genre even is a parallel to the real farther-back past.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Or they know that most people buying their material are doing it as a middle finger to the rest of the world, not because they actually want a usable game product (in which case wasting resources editing provides neither them nor their customers any benefit).
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    Would a Submarine Work as a Spaceship?

    And the sonar will be terribly inefficient.
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