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I am thoroughly unimpressed with OneD&D, feeling that most of it is a combination of lateral moves and downgrades from 5e designwise, and what actual improvements there are tend to be blindingly obvious hacks. Nevertheless I really don't see how it is incompatible really at all, at least at the...

I'd like to thank everyone for their input, it all certainly helped crystalize my thoughts on the subject. For anyone who's curious, I decided to name my game "Ramble On", evocative of both ongoing, episodic questing, and of a game where people sit around a table and talk for four hours. It...

Given the striking variations in environment of California, where Lucas and most of the screenwriters and production designers have been based, one has to assume that either mono-biome planets were a very conscious choice or that these folks really didn't get away from home very much. Just...

I couldn't follow either link on Firefox. They both worked for me when I copied the addresses to Chrome. I am logged in to my account on Firefox and not on Chrome, which could also be a factor somehow.

The "Forest Moon of Endor" seems a bit more improbable. But whether or not it is realistic, it is definitely a core Star Wars trope for each planet to represent a single biome. You want a change of scenery, change planets. This even includes major urban environments being planet-spanning urban...

Cloud City, however, has sensible guard rails on their windswept bottomless pit catwalk.

I've run D&D at a summer arts camp for the last few summers. There's a substantial chunk of the kids who are more interested in character creation than actually playing the game, and for most of them character creation is at least a substantial selling point of the activity. I think many people...

I mean, you don't actually need to be far. People not recognizing a royal when they take off the royal trappings and walk amongst the common people, even in their own capital, is a common literary trope, from Henry V walking amongst his troops in Shakespeare, to various outtings to Kingsport in...

Same here. I think there's probably a substantial cohort of people whose only Apple II experience was in a school computer lab. So yeah, Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail are both top tier from my perspective. They're what we were allowed to play when we finished the requisite amount of Mavis...

I don't know a lot about this setting, so I might be very off-base, but I think the reason WotC isn't going to revive it has very little to do with the lore content being too whatever or not enough whatever. It could be a setting filled with proficiency bonus worshiping Ardlings (or whatever you...

Or the stun setting on blasters, which, as demonstrated on Leia right at the beginning of the original movie, is big, wide, presumably unblockable rings. I mean there's lots of weapons that could defeat the improbable "Jedi blocks laser blast" trick. But stun is already there in universe and...

In the novels I think part of the problem is that the movies just have such exceptional visual design, that a written description of a new ship or alien can't really contend with being able to just say "Star Destroyer" or "Wookie". In the video games the issue is probably more that people want...

I want you to believe that game design is a messy process, and that many of the variant and optional rules are things they intended as standard rules at some point but that were deemed too complicated (or not up to snuff). In any case if you don't like the abilities 5e skills are softly...

Honestly I think Critical Role characters had already eclipsed the name recognition amongst current D&D players, and D&D engaged people, of any characters whose fame rested on D&D novels even before they launched an animated series on Amazon. I think liveplays may have a bigger audience than D&D...

Because the skills aren't primarily assigned to abilities from a balance perspective, they're assigned based on what ability the designers anticipated them being paired with most often. Free-form matching of skill with the most suitable ability for the occasion is presented as an optional rule...

Agreed. I don't think any individual design team members want "change for the sake of change", but I think they all want somewhat different things, and ultimately corporate is happy with changing just enough to make people buy new books and couldn't care less about what the changes are. The...

While I agree that the spoiler-warned subject was well wrapped, and share your concern that it will be trotted out just to be a minor element, it is nice to have something that important get acknowledged outside of its show of origin. Letting things get too nicely wrapped with a bow and never...

I don't follow how your proposed special source of advantage is less "fiddly" than a special source of opportunity attacks, which it sounds like you were advocating. It actually quickly gets more fiddly, since you have to litigate when the advantage would apply, based on what the bow user did on...

Well, they're now 3 for 3 on great episodes this season, which to my mind already makes it the strongest season of Picard. And it turns out all I needed to really like Raffi's character all this time was for her to get teamed up with Worf.

I mean obviously the guy needs to ditch his small army of bodyguards. That's an absolute no-go for a game oriented towards small skirmish based combat, particularly at lower levels. Royal person wanting to ditch all the well-meaning but intrinsically oppressive minders is a basic fiction trope...