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It seems that presents a larger cognitive gap for some people than for others. For me, trying to interpret hit points strictly as either damage or as staying power is more mentally taxing than treating them as an abstraction of both — whatever I need them to be at any given time. I get that...

I must be watching different movies.

Characterizing players pursuing PCs goals not directly related to the DM's intended plot as "randomly deciding to do random things on random whims" is IMO contrary to what makes D&D an enduring, rewarding pasttime.

1. Wrath of Khan. 2. through 5. in no particular order: A. The Motion Picture. I was a sorely disappointed 12 year old when this was released in '79. In '89 I watched it on VHS at x2 speed and enjoyed it quite a bit. Drugs might have been involved. B. The Search for Spock. Uh, no. This movie...

I didn't have much opportunity to play 4E, probably fewer than 30 hours of game time at the table. Most of us, including the DM, were new to the system and we didn't quite hit our stride. None of us had a grasp on how skill challenges were supposed to work, and I wasn't sold on the stregnths of...

I have never said BECMI, and I’ve never heard anyone else say it. 🤷‍♂️

Creatures with resistance to non-magic weapons CAN be hurt by them.

The parts that weren’t about Godzilla were pretty good.

Speaking as the parent of an adolescent (and as someone who experienced adolescence myself), I have to say that a 90-year period of adolescence sounds like a living hell. Elves should have a long, carefree childhood (not toddlerhood) and a short adolescence. Dwarves should have a short...

We tried to introduce this to our (as the time) 12 year old. It didn't appeal to him at all. We would have had more success with the radio show, I think.

The benefit to me is to get out of the basement once in a while. The local theater within walking distance has some pretty good beers on tap.

Writing is deciding what to write and what to leave out.

That’s a common made-up misrepresentation of the argument. There are plenty of threads of this forum that would clear that up for you, if you care to learn about the actual concerns of actual people. [Edit: I posted this not because I want to engage in this discussion again and again, but...

Sometimes — maybe even oftentimes — writers and publishers fall back on tropes and “evocative” language common to the genre without much if any reflection. Making some effort to dig into those choices and to hear other perspectives about them and to be a little self-critical can show that what...

There are motives for editorial changes that have nothing to do with mass upheaval and public shaming.

Yes, it shouldn’t be. Also, it hasn’t been. Also, it won’t be. Mass upheaval? Public shaming? Yeah, that’s not a thing.

One of my favorite characters in 1e was the result of rolled ability score rolls (4d6-L, arrange to taste, if I recall properly). I wanted to play a druid, but I couldn't meet the Wisdom and Charisma requirements. I played a fighter who had been abducted as a child to be initiated into a druid...

My late stage spellcasters have very different spell selections than they did years ago. Sometimes that means suboptimal PCs, but I want to play casters differently than I've done and that I've seen played by others. I'm pretty well sick and tired of the go-to "best" spells.

I'll generally be happy to go along with whatever method the group decides without complaint. For 5e and 3e, I prefer predetermined arrays or point buy. For 1e or 2e, I prefer rolling -- either in order, if everyone is doing it that way, to see what falls into my lap or placed, if the players...

We're getting pretty far from the topic of super-hero movies, but I'll just say that the message that women are people is not a message that only women should hear.