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If the twist was that after playing for eleventy-one days, you take over as a new character who's thirty-three who has to leave your shire - and suddenly it's a full quest, all while you pine to return home - that would probably be a terrible business decision, but still really neat. Or just...

I think that's all, yeah.

I just got out of seeing it. My take is that clearly the 'villain' is a government that treats journalists as the enemy and that values holding onto power over the truth. That said, there's a vein of criticism in the film aimed against those types of journalists who are motivated by getting...

I wrote or edited the adventures, what, 17 years ago, and yeah, I feel a bit embarrassed by a lot of parts where I think now I could do better. But I think as long as you involve the players in the setting so they care about the people imperiled by Ragesia, the adventures have plenty of fun...

I appreciated the aesthetic and mood of the first movie, but my takeaway from it was that - intentionally or not - it was a film that had nothing to say, but with a main character who thought he was doing something meaningful. It was tragic in that way, and tragic that for a while a number of...

I mean, if any character would be permissible for a GM to say, "He faked his death," it'd be one named Deception, right? In the campaign, Deception shows up in adventure 6, then . . . man, it's been so long, I don't remember. Maybe not at all, or maybe just wherever you want. A recurring...

Ah, well, I was just thinking of the whole 'only one concentration spell active at a time' thing 5e had. Quite different from the 3e era of invisible stoneskinned flying summoners or whatever.

At least in the 3.5 edition, It was possible to have one spellcaster Grant flight to multiple characters. You can't do that in 5th edition.

Str - Titan. Built on throwing and smashing, using heavy weapons and armor. Dex - Poise. Cool combat maneuvers with mobility and finesse. Con - Corpus. Drugs, food, alchemy, yoga, etc let you expand your body's abilities. Int - Savant. Little schemes or nifty gadgets to take advantage of the...

I just figure if people were drinking something as amazing as coffee, it would be attested to in a lot of documents. The absence of that documentation suggests it had not been discovered yet. Like, we have clay tablets from 1750 BC complaining about a business transaction - Complaint tablet to...

I just found this link - The History of Coffee: The Story Of Civilization In A Cup - which mentions 7000 BC (citation needed). That definitely does not match what Wikipedia says about the history of coffee, which says the earliest records are about 1000 AD. History of coffee - Wikipedia

Halewei is a Middle English word for 'healing water'. Not sure what that is, though. MiddleEnglishDictionary Kashdug is the Sumerian term for 'sweet drink.' I skimmed a Sumerian lexicon and didn't find anything better for a beverage like this. Tisane could work too. Well, I'll figure it out...

I'm writing a bronze age fantasy novel, and in a bid to stay with the aesthetic of the era, I keep running into fun challenges of world-building. My latest: tea. Tea is a beverage made from steeping leaves of the tea plant in hot water. There are numerous other types of plant you can steep in...

Rock is the character equivalent of 'a great place to visit, but you wouldn't like to live there.'

The way I usually run it in my games is that clerics have to be formally invested in a priesthood in order to be able to use power greater than a certain minor threshold. If you have faith, you might be able to come become a first level cleric. To become anything third level or higher, the...

Oh man, the vehicle rules are silly, because they max out at the same 100 tons as mechs. Even in the 1960s our small gunboats were running about 250 tons.

It apparently cost 100 million to make BG3. So if I win the lotto, I will bribe their hiring manager to let me write for whatever their next game is.

There's also, perhaps, a philosophical element, where we expect 'warfare' to have high stakes, when really it might just be super petty. It's a lot easier for villainous a-holes to justify sending in the military to kill a bunch of civilians if it takes a minimum of 2 weeks for news to reach...