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I always wonder if I have one more Gencon left in me. I used to go when it was in Milwaukee, but I had a group to go with. Now, I'm an older single dad with only one kid who's borderline interested in gaming. Feels like too much of an investment in time and resources for too little reward for...

Really want to up the ante? Use Dread.

In a 3e game, I played a cleric that was centered around arming and armoring the astral deva. That was when I learned that while the to-hit/damage bonuses could only go up to +5, you could put a total of +10 worth of features on a weapon. Same with rings.

Well, they DID attempt a VtM series on Fox, when Fox was still a young channel. However, they also managed to mangled the vampire clans. For a long while, that was as attempted-mainstream as you could get - Vampire 90210

I always love the story about how, due to the mass trauma inflicted on children at Optimus Prime's death, it made them rewrite GI Joe so that Duke survives thanks to a throwaway ADR line.

I think it all depends. Normal humans moved to a fantasy world would have adaption issues any way, but I feel the 'adventures' a person with disabilities would undertake, like anyone else, would be those that play to their strengths. Kind of like Tyrion Lannister - partly he was relegated to...

Apparently, no one has been paying Redbox prices. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/redbox-set-close-dvd-market-withers-streamings-shadow-rcna161407

It's been my experience there's a difference in the two examples just in play, but it may be hard to quite articulate it. Skill challenges, I believe, are more narrative in the lines of '8 successes before 4 failures.' So, I don't see a disconnect of a player who's TRYING to find a way to...

I snipped the part because I wasn't addressing that and wanted to avoid a wall of text, I still haven't seen your point of them not supporting DMs, if 2014 books are still on the table. And certainly, they are not coming into your home to audit your gameplay. I don't know you or how you...

I don't know that that's throwing the GM under the bus to say 'ask your GM if you can'. There are absolutely setting or scenarios where a certain PC type is not baseline appropriate for. It's no different than coming to a table where the pre-established worldbuilding is 'Elves all left for...

Agreed. I'm blanking on the name of the guy who makes the minis on Dimension 20, but Brennan Lee Mulligan busted out a bear corpse as a battle map one time and that was fire. -- Note: I was wrong; they made it for the game Aabria ran https://youtube.com/shorts/-i3aO2Y2K0c?si=UFaJzHUTyDj81Li2

I think having actors play makes the 'staying in character' much easier. I do wonder how much production team help he gets for the battlefields. They've released shorts that are sped up versions of Matt working on the terrain for the next encounter, but the room and tools he has available to...

The basement room with rats comment made me think of a streamer I watch playing Oblivion. He assumed it would be the same quest - woman wants the rats killed. No. The woman wants to keep the rats, but a mountain lion was sneaking in and killing the rats. Come to find out, the lady's neighbor...

I'll agree to bloated. I feel like part of the problem is they seem to be designing to everyone: on one hand, it's generally way easier than when I started in Basic and AD&D 1e, but... they also bake-in so many things to try to give guidelines for things veterans will want to do.

So we have to spend 80Mcr.

100%. I believe it's also good to look at the table dynamic and why everyone's getting together. Some tables are there strictly for the game, and only this One System. Some don't care what, if anything, is being run as long as they are hanging out - they'd hang out even if it was board game...

If you haven't seen it, I'd HIGHLY recommend GI Resolute. The full movie is on Youtube. It's more of an anime look, but Good Lord is it gritty and ruthless. It starts off with the body of Major Blood being found, Bazooka's corpse being found on the Flagg right before it explodes, and Cobra...

Another option? Flat out stand your ground and tell them you don't want to run 5e. You're a member of the table also - you can absolutely veto being forced to run a game. Or compromise and say you want to show them 4e - it sounds like it will be as new and shiny to them, because honestly, I'm...

It's been my experience you'd be better to offer to run a short campaign of what YOU want to run than to do all this work on things. If the table doesn't respond well after those sessions, you've tried, they've tried. They may just be resistant because of all the 4e jokes out there...

And, to quote Judge John Hodgman: "Nostalgia is our most toxic impulse."