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One thing I had discovered, decades before I ever was introduced to Traveller and its character creation was a great product by the dear, missed Jennell Jacquays, Central Casting: Heroes of Legend (1988 - https://www.amazon.com/Central-Casting-Heroes-Paul-Jaquays/dp/0922335001) This had so many...

Don't forget Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. I'd absolutely play him in a campaign

Here comes my semi-atomic take: Have more subclasses that are wildly different from each other - the entire point being to absolutely minimize the people only taking a class for 'dip' levels. I feel, from my decades of experiences, that if you do that, you're killing something that has always...

I wonder if any of that is related to the way I remember Skills and Powers being percieved back in the day. The way I remember it, generally people might have found it novel, but, anecdotally, people were like 'If you want to do that, go play GURPS'.

Agreed. During my Gencon years, and from years of listening to Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, it's generally been my experience that a lot of game designers generally like each other and find enjoyment out of mechanics, settings and ideas that their peers come up with.

Exactly this. You can't say Paizo or someone wouldn't ABSOLUTELY love to have a Pathfinder movie, or tv show. I am absolutely sure Evil Genius was absolutely drooling to get a financial jump with Rebel Moon. They won't reach Hasbro/Wizards levels, but it would definitely get those numbers up...

Well, a quick google of actions between attacks brings up Tavern Brawler, it SPECIFICALLY says you insert the bonus Grapple because it's triggered on the hit. Shield Master doesn't have the clause of causing the shove during the attack action. Movement is SPECIFICALLY and literally spelled out...

But Attack is an action. Extra Attack isn't just two attacks, it's two attacks as one Action. It's the same reason it matters what order you cast bonus spells in. If you cast a Bonus Action spell, the ONLY spell you can cast after than is a cantrip with a 1 Action cast time.

Makes more sense. I see both sides of the argument. I'm not sure what level you are, but you're apparently at least level 6. So, you're taking one attack, and he Shields. Dispel Magic is an Action to cast, so you're NOT taking the Extra Attack and instead using Action Surge to drop the...

After a little googling, I guess it would work. My question would be - you really want to burn a 3rd level spell to take a +5AC off for one round instead of getting in a total of four attacks? For an eldritch knight to have a 3rd level slot, they'll be a minimum of level 13. That reeeeally...

I haven't read Titus Crowe in a long time - I need to revisit it - but the concept I loved, which really fit with Delta Green I thought was that whatever foundation had found a way to create artificial Elder Signs and were 'excavating' places to disguise them planting/burying the Elder Signs.

Discovered AT-AT walkers on Arrakis.

Okay. Arguably not the greatest, but I'd definitely take him over some others. Random side note: General Kael is specifically named after Pauline Kael, the movie critic. Kael's review of the Sound of Music? " [A] sugarcoated lie that people seem to want to eat." Nasty stuff.

Can't believe I had to go this far down before Madmartigan.

I try to boost from Gumshoe for my D&D games. First, the party will always find a clue that moves the story forward. Example: they find a matchbook for a club in the city left at the crime scene Second, generally I'm open to whoever using a skill to try to get more information, but also...

I agree with this. I feel, from my experience, AI's effect on white collar jobs and the arts has caused more of an uproar than automation shifts because it affects people who feel they've 'moved up'. Look at Reservoir Dogs when Mister Pink doesn't tip, on a breakfast he wasn't even paying for...

I apologize. Maybe we've been saying the same thing. Someone had originally posted that the AI will free workers. That was what I was responding to. I'm not against AI, I'm not against automation - but I recognize that both will have a serious impact on workers. The person I had been...

People had to have jobs to work to eat. Generally speaking, I believe a lot of people essentially were sharecroppers for their lords what have you before heavy industrialization. People were building cars before Ford. Ford's assembly line meant four people could make a Model T instead of ten...

I was introduced to her work a LONG time ago when I was 13 or so, joining my first D&D campaign outside of my house with people I met on a BBS. Every Saturday, we'd play and have the best times. Part of what made that campaign so amazing was the use of her Central Casting: Heroes of Legend...

Personally, I feel the line is drawn when one option is 'I use an AI to make a filter on my artwork' and the other is 'I set-it-and-forget-it to have the AI draft my legal documents'. Not sure if anyone has seen this but it's comical. A lawyer submitted claims citing imaginary court cases in...