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Yeah, we never did this. We just leveled when the XP was reached, but only when the current adventure was concluded, and the party had reached a place of safety. Why? Because nothing in the PHB seemed to indicate that wasn't what you were supposed to do, and so much of 1e D&D was attempting to...

Yeah, I like that he doesn't try to "dunk" on the game by showing off his knowledge of history. He's more trying to reconcile the two while acknowledging that sometimes the coolness factor matters.

Yeah, I found as the game went on, we were either steamrolling encounters pretty easily or we were in for the fight of our lives. Getting something that was in-between tended to be the harder trick.

This, to me, is the reason to go back to 1e and 2e. The magic items are the key to customizing your character, they are the way you improve them, and the only way you’re going to find magic items is by adventuring deeper into that dungeon. What will you get? Who knows? You arguably could have to...

I’m about 20 minutes in and basically he’s breaking down each weapon and its damage, weapon properties, and whether it’s simple or martial, etc and saying what was that rationale for those stats whether its somewhat based on reality, whether it’s simply fantasy vibes, or whether it really...

If she’s making a comeback, she’s going to have do better than a channel with 2000 subs. That last video from the other channel got a whopping 39 views.

You do you.

Within the context of 5e, the PCs are the PCs - the rules for players are generally for the players, not for NPCs. NPCs are typically built under a different framework from the PCs. So a PC adventurer and an NPC adventurer could look completely different based from the standpoint of how they...

Adventurers doesn't mean PCs.

It's certainly a more niche game in a niche area of the hobby - the OSR space. But once I heard over and over about how good it was, and finally got to play it, I was hooked.

It is very dramatic.

This tracks - I tend not to play or even consider games about a particular IP, especially one that seems as narrow as Alien.

Conclusion: All of Snarf’s 1e Fighters just happened to have 18 Str and 18 Con. I’m sure he totally rolled it. 😁

Dang, I just realized I've never watched Eyes Wide Shut.

More of the same theme but different in that you’re seeing the violence of the war and futility versus the violence of the military system to prepare them for that war. And yeah, after Ermey and D’Onofrio check out, that’s a really tough act to follow, kind of like having to follow up Robert...

Oh the only other thing I’ll say is that Full Metal Jacket’s chaotic two halves make sense in the context of the Vietnam War. The conflict itself seemed nonsensical to many guys on the ground, and I think the movie reflected that chaos, especially when you compare it to a movie like Saving...

I could quibble on the ordering of the list but really, at the end of the day… I’d move Full Metal Jacket up into the top five, personally, and probably move Lyndon down just because of personal preference and my struggle to get into Barry Lyndon despite the camera work. But can’t argue the...

I don’t have the new version of the DMG (or PHB), but I would be shocked if there wasn’t a section, likely right towards the beginning, that says the DM creates the world and the monsters, and interprets the rules, changing them when need be to suit the individual table. The 5e edition certainly...

Some threads, man…

Creating a 6th level wizard is mostly just giving that wizard spells based on that level and adjusting HP. And that’s it unless you want to throw in Arcane Blast too. Done.