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It's an RPG supplement - it provides no nutritional content, is largely indigestible so no caloric content either, will not be a uniquely make or break moment in anybody's finances personal or corporate, isn't going to spell the difference between war and peace anywhere on earth, and isn't...

I dunno, entirely luxury product seems pretty objective/easily calculated to me. Goodman made his choice and he's going to be held accountable to it by people similarly skeptical. And that's appropriate.

When you literally have to because there's no alternative AND the goods/services/situations involved are necessities or, as Dannyalcatraz points out, there's an important social value or philosophy involved like everyone deserving appropriate legal representation. But for an entirely luxury...

I think there's a difference between a successful game and a successful game product. A successful game has engaged players willing to come back to the table for more - regardless of its financial success. A successful game product is one that's sustaining enough for the owning company's needs...

I definitely agree that the thief had numerous problems beyond the thief skill values. I used to swap the thief and cleric attack\THAC0 tables - giving the thief the nod on offense while the cleric had defense - but I ended up preferring 3e's solution which was to just put them on the same...

I think that depended a bit on what you considered all of a thief's appropriate skills to be. This was in the heyday of character customization, soon to be followed with kits to customize them even more. If my thief is mainly a fence in a city campaign, I might not worry so much about climbing...

As you pointed out, backgrounds take care of the stat adjustments so those go away. Speed: nobody small is penalized 5' in movement to these should go to 30, having a climb (or swim) speed isn't a big deal Age: eh, don't sweat it, not a factor Keep Amphibious, Aboreal Alertnetss, and Standing...

I don't think that's the actual goal...

Hey, at least that's a positive! Definitely observe how your players interact/deal with Player D's game for the rest of the summer. Will they be more cooperative or will they give her the same problems they give you? I'd like to hear about it.

"But my clone is different."

Doesn't count as a deductible.

It really doesn't. The vast majority of citations in the ADDICT pdf are for the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Masters Guide. Most of the rest of them point to sources used in the examples of play. While it may be helpful to stress levels to give up on the DMG's elaboration of initiative in...

How did 1e AD&D initiative work? Convolutedly. If you distilled it down to just comparing d6s per side in the fight, you were golden. Otherwise, if you tried to incorporate everything, see this link: https://knights-n-knaves.com/dmprata/ADDICT.pdf

I'm not sure it would have been the easiest target, but I'm pretty certain it's one she didn't really understand or was pretty far outside of her own experience. And nothing attracts enmity like being "different".

I don't know that it would be Gary's edition vs Lorraine's edition, per se, as much as it's just Gary's edition. I'd be surprised if many people thought of 2e as Lorraine's edition - in fact, I'd probably think something was really wrong with them if they did. We always largely played a hybrid...

My sympathy hasn't increased for her, it has decreased. I have two girls - one of whom grappled pretty hard with suicide ideation a few years ago. It's nerve wracking to be in that position as a parent. But there's a gap between grabbing onto something erroneously as a cause of a child's suicide...

Sure, but we've been here before. I certainly remember feeling that we were really watching a full-on Avengers movie instead of a Captain America movie for Captain America: Civil War. From the standpoint of the superhero stories, no, we don't need Captain America to be an inherited title. But...

You should check out B. Dylan Hollis and the things he cooks on social media. He collected a bunch in this cookbook. https://sites.prh.com/baking-yesteryear Seriously, many of them are similarly weird recipes that sound absolutely awful, but many actually turn out pretty good. Edit: The text...

In News of the Weird moments, the last living GRANDchild (not great-grandchild or great-great-grandchild) of America's 10th president, John Tyler, who left office in 1845, has died. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, whose claim to fame is really that one oddball fact, passed away on May 25, 2025 - a little...

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