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I don’t think I know anybody who seriously used this method. But ultimately, any method of rolling stats (we used 4d6keep3, arrange to suit) beyond 3d6 in order was all about optimization/deliberate character build. Lots of swords but even with the PH, you could see which ones nobody would take...

Back in the days of records, tapes, and CD - most artists got more of a royalty than they get off of streaming these days - particularly if they had the song-writing credits on a track that plays often and gets covered by other artists on their own albums. What kept a lot of artists screwed for...

Domination's effect is based on the charmed condition. Can domination still work without it? I don't think so since the ability to have the telepathic link and issue commands requires the target to be charmed. But that doesn't mean that breaking domination effects with a 5th level spell isn't a...

Possession is much stronger form of control than the dominate spells. While a dominated creature may be given orders, they have their own faculties, can do what they want when not carrying out an order, and have potential for repeated saves. None of that applies to possession. A possessed...

I would consider a charmed or frightened condition sufficiently different from possession to require separate analysis.

Of course it will be. It may not be exactly the same but it'll still be some iteration of Critical Role. Things may change a little more than between one campaign and another, but there have been significant changes every time they shift campaigns anyway and it still remained Critical Role.

Hey, now, full revocations no longer happen. Gatekeeping and all that. It will, however, mean some point deductions in the Evening Gown segment of the Alpha-Nerd Pageant.

Well, no you wouldn't. The exorcise 4th level cleric spell back in AD&D largely fit that role. And it's really just specialized ritual spell in general.

Unfortunately, by simply auto-ending possession, it side-steps completely the iconic battle of wills between the exorcist and the possessing entity. While forcing a save or requiring a touch attack doesn't do very much for that idea, it at least conveys the idea that the exorcising effort is...

Well that was some serious whiplash.

Given how both Bilbo and Frodo were corrupted much more subtlely and slowly, it's hard to square Sméagol's corruption into committing murder with such immediacy. That is, unless it turns out that Sméagol was a pretty sick personality even before Déagol found the ring - which I think we might be...

And it's not like people hadn't seen things like this before, literally. When the Nazis asserted control in 1933, they had a very effective German bureaucracy to work with (that they then politicized). But they also relied on the party imposed Gauleiters to maintain control - and those...

There may be imperial supporters on a rebellious planet, but it's not like the Empire needs them like a democratic form of government would. Their obliteration will terrify the other systems just as effectively as wiping out rebels. And, aside from organic resources, plenty of the planet's...

I can't remember what game convention we were at - maybe Winter Fantasy one year(?), but a friend of mine got to sit in on a play test with a version of European Axis and Allies that Tom Wham was noodling around with. It was just the European powers with the US eventually having some presence...

That's the challenge of writing a bunch of lore - it can be polarizing. I found 4e's treatment of tieflings limiting, not least because they had all become infernal rather than descendent of any lower planes inhabitant as they had been before, and are again much to my preference.

We have: Netflix Disney+ Apple TV Hulu+Starz We sponge off our elder daughter's Amazon Prime + Max account. She started getting it as a student and has kept going with it. But then, she sponges off our other accounts, so we feel vindicated. We dropped Paramount+ despite being big fans of Star...

It's sad that Mad Monkey would be relatively niche because, having run it, it's a lot of fun. I'd have voted for it over WG7. That said, WG7 still beat out the rest of the options, none of which are what I would describe as any more niche than a Greyhawk campaign product. It clearly had its fans.

Just because you're not seeing a lot of action against Lego, doesn't mean that things aren't happening in the Lego-fan community. For example, Tips & Bricks, a prominent web-resource and reviewer of (nearly) all things Lego, pointedly refuses to review the Potterverse sets. And I'm sure that...

I just try to remind myself that not everyone lives in the same media bubble I do. I certainly couldn't explain anything going on in the Czechia these days, literarily or in the media. So I try to extend grace, particularly when they're in countries outside of the US/UK media world.

I discovered recently that Czech Games Edition (CGE) ignited a firestorm when they announced a new edition of their Harry Potter-licenced game as Codenames: Back to Hogwarts. The disapproval was fierce and furious given JK Rowling's persistent persecution of trans women (the latest being an...