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It has been my experience that potions tend to be forgotten, same with inspiration. When a DM friend of mine gave out inspiration as poker chips, we used it fairly regularly. Without the physical token reminder, it is often forgotten. I think I’ll start using chips for inspiration in my game...

I think it also gives us closure that

I've lost a few friends that I gamed with, none were active at any table I played in at the time they died, but I had played games with them for years before. The first was Dave, a friend I met in college. He was an occasional RPGer but mostly played board games and war games. He was a wiz at...

You may not really see much of the shark other than shadows and fins, but he is demonstrably present right from the first scene.

Whether or not Sanity matters only if you lose a large amount in a short time depends on whether or not you are playing a one-shot or a campaign. In a one-shot scenario, yeah, small Sanity losses aren't a very big deal. But if you plan on playing more than one or two scenarios with that...

The idea of just saying "Yes, you succeed" without a roll is to save the rolls for when you really want it - such as when there's an actual consequence of failing other than having to try again to get it right or when the pressure is really on (like in a crisis such as combat). This is part of...

If it's within their ability (DC isn't too high to achieve) and there's no cost of failure (plenty of time, no wandering monsters, etc), then yeah, they should succeed without rolling. It's not and shouldn't be a challenge.

I don't really get the idea that trying again removes any real challenge. It just changes the terms a bit. Using your example above, if you can't pick the lock you have to try something else - like breaking down the door. Is that really a different challenge in any significant way? In both...

If I had a dog that looked like that, I’d have to name it Blueberry Muffin. I mean, you can see it, right?

I think maybe you'd be best off with a one on one chat and say that you have some questions that you'd like clarified without trying to call any of them "rookie mistakes". Rookies are expected to make mistakes - it's one way they learn. You can even talk about how these house rules should be...

Yes. And if you remember the line in Casino Royale where he specifies Gordon's as a brand, you see that in a number of the books as well. Fleming name drops specific brands to set exactly what kind of consumer Bond is.

I think not. Much of which Bond is anyone's favorite is going to associate with the movie(s) the actor is in. Moore suffers for me because the movies got far too cheesy, even compared to Lazenby's OHMSS. Brosnan's movies are, to me, utterly forgettable - they're, in fact, the only Bond movies I...

For me, it's a toss up between Connery and Craig, Dalton third, then maybe Lazenby fourth.

For being crowd-sourced, Wikipedia is shockingly reliable these days. A number of studies show Wikipedia holds its own compared to a variety of other encyclopedias with its most significant lag being in general readability. While it remains potentially subject to vandalism, it has achieved a...

I guess I had really checked out of that thread for a while but, looking back, it sure did leave a body count. The schadenfreude tickles.

Admiral Piett actor Kenneth Colley has passed away. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xv50jnwngo.amp

Sleazy televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has met his maker. https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-swaggart-dies-obituary-ae4b9f551dc141cc820437ab7c194766 And, honestly, I'm surprised. I figured he was already dead...

Second post and I think the thread already had a pretty good and workable answer. Open-ended, ongoing games have any number of informal wins/losses involved in play. In that sense, it's not that different from bowling leagues - any of which may have a series of wins/losses (though in this case...

Jim Shooter, longtime editor at Marvel, has died of cancer. https://www.cbr.com/jim-shooter-comic-book-icon-dc-marvel-obituary/

Sure but there's also a difference between saying you dislike a play style and using that term like a badwrongfun cudgel... which goes on way too much around here.