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Once, when my players were exploring an ancient temple, they triggered a fiendish blade trap....which immediately collapsed harmlessly into flakes of rust and rotten wood, because nobody had maintained it for centuries. :)

Oh wait, I'm after CleverNickName? Um.....right, how many hobgoblins are there? Do any of them look hurt? Do any of them look like they might be a leader or a wizard? What sort of armour have they got on? Is that a boulder on the map, or a coffee stain? If I put the spell right here, does that...

See, that's kind of what I like about him. In Ragnarok, we see that Loki doesn't really have any idea what to do if he wins, other than lounge about and have people tell him how awesome he is. He's a rebel without a cause, and that gets underlined beautifully later on, when Thor sees through...

Heck, one character I enjoyed playing was an actual orphan, who still had close and friendly relationships with the lay clergy who ran the orphanage and bought her up, and other children who had stayed there with her. Being an orphan doesn't mean you're a loveless loner who never formed any ties...

Robin (after arriving on the scene, and saving Batman from an attack from behind): "You left yourself open." Batman: "No I didn't. You were there." A brag and an understated expression of trust and praise. It's just such an efficient line. "When you peel back all the darkness from Batman...

Indeed. Jaded old bittervets are hard to impress with anything that isn't novel enough to rouse a spark of interest; new players are much more amenable to the old standbys....and generally seem to be having much more fun. Worth noting that the first season of Critical Role had a dumb barbarian...

It depends on how it is relative to the rest of the group. Outside of the forum bubble of ultra-optimisation, things are far more varied in the real world. Sounds like you really hate 5e, and don't find it any fun. You might want to consider leaving a forum mostly dedicated to talking about...

No they don't, since the DM determines if a roll is necessary or possible for a certain creature trying a certain task.

I think the "Gods as abusive parents who use their children as tools to advance their divine grudges." angle that 5e started with is brilliant, but nobody ever seems to acknowledge it exists. OK, so this has been bugging me for a while, so I'm going to ask it here: Why is it ALWAYS orcs and...

A theory I really like is that owlbears are the distant descendants of cerotopsian dinosaurs, who changed to a carnivorous diet and developed feathers in the same way as some theropods.

I really wish we could get some more options for the Chain Familiars. There's a lot of pacts (Fathomless, Genie, Celestial, Undead) that don't really have a good option without reskinning. I really want the Lantern Archon back. :)

This trailer felt a bit generic to me--it's heavily pushing the destined romance, heroic freedom fighters vs evil colonialists and the action over any of the deeper themes. But of course, it kind of needs to be a generic trailer with easily graspable appeal to appeal to the widest possible...

I think it's because it so often gets sold on the hyper-gonzo "you can do ANYTHING" aspect, and the range of PC options are so wide and wacky that you do kinda want to try some of the crazier stuff. It does do a bit of a disservice to the game, since there is a very solid sci-fi /...

After seeing it on here a while ago, this is my favourite alignment system. Good: Righteous Evil: Wicked Lawful: Legit Chaotic: Radical If someone is partially neutral, they are Totally (non-neutral part of their alignment). And someone who is True Neutral is, of course, Chill. :)

Upon reaching level 10, a fighter will acquire a stronghold and followers, even if they have no interest in governing or being a general. The stronghold will appear near wherever the fighter is at the point when they level up, which might be awkward if they are in the middle of a swamp, on a...

Exalted second edition springs to mind as an example of how an optimising mindset can go awfully, hilariously wrong when applied to a social system. The optimised way of talking to someone by RAW was to tie them to a chair so they couldn't run away and pelt them with absurd requests you knew...

Divis Mal and the Teragen are....a really interesting failure of storytelling to me. Mal was a fascinating character* and an interesting antagonist.....who was ruined by the writer falling much too in love with his own creation and declaring him objectively Right even when his philosophy had...

So here's what I did for the start of my Primeval Thule game. The PC's started off chained up in the bowels of a slave ship, when it came under attack from a sea monster. The overseer bursts in, declares that they're all going to be thrown overboard, then a tentacle smashes through the hull and...

If you have a PC fighter who's doing their job just fine, why do you also want to put in a sidekick who does the exact same thing?

For me, this is pretty much the last word on the matter. Other people are enjoying something I like, that's a good thing. Not to mention, that communities populated by younger gamers are so much fun to hang out in. If you get out from under the shadow of the bittervets, it can really be a...