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Everything proceeding from the statement seems to indicate that they weren't, up to the point of telling us what Tolkien would have thought of the movies.

I've had chrome hang a couple times in the past week. EnWorld would definitely have been open, but so would other tabs.

Here's my thought: We could do the complex interplay of ranged having first go only if knocked and ready, and then reach weapons, and so on. Barring that -- and assuming the combat is a hesitant skirmish* where everyone is jockeying for position or tentatively feinting and pulling back when the...

Re: flight-- Flight impacts the game in two main ways -- Eliminating challenges that can be solved simply by being avoided (melee only enemies in the way but not guarding something important, a canyon). Eliminating challenges caused by being unable to access a location (the lever to open the...

I did not have the same experience. That might have been because my groups had a lot more BX and BECMI influence to them, though. Particularly Mentzer -- when 3 of the 5 boxed sets don't start until the mid-teen levels, it does subtlety communicate to you that maybe these levels are supposed to...

I suspect what it means is that each type of disease that does exist in the game will spell out how it is removed (varying from trivial- to quest-level). Which, given (as others have pointed out) the number of times cure disease/restoration spells/paladin abilities have been excluded throughout...

Also, OP states we are comparing it to all time. Is 2024 worse than 3E's CoDzilla (or hulking hurlers or initiates of the 7 veils or Pun-Pun or...)? Worse than in 2E's putting a Player Options or Fighters and Priests of the Realms character alongside a base 1989 PHB character? Worse than 1E UA...

Fireball is fine*. Sleep and Hypnotic Pattern and Hold Person are fine. They all have uses. Call Lightning and 2014 Witch Bolt and Chromatic orb and so on -- those, not as much. The actual value of area affect direct damage vs crowd control and shutdown spells varies wildy. The direct damage's...

Yes, but if you let it pick randomly (which I generally like to do), it will only pick one, which is an issue since if they do not have to fight each other, they tend to steamroll whomever is around them. It is a known glitch I didn't know there was a mod to fix. I know. I thought you were...

I didn't say you did anything to arbitrarily screw anything. I said you specifically excluded it. I did not attribute to you any kind of agenda whatsoever. You had reasons you stated clearly*, and which are valid and served a genuine (and explained) purpose. *" It has to be a 'Civilization'...

Interesting. I would still be playing it regularly if there were some quality of life improvements, some bug fixes, and maybe some other tweeks. Where is the modding community on this? I can play Civ 5&6 as Cthulhu or Elric. I can play doom on my coffee maker. There are updated expansions for...

I remember in the first childhood basic D&D game I ran, I made 'Bags' of infinite arrows a mainstay magic item (don't remember if I didn't know what a quiver was/was called, or was going for a reference to bags of holding). There's a reason to want such a thing. It 'solves' the issue of ammo...

Mentioned positively 11 times in less than 60 posts, despite OP specifically crafting the criteria to exclude it. I'd say that's pretty strong evidence that people would place it well on their lists if it had not been called out for exclusion.

I'm not 100% behind it either, but for different reasons. I think like it looks like a lot of complexity just to make sure that all armor types are represented, and even then I don't know that it will work. Str20/Dex10 and Str8/Dex20 builds are going to exist among martials, as are...

Despite 6 or more* distinct versions of A/D&D in the TSR era, a huge number of play assumptions were never really spelled out. So naturally any number of groups missed, ignored, glossed over, or explicitly removed one or more of the rules or play patterns supporting or predicated on those...

Honestly, outside of maybe reddit threads, I don't know that I've seen anyone really make that mistake. Anyone who has dipped their head under the hood would have noticed it. My point, in case I was unclear, was that if point value did represented something more valuable to me, I would find...

The Hero System is my penultimate example of math in an TTRPG game that once brought me joy, but now I find "for nothing" (the ultimate example being the GURPS 3e: Vehicles rulebook). When I had much more time and less uses for my mental capacities, I built complex Hero System characters for...

1e is not cash-flush if you used the training for level-up rules (to bring up another rule that annoyed). For the hot minute we used that rule, we stripped everything to the studs and were still lean and hungry. Raise dead (we had to pay for) before name level would readily put us in the spot of...

No small part of the game at the time was about* the minutiae. Dotting the i's and crossing the t's was part of the variety/goals/decision points of gameplay. Sure, if you have a cleric and downtime, having them prepare a 4th level spell as well as the 5th level one is trivial and seems like...

Not the person you are responding to, but the concept is that a player picks favored terrains/favored enemies (most of them at level 1) and then discovers that the campaign includes effectively no deserts or orcs.