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I think the events in the article are fictional and intended to illustrate the author's feeling of being intimidated by hate mail. I 100% believe that anonymous death threats to feminist game critics do happen, and that is a serious problem. I don't have a solution to that. That's not something...

S'mon Thanks for the reply upthread. Hakeem sounds very Conan-esque :D I know 5e, with how complex the characters are, is not really suited for a meatgrinder game. I love the high risk / high reward feel of AD&D though, where losing a character is like busting in poker or knocking down the...

No you want to roll high so you meet or beat your THAC0. If you do that, you know you hit for sure (assuming ACs equal or greater than zero). If you don't, you might still hit anyway depending on the monster's AC. In practice it feels more immediate than roll, add, announce and wait for...

There is no arithmetic; just comparisons. If the die lands 11-20, the attacker compares it with their THAC0. If the die lands 1-10, the defender compares it with their AC. A negative THAC0 is extremely unlikely...maybe you can achieve that in like BGII Throne of Bhaal, but it's nothing to worry...

Hmm. good point. We've been using group cyclic initiative, which makes coordination even easier than individual cyclic. I might move to AD&D style of simultaneous initiative, but I think even if that removes most incidences of popup healing in practice, I would still want to get rid of...

What about Genre Causal Logic? Ie the PCs live in a world where dramatic and interesting things are more likely to happen than the real world, but they're not assumed to be protagonists.

S'mon based on your experience, what do you think of 0 HP = dead in the 2nd tier, with no revivify and new PCs coming in at level 5?

The best way to use THAC0 is the player announces a hit if the attack roll result is ≥ THAC0 and the DM announces a hit if the result is ≤ the monster's AC. This is actually superior to d20 + attack bonus vs. ascending AC.

I've been convinced that it's worthwhile to houserule death and dying. I think I'm going to go with one death saving throw, rolled after the battle is over. Not sure what I want to do with Revivify yet.

All fair points. When I mentioned liquidity I was thinking of not just how easily healing resources can be converted into HP but the overall "accounting liquidity" of how that squares with incoming damage, or basically how easy it to manage party health and keep everybody alive. This is very...

Hemlock Thanks, great post. That's the kind of deep system knowledge I'm looking for here. You didn't touch on the Druid's Wildshape temp HP though; do you not think that's a concern? It looks like that makes them really hard to kill. I think I'm OK with summoning being really powerful (I like...

A few posters recently have expressed dissatisfaction with how soft the rules for death and dying are in 5e. I share this sentiment and would like to make 0HP a scarier prospect with a houserule or two, but I'm concerned with how this would impact class balance. There seems to have been a...

Thanks! That would be hardcore. Maybe that would have happened if I had made starvation a more pressing concern for the PCs, as I originally had planned.:lol:

Ran sessions on Saturday and last night. The campaign really took off on Saturday--very fun session. Exactly right -- I invented a watchtower near the mine and let the PCs have a good look around for about 10 miles. That along with me not doing fractional turns anymore (the players choose a...

The simplest way to make gold matter is to give 1 XP per GP acquired. This is an easy house rule in 5e.

I miss THAC0! But when I use it I say an attack roll is successful if the result is equal or greater than THAC0 or equal or less than AC. This is actually faster and easier than attack bonus/ascending AC. It would work even better in 5e due to bounded accuracy. I also miss some of the ecology...

S'mon tangential question about your Wilderlands campaign: do you use the original '70s material or the 3e version?

Let me restate to try to make it clearer--I think the reason I dislike encounters or adventures that feel contrived, but am not generally a stickler for realism or plausibility, is because it usually means the DM has taken more control over how things will play out than they ought to in an RPG.

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