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I don't think that makes much sense.

You're not even going to mention the fact that the Rogue's stealth check is at-will while spells are a limited resource and the Invisibility spell has an opportunity cost to select? So you're balancing the classes under the assumption that spells are basically at-will abilities and attrition...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24953910 especially Kenyans.

I think these comments sum up my opinion. Dungeon sensibleness is important, but only inasmuch as it pertains to the players being able to make inferences and plans about the adventure environment. I'm not interested in geological or ecological nerdery when dungeoncrawling (nerdery meaning...

How important is it that a dungeon "makes sense", and what does that mean to you? If it is important, would you still be able to enjoy a "nonsensical" dungeon if its nonsensical because it exists in a dream or in an afterlife limbo of some sort?

When the ist is related to an ism (as it is understood to be in the case of gamist--gamism), it implies an ideological commitment. I don't think that the use of gamey mechanics should be thought of as an ideology. I think that gives too much respect in a sense to a thing that's just a tool. It's...

Looks like (click on the pictures for more info) S&W 2012 means S&W Complete plus the free S&W monster book and Eldritch Weirdness, a supplement of additional spells. The OSR Toolkit is a bunch of stuff available for free: Labyrinth Lord, Knockspell #1, Dyson's Dodecahedron #1, Philotomy's OD&D...

OK so the problem is that you think of a miss as a complete whiff. This doesn't make any sense because why would armor make you harder to touch? The fact that armor raises your AC implies that some misses are blows blocked by the armor and not complete whiffs. It's not true that the word miss...

I don't think that anybody used gamist to mean what we would rather people call gamey prior to the Forge. Gamism was a term used in the GDS theory predating the Forge's GNS, but it means the same thing there as it does in GNS. Reviewing the Forge glossary, I think they actually have a term for...

Maybe not literally confusing, but distracting. It really doesn't, to me. I have to agree with ClarenceInWonderland above, I think at this point using "his" as a generic pronoun actually sounds weirder in everyday conversation than "their". The change has already occurred.

I am a HP loss = physical beatdown kind of guy, and I don't mind this mechanic, probably because I'm already used to narrating a miss as a weak/non-penetrating hit that didn't do any damage, rather than an outright whiff. I think of natural 1s as complete whiffs, so I think even a fighter with...

I wouldn't have monsters erase the chalk out of nowhere. But if the players thought that they would and laced it with contact poison or something I would give them some XP for dead monsters. I am an adherent to the principle of being 51% in favour of the players--player creativity in itself...

Best NPC interaction: Dwellers of the Forbidden City, and the Lower Caves of the Darkness Beneath from Fight On! magazine #6. Best atmosphere: the Undercity of Khosura from Fight On #10. Best traps and tricks: White Plume Mountain, with honorable mention to Blocks of Quox from Fight On #6.

Lately I've been thinking that the blame for the lack of good sandbox modules since the early 80s should rather be placed on Gygax and the Basic D&D authors, for failing to produce a really clear articulation of the classic play style. IF this had been produced, I think that it would have...

Is it not a rule in 5e that a natural 1 always misses and a natural 20 always hits? I wouldn't mind this damage on a miss rule if you still outright missed with no damage on a natural 1.

The one that I find really irritating and indefensible is using "gamist" when they mean "gamey". People do this because they've heard the word "gamist" used in its Forge context, without understanding what it means, and then they use it to mean something different because they think using a...

"they" as a generic pronoun. It feels natural to me to use "they" when referring to a position like "the DM" rather than a specific person. Alternating between male and female pronouns is confusing and can come across as self-indulgent, especially if the author insists on always using the...

I think that's good and fair. My comment was more for other regular posters rather than for moderators.

Welcome to the forum @Archemedees , I recommend getting the chessex "pound o' dice", which is...a pound of dice, of various types. Some of the dice have cosmetic flaws but I haven't noticed any nonrandomness. It's nice to have lots of cheap dice, so if one rolls off the table and under the...

Perhaps it would be helpful to keep in mind that these guys aren't just migrating here, they were all permabanned from the WotC forums, presumably for doing there what they're now doing here.