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You start off really well. CR is inherently flawed because a monster is going to be easy against some groups of its CR and hard against others, depending on class make-up, ability picks, player ability, etc. Where you go off the path, though, is the argument that an ogre with 111 hit points...

Tell that to the goose that I grabbed by the neck at 4 and dragged back to my family to show. Apparently it was a mean one Mr. Grinch, and went to bite people who got too close. I didn't know better and got my hands around it at a point where it couldn't bite me, purely accidently I'm sure...

Further, since grandma also has 1 hit point, those 1 hit point ogres should be invalids. The whole minion thing is a narrative device, which is why it rubs sim players the wrong way.

I don't think it's a misreading of the rules, since I doubt he read the rules, but I could be wrong about that. Rather I think that he's relying on what many proponents of 4e have argued over the years as a selling point of 4e. That a monster who is a full monster when it's level appropriate...

Maybe. Home field advantage is a term for a reason. The PCs aren't going to know the ins and outs of the terrain like the monsters will.

I mean, you're both right. Setting off alarms can use up resources. And yes they would scout and use other tactics. At which point the PCs could go on an extended set off the alarms situation to wear down the enemy, and they'd try to take counter measures to that. That's how strategy and...

That works both ways.

If that's the full text of what Luke wrote, it looks to me like the complaint is taking the defamation accusation a lot farther than Luke actually did. This is from the complaint: "Defendant Luke Gygax posted a lengthy Facebook post deriding Chris Clark’s Castle Wolfmoon Kickstarter and...

I think you're baffled, because that has never been my argument. I've already repeatedly shown that D&D does provide information, even if it's sometimes minimal information. You don't want to accept that, but that doesn't mean that I don't see it and use it.

The problem with those is that it's hard to keep the halflings from throwing up.

I've shown how the method to get to the result can matter a great deal to people. It alters the feel of the thing sometimes a little, and sometimes by a huge amount. Speaking for myself, I will only alter an encounter or whatever to make it fair. It's already going to be very fun, enjoyable...

Method matters. 10x10=100. So does 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1...........+1+1+1=100. It's not about the result in many cases. It's about how you got there. 10x10=100 is fine to me. The second method there is super annoying. That's why the cook being there with a sim method is fine, but having her be...

For the record, I would not adjust the encounter under those circumstances. I had that happen in my last campaign. The group was way down on resources from some drow fights and instead of leaving the area to rest, they decided to rest within a few hundred feet of the main drow strong area...

It depends on the role. If it's Superman, or Glinda, or another character pre-established before it makes the big screen or TV, then the first person didn't define the role. If the role has never been done before, the first person defines what the role is. Everyone after that person cannot...

Gygax wrote 1e for others, not to represent the way he played his personal game. His game from all accounts was very different from the 1e rules.

James Doohan made Scotty. He WAS Scotty. The only way to be more Scotty than Doohan is to be a better Doohan doing Scotty than Doohan was. Other actors can do Scotty differently, and very well, but they can't be a better Scotty than Doohan. At best you can like the differences in the new...

A drain that large would have been noted by other stations and he would have been found out long before he was. This is true.

M'Benga did it long term in this series with his daughter using only the medical bay transporter. It doesn't seem to take much of the computer power.

I agree with most of what you said there, except for this. James Doohan WAS Scotty. Saying he does Scotty better than Scotty, is like saying some actor in the future could be better at being you than you. :P That said, I do very much agree that this Scotty is very good.

And not just transporters. You'd have Scotty say something like, "If I just hook up the phase translocater to the warp coils while playing solitaire, I think we can hit warp 45." And then he succeeds, yet nobody keeps the upgrades or puts them on future ships. They've done that sort of...