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I think this is leaning a bit into prescriptivism, to be fair. I tend to agree that in my experience there is a difference between optimization and breaking the rules/munchkining, but I have to concede that these definitions are not universal. The origin of Pun-Pun was the WotC 3E and 3.5...

'Struth. "Vagabond". ;)

I think you're excluding the middle. It's at least partly an advert, and should be a showcase for the awesome things the game does better than/differently from D&D.

That's wild. Rock follicles? :LOL:

I did manage to get back in last night. Dumbbell bench, dumbbell behind-the-head skull crushers, dumbbell seated inclined curls, and dumbbell lateral raises, three sets of each plus a few drop sets to extend them. It felt good to get back, and the temperature seems to have broken a bit today...

Well, every now and then I DO kick the living s*** outta me. Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk?

Yeah, it's tricky. Ideally the players should learn the rules and know what the heck they're doing. OTOH, quite a lot of our players in real life don't do that, so playing with those kind of players is showing off an extremely common use-case.

Quick selfie at a local Irish pub for a punk show recently. Burly Girlies and The Worst were both amazing.

That does look pretty.

I got a shipment notice three days ago, but it hasn't shown yet.

This heat wave has been death to my motivation, and I was up late both nights over the weekend, so I have not made it back to the gym since the 18th. Which feels crappy. OTOH I have been willing myself to continue the daily PT exercises regardless; I think I skipped one day after being up...

Love this whole post. This bit jumped out at me though.... In my last campaign the party found an undead-slaying sword and I gave it a similar detection ability, although that sword glowed at all times, so I had the brightness double (from a 15' radius light to 30') when within 60' and LOE of...

-3! ;)

My brother's birthday was over the weekend, and I got a few of our friends together to run a D&D one shot on Friday night. I decided to try out Shadowdark, and the Wavestone Monolith module which Bryce had praised and is available free online. We had a great time, and I resisted my urges to...

I'm still gradually (but enjoyably) working through Fine's Shared Fantasy. I'm in the middle of a section of chapter 3 which talks about players and referees mediating and fighting for their own view of the fantasy, though things like cheating at dice rolls and arguing over the rules and...

The first draft of OD&D used a formula rather than tables. https://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2018/09/why-did-armor-class-descend-from-9-to-2.html Gary also indicated in the 1E DMG that he considered switching to ascending, but kept the old way because existing players were all used to...

Good memory on the EC Comics call out. Dr. Strange definitely had some influence as well, including famously a couple of images from OD&D being traced from/ "inspired by" images from Dr. Strange comics. https://www.enworld.org/threads/doctor-strange-the-original-d-d-grognard.663932/