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  1. Bagpuss

    D&D 5E (2024) How to import "race" flavor into D&D 2024 inclusively

    Lower damage for small characters was never popular in 3rd Ed. Not sure there is a good reason to bring it back even if it makes sense.
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    D&D 5E (2024) How to import "race" flavor into D&D 2024 inclusively

    If every ancestry is getting it and they can put it anywhere then it isn't really tied to or have anything to do with their ancestry.
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    Ravensburger Releasing Disney RPG Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls

    Marion's for the furry market.
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    Games I own that I'll never play (again)

    All the games I mentioned before I wouldn't mind playing again, even Star Wars (so long as I wasn't running it). There is really only one game I would never play or run again even if offered money. 7th Sea 2nd Edition - A setting that should be full of drama and tension has it completely sucked...
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    Games I own that I'll never play (again)

    Could pretty much list my whole collection... :( Things I almost definitely won't play again, but have played and worthy of mention. Shadowrun 1st Ed to 4th - Rules got progressively more complex with each edition, just not the sort of thing I'd like to play, rather play a real cyberpunk game...
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    What if Earth suddenly stopped spinning?

    Not the same thing, but similar, The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray, is a novel based on an Earth that has become became tidally locked.
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    RPGing and imagination: a fundamental point

    You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. The Skill Challenge framework, is a system that determines how many success are going to be needed. By the fact it has a system, means it isn't arbitrary "based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason...
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    Spoilers Rebel Moon-my spoiler review

    It was bad. It was so bad. It was so very very bad. Unfortunately it took itself too seriously to be laughably so.
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    I want my actions to matter

    It isn't a case of challenging the GM we are talking about here, but what the actual rules say. Sure the GM can set whatever DCs they like, they could make free climbing the North Face of the Eiger, DC 5 if they like but that isn't what the rulebook suggests. That's because the vast majority...
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    I want my actions to matter

    You go anything to back up that claim, as you know it is a rulebook. I would say it is more detailed than the DMG as it breaks down each skill, rather than just giving ball park examples like the table in the DMG.
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    I want my actions to matter

    Ah PHB.
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    I want my actions to matter

    I think you missed the part where I said even the Rogues (who got 8) complained about a lack of skill points.
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    I want my actions to matter

    I'm literally quoting from the rulebook right next to me. Climb page 69 - DC 20 - A uneven surface with some narrow handholds and footholds, such as a typical wall in a dungeon or ruins. DC 25 - A rough surface, such as natural rock wall or a brick wall. A surface being wet adds +5 so that...
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    I want my actions to matter

    Except a lot of classes only got 2 skill points per level (and frequently the ones that wouldn't gain bonuses from a high Int). Standard DC for climbing a wall is 20, a rock cliff 25, with armour check penalties and the I don't think it was as fine as you make out. For Escape Artist, Manacles or...
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    I want my actions to matter

    No such thing as an optimal list, at least not one you could apply to every game or gamer. TWERPS has one attribute Strength that it uses for attack, hit points, and skill checks, and is a perfectly playable fun RPG experience. Call of Cthulhu has close to 60 on the character sheet, but with...
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    Spoilers Rebel Moon-my spoiler review

    There was a very telling scene in the opening fight where she puts the gun under the guy's chin and pulls the trigger and he just dies.
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    Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa Xmas Special & s1

    It's like he left all that baggage for Tennant's Doctor to work out.
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    Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa Xmas Special & s1

    The singing wasn't nearly as irritating as I thought it would be.
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    I want my actions to matter

    Gotta say I've fine with either way and as a DM I've used both in the past, even in the same session. To call either method bad DM is a bit hyperbolic, we don't need to insult each other over a matter of style. A lot of games (outside D&D) have actual fixed target numbers linked to the...
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    I want my actions to matter

    Any player that thinks this doesn't understand good stories, for success to be fun, interesting or meaningful in a story there needs to be a certain amount failure before hand. Thankfully I've not come across people like this after pre-school.
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