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I AM HERE! MARVEL AND BE DISMAYED!

Speak Fitly or be Silent Wisely. ― Faintly Macabre, again. She gets around! Or doesn't, really, as she's in prison...

An Ill-chosen Word is the Fool's Messenger. - Faintly Macabre, the Not-so-Wicked Which

I've often thought of writing a wall of text ahead of time, in Notepad++, and dividing it up based on post size. Anticipating objections and comments and working up responses and writing those up as well. And then posting, one after another, for a page or two. It seems like a lot of work to...

Speaking of which, I mean, what they did to Luke Skywalker... I could go on... ... Should I go on? That's the real question.

"Dire halflings" are a thing; humans, like @dragoner said. "Voir dire" is a thing; where a legal representative questions people to determine biases. Therefore "voir halflings" exist, where a legal representative questions people to determine if any of them are halflings in disguise (maybe two...

--- How very dare you!* *Not on any forum, that was a Real Life reaction.

I was able to recall the page numbers and issue of Dragon magazine where I'd seen an article that intrigued me ("Who Gets the First Swing? Attack Priority System Offers More Realism Without More Work", Dragon #73, starting on, I want to say, a page in the 20s) almost four decades after I'd read...

Honest question: who the heck do you think you are? Another honest question: don't you know who I am?

When my dad wanted to sell his house and move to Florida (as the Law requires when you hit a certain age), he got one of the Radon tests done. They put this bucket-sized meter in the basement where it sat for a while*. When they ran the tests, the results came back very mildly positive for Radon...

... the last Royal Governor of New Jersey! He established that it is called Taylor Ham, by Royal proclamation!

Listen, money is tight right now, I can't afford any clues. The tariffs alone are high here to the Land of Ignorance (i.e., New Jersey)!

But you only do that calculation once. In superhero games, you pretty much have to do recalculations.

I mean, Growth changed your body weight. And that one wasn't rare.

You have to recalculate if anything changes your weight, Strength, or Endurance. Which does happen with some powers...

Yes, but there's complicating factors. It's relative velocity, so if two characters are running at each other, you combine their speeds. And when you convert real-world things into game terms, you have to be comfortable doing some formulas; that's true of every game, though -- you can't just...

They do. But one of the things is most GMs constrain player character SPD to a small range (slightly larger in superhero games) just to make sure no one PC his the limelight. And you don't actually need a high SPD to reproduce most Speedster powers. It's a very flexible game. Once my players...

I think 4E with every splatbook probably had higher crunch, but AD&D 1E had more vanilla-straight-out-of-the-box. You had all those inconsistent subsystems detailed in the DMG and PHB; the systems in 4E were at least consistent. Mostly. That's why my group shifted to Champions/Hero System. Less...