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Tell that to GRRR Martin. Tell that to long-term fans of any sports team. Sure, everyone probably has specific favourite players at any given time but in the end it's always the team that matters, even if-when those specific favourite players aren't there any more. That's how I tend to look...

While a few key characters made it all the way through, I'd say Game of Thrones did just fine with a lot of turnover of main characters.

In a movie the mooks are ignored after they fall for reasons of runtime. In an RPG runtime is not a concern; the players can take the time to have their PCs interact further with the mooks if they want to, and for reasons of info-gathering it's often to their benefit to do so. It might also be...

Ante was a very good way of keeping some of those overpowered and expensive cards out of play so the rest of us could have a chance. :)

I often do also. But if the dice don't co-operate then it's on me to be flexible enough to pivot to plan B or C or D while shelving plan A for another time.

Double Vision would also do for Mirror Image, hm? Head Games has to go with any illusion spell e.g. Minor Image, Colour Spray, etc. Feels Like the First Time = Reincarnation (if mages still get it), or Animate Dead? Racking my brains trying to think of a spell that matches Blue Morning Blue Day...

How do you bake defense into class (other than Monk)? Only to a point, particularly when a la 1e some classes are gated behind stat requirements. I don't mind classes having primary stats where if you want to focus on something else you're intentionally playing against type and possibly hosing...

Depends. Is this a Cyclops movie (analagous to one-on-one play with the DM) or it is an X-Men ensemble movie (analagous to typical party play)? Most typical party play maps to the ensemble movies - Avengers or X-Men rather than Iron Man* or Wolverine - and in those cases the characters'...

Human --- Foreigner --- --- Hot Blooded? :)

In its early days Magic was played for ante: each player would shuffle then put the top card of the deck aside; the game's winner got both cards. Sadly, they had to do away with this because it ran afoul of gambling laws in some places. Sure it is. Not all gambling happens in casinos where...

More or less agree here; though I don't mind there being some difference between 13 and 18 in one's primary stat, it should be possible to play a character with nothing but middling stats and still be able to keep up. What I'd really like to see is a return to there being minimal if any...

Me too. Only, as a player, I took that as meaning I could do (or at least try) whatever the hell I wanted in the game - anything goes - and the DM would tell me if it worked or not and what happens next. I've got other avenues for expressing more (relatively!) serious creative freedom...

Totally agree with divorcing initiative from Dex (and from everything else); but otherwise each stat should come with something it helps everyone do: Strength - hit things, hurt things, carry things Intelligence - remember things, learn things, know things Wisdom - perceive things, analyze...

Agreed about self-training at higher levels, but that self-training still needs facilities and-or spare gear and-or people to beat up spar with and-or whatever; meaning that even self-training can easily still be made to require downtime and expense.

That's the assumption, yes. Round here, it's taken as a given that your character has about the same chance of dying etc. when you're not there that it would if you were there.

Why on earth not? I think the intent is that the individual is no longer relevant for that specific combat; it's not saying anything about afterwards or down the road e.g. an opponent that flees today might come back with some buddies tomorrow. A creature killed can still give useful info -...

Indeed. For me they're an attribute of the character all day long. Characters, or players? Even if the player isn't present at the session the character should still be there in the fiction (unless you're in downtime for that session). And if the character's there in the fiction doing what...

For the sheer amusement factor, maybe once. :) After that, repeating this process might not see you sticking around in the group for long.

Another consideration might be to dare to suggest up front right in the PH that there's going to be some character concepts the system simply won't support; the most obvious of which is The Character Who Can Do Everything. You have to pick a lane and stay in it, accepting (for any class) that...

And resolving uncertainty by random means (in our case, dice) is always a gamble. I disagree. Gambling isn't always needless risk, nor is it always reckless. Even if the odds of success (or winning) are 95% in my favour I'm still gambling that the other 5% doesn't rear its ugly head when I...