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It's true that Gygaxian Naturalism is more about worldbuilding - and notably, treating the game area like a living, logical area. But there's something more to it, especially this bit from Grognardia where the term was coined: In contrast, Gygax says (in Snarf's quote): "It does little to...

What I find ironic with this passage is the fact that Gygaxian Naturalism (as many OSR folk understand and defend) seems quite antithetical to it. Perhaps Gygax himself was not a Gygaxian...

I wonder how Counterspell works now. The unofficial nerf to Counterspell with the new statblocks has been annoying, so I'd like to see how OneD&D handles it.

Critical Role was a home game in 3E/4E era. It became a show in March 2015, by which point all 5E rulebooks were released. Stranger Things was not the end-all-be-all for 5E's success, and 5E was immensely succesful right from the get-go in its niche hobby audience. But things like Google Trends...

I really like those "ribbon" abilities, and I think the OSR influence in 5E's development process definitely affected that. I still think the "iconic" spells didn't need to be overpowered, but I definitely dislike OneD&D's turn towards standardisation. As for which factions had a hand in this...

I guess one way to make a big tent edition is... To have many sides of the big tent actively pushing for their vision in the development. To be fair, it could've gone horribly wrong. It could've been an incoherent mess that tries to do many things but fails to do any of them well. Right now, I...

Oh, I missed the new comic! I guess the Giant really meant it when he said he was going back to an early episode feel.

Actually, the Minthara fixes were removed from Patch 2 at the last minute. Patch notes don't mention her at all. My bad, her fix was added in Hotfix #5! You... Might want to reduce your expectations.

I recently wrote a quick review of every single 5E that came out so far for a Turkish hobby site, so I am actually quite prepared to talk about this! The books that I gave the lowest scores were: Hoard of the Dragon Queen + Rise of Tiamat - This dead horse has been flogged a thousand times...

Is it me or am I the only one who finds that halberd to be useless? It stuns you when you attack with it if you're not a construct - and nobody is. I had Karlach use it once and then binned it. How do you guys deal with the drawback?

Well, we agree on these points at least! But I wonder whether you think A5E's crafting system overcomes these issues then. So maybe this is something specific to my table, but I did attempt something similar to this at some point. I said they couldn't go find materials for any item wily-nily...

I agree in principle that giving players the freedom to craft the items they want and face challenges with the preparation they come up with is very rewarding, and integral to sandbox style play. In a system where the power level of magic items is properly factored in, I'd have absolutely no...

On the one hand, I dislike it when a thread devolves into something completely unrelated. On the other hand, the original topic was becoming insanely annoying, so I'm happy it devolved into something else.

I am absolutely in favour of artists, inventors and scientists making a living off of their creations (and thus be encouraged to create more). As long as copyright serves that purpose, it's great. I also think these protections extending to anything beyond one generation of close family...

I am absolutely aphantasic, I can only maintain very simple images in my head. Still, conveying TTRPG narratives only through verbal and textual descriptions in a setting of friends sat around a table (or worse, friends in a Discord call!) still immerses me more than video games. I can...

The supplies had started becoming a problem for me towards the end of Act 1 - mostly because there aren't that many occasions to buy supplies until you've cleared the situation with the Grove and Goblins. After that, it's a breeze though - I just send whatever food comes my way back to my camp...

To be frank, I haven't seen a big difference in Act 3 performance with Patch 2. I turned off two settings that apparently cause some issues (dynamic crowds and something else), but I still needed to lower my graphics settings in order to get a decent enough FPS.

Oh man, I'm writing a philosophy PhD thesis on narratives and you're wrong. Not every sequence of events automatically makes a narrative. A narrative is a narrative because there are meaningful connections - in terms of agency, explanatory power, and so on. So no, you're wrong in saying that the...

The mods needed to intervene on such a post just one page ago.