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I'm not always a horror person, but I love when it's done right. There are two that come to mind I enjoyed, that I saw on Netflix, and luckily watched during the day. Grave Encounters - for all of its corniness, I think that came from the fact they were modelling those 'ghost hunter shows'...

Personally, I was hoping for Romulans.

I think this is a struggle in a lot of forms of communication, not just in gaming. To use an example we often see on this website, if rules are too brief and not concise enough, we end up arguing Rules as Written and Rules as Intended. It's easy to run into that when you're publishing a...

I would recommend people who don't play 5e, and haven't in a long time, could find better, more actionable advice elsewhere. I would recommend author John Wick's 'Play Dirty' books - chock full of good, system agnostic advice on situations more generally applied. Otherwise, it really reeks of...

I feel saying that because WotC turns one way - let's say towards milestones - that everyone else tends to turn that way is a gross oversimplification. If that were the case, there would be even less of a market for other systems. Other systems, including OSR, come about because a community...

I like it. It doesn't seem to be any different than 3.x with DR 5/silver or DR 10/magic.

As someone who, in 3.x, fell behind fairly rapidly because of massive item creation, XP imbalance can be bad. It was worse in my situation where I was outfitting one guy who had to pull the whole party (2 PCs, 1 DM, no cups ;) ) I get the want for XP. It's handy. But I feel gaming systems...

EDIT: To be a little less JMS for a moment... I can still sort of recall those days. I remember feeling the system was strange, and weird, but really... amazing and simple. It went through a 'simple-hard-simple' phase cycle between our play time with it. It felt like no matter what, this was...

We were there, at the dawn of the Third Age of... D&D.

Makes sense. Speaking of Seattle, I could use some Piroshky Piroshky, but I'm in east Tennessee. Blah.

It sounds like, to me, Starbucks then is the Seattle version of the way Australians feel about Fosters. My understanding is No True Aussie drinks the oil can of it.

I suspect this is yet another reason the DMG has a magic item distribution tracker SPECIFICALLY in there - to make sure martials aren't falling behind. To me, it seems there's a lot of pearl-clutching for the poor single classed fighter in What If scenarios... meanwhile, many posts about...

Do we know that for certain? I've not read the DMG and I'd be curious to see where it is, so feel free to quote. What they specify in the PHB pg 28 (2024) is that IF you had Resist Necromancy and Resist All Damage, it only counts once. Damage is halved, not quartered. I have no problem with...

Actually, from the same article I quoted previously, I would assume PSB resistances still exist because of this text on Deflect Attacks: Deflect Attacks — Level 3 Formerly Deflect Missiles, as the name might suggest, Deflect Attacks now has much more usability. No longer limited to Ranged...

I only did a quick google, because I didn't want to run down to my car, but... if what I saw online for 6th level monks is correct, it's not that their blows aren't magical - Empowered Strikes lets the monk choose to do either Force damage or their normal damage type. Force damage would bypass...

I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but I was glad to see that it specificially says you can only take a long rest every sixteen hours. I'm sure 2014 might have said that, but I don't know anyone that did it here. It was like alpha, long rest, alpha, long rest... ymmv

For me, I feel I have a decent system mastery of the games I play. I personally don't enjoy min maxing. I will, for instance, if the game is set up as some kind of survival/no punches pulled scenario, but even then, I play a support role. I don't mean a cleric, for example, but rather I fill...

If only we see Bolo from Aeor try to get her drinks from 'these bags' <points at automatons>

Side note: one thing I noticed in the 24 PHB that I'm not sure I saw in 2014, and I'm sure I didn't see used at tables I was at, was the clarification that you can only take a long rest once every 16 hours. No alpha strike, sleep for eight hours, alpha strike, sleep for eight hours. That...

I default to something game designer John Wick said, and I believe: When people talk about 'game balance', really what it seems they're talking about is 'equal spotlight'. In my experiences, it's not that players are concerned that the thief does X more damage always, as much as they want...