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I'll take that, 20 internets on Morrow.

Conan isn't the only Swords and Sorcery. Elric wields magic. The Grey Mouser wields magic.

Nope, just carry straight on to level four, explaining how to transfer the data from the cards onto a character sheet at that point. Simple and natural.

Emergent storytelling is a skill even some veterans could stand to learn.

Yeah, put my down for a mixture of (usually heavily modified) premade and homebrew as well.

Not to mention Indiana Jones and his imitators.

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I mean, it did look to be communicating with the "flies" (I notice we are still taking ques from real world biology here). It has been suggested that it controlled the ticks to engineer their escape. It may even have been able to implant a suggestion in Nibs. Whatever, I would suggest it's...

"You're going to need a bigger card." That's the fundamental issue. The point is to have all the information the player needs on the card, so they don't need to refer to the rules. But the amount of things a character can do grows rapidly with level, so level 4 won't fit on the same card as...

Are you thinking of action point based manoeuvre systems? Possible I guess, but I think there were others around at the time, including some mini-games in White Dwarf itself. Snapshot and Azhanti High Lightning used action points, but Car Wars may possibly have been the first to apply them to...

Didn’t care for it actually - it was too obvious for my taste. Prefer Pythons to Brooks.

I grew up in the wrong country to have ever played the Oregon Trail. Which may explain different mindsets. It’s hard for me to imagine not being within a day’s journey of an inn, so the only thing to not run out of is money.

I think D&D is the only place that has ever happened. In the fiction torches are either created as required or picked up from convenient sconces. So far as I know, miners used tallow candles before lanterns were invented.

I read the book when I was 8! And talking of upper middle class I have seen it on some public school reading lists. But I guess there hasn’t been a TV or movie version since the 90s, so I guess the muppets killed it off. Shame they couldn’t do the same for Christmas Carol, we still seem to get...

Does the eye have some sort of psychic powers?

What my players are familiar with often seems strange to me. Doctor Strangelove? “We can’t fight in here, this is the war room!” Treasure Island? “I’ve only seen the muppet version”.

80% of my players are under 40, and quote Monty Python fairly regularly. Although that may say more about my players and my game than anything else.

No one needs create food and drink. I conjure a flock of turkeys and fireball them. Roast turkey for dozens. Ice Storm and there is plenty of water for everyone. If I have this magic running out of food and water is nonsensical.

That’s completely contrary to how I see D&D. It’s first and foremost a fiction simulator. If a spell can be used in a way not specified in the rules, the players are not only allowed, but actively encouraged to get creative. D&D is not chess. The rules are there to support the fiction. And...

Why not? If I can magically create a ball of fire, surely I can magically create a ball of drinking water? I thought you were a simulationist? This “supply” seems hard-core gamist, making no sense in the fiction of the world. I get a metal funnel and put it in a bottle. Then I cast Ray of Frost...