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But as with car parts, buying second hand computer parts isn't for the average consumer and certainly not for the not-Tech person that's running that 10+ year old machine. They don't know what they need exactly, they wouldn't even know how to read a compatibility list. Chances are good that they...

But you don't have car mechanics, you have tank mechanics, because a Lada is supposedly built like a tank! ;) But Ladas are known to be cheap and easy to work with. There's a difference in income, hourly rates, car costs, car parts, and rules depending on location. There's a big difference...

That is not entirely accurate. Clock speeds don't say much about capacity/performance anymore. It's like talking about a cars speed when you actually want to know how much stuff it can move per hour between point A and B. If we look at an AMD 1800X from 2017 and an AMD 7800X3D, there is still...

If you want a decent experience, you want to use a good VTT. But you could play D&D over the phone or even over radio... There are even instances of play-by-mail (actual snailmail)... But all that, is not what we're talking about. Using Teams, Zoom, Slack, etc. to play D&D might be technically...

That's like saying, you have to buy a house to play D&D in... People that are interested in playing with Tech (D&D via VTTs) generally already have Tech. Be it a tablet, a laptop or PC. You could theoretically even play on a smartphone or console... People that aren't interested in playing that...

Converting to wepb images helps. And it helps that I'm hosting via 1gig up/1gig down fiber in Europe. Our friend in Australia might have to wait for the postal pigeon to arrive with the USB stick though... ;) It also helps that it caches locally, so it's not constantly loading.

It also depends which VTT you're using in the browser, Foundry VTT works fine in the browser with dynamic lighting, (spell) effects, etc. If you want you can even run it as a 3d engine with the right Foundry Module... A modern browser (Chrome/Edge/Firefox/Safari) can use hardware acceleration...

Why bother changing that much? The actual PCs got a premonition via one of their hag allies that a party of heroes would collect the Rod of Seven Parts to thwart Vecna. They killed the hag, so it couldn't repeat the premonition and they murdered the heroes and took their place, pulling a...

I also got started with RPGs via 'scouts' (Dutch: scouting) ~35 years ago...

I have to disagree here, ttrpg is about whatever you want it to be. If it's only about playing a game, it's fine. If it's about meeting new people, that's also fine. For me it's generally about playing something fun with friends. Online isn't for everyone, I can totally understand that. But...

Couple of issue that you're stacking together and influencing the 'golden age of RPGs' in a negative way for you. #1 Limiting to local players only (no online). #2 Going through just the local FLGS #3 Setting your game to your preferred system (OSR?), which is a relatively small niche compared...

I know that reading is hard, but that's why I said: "Add to that the comments and the context, then you don't have to think deeply to make some conclusions on why that situation is what it was..." As is the other sexist remarks and comments written in the margins... And apparently we give a...

It isn't, because the world 'original D&D' was created in, isn't the world now, no 'Internet', nor easy access to world wide information. You were generally stuck with what books your local library had and what books yourself had. And to be honest, I don't expect the collection of books on...

+1/+2/+3 DC could be very strong, it depends on the spells and could require attunement, just like the spell recovery. The stacking also happens with ranged attacks with a bow +2 and arrows +2 You could even add a Giant/Dragon slaying into that mix. As for melee characters vs spellcasters. A...

Background: I'm currently playing a Warlock that has a "Wand of the War Mage +1" and two other attunement items. Now I have gotten my hands on another attunement item and choices are now hard on what to attune. I was thinking of other non-spellcasting classes and how they handle the limited...

A Monk, a Fighter, an Artificer, and maybe a Bard?

Kind of depends on what I would want to play... If everything functions as a human mechanically anyway, you could play anything. A Kitsune? A Minotaur? A Centaur. Or just one of the classic Elf/Dwarf/Gnome/Human? What would I be in the mood for? These days I often play something human adjacent...

Wow... That title... It's about expectations and mutual respect. You're playing a game together: the players and the DM, each person has it's own responsibility, but there is a shared ownership and not an absolute ownership. Not for the DM and not for the players. But if people want to and...

And that is the problem of the 'otherside', trying to brand people as 'bad' or 'evil' if they enjoyed a game from 50 years ago. Even if it's phrased (semi-)jokingly. That is also why a LOT of people's first reaction is assuming a defensive posture and try to defend what they like(d). But it...

WotC/Hasbro don't deserve anything. They are a (big) corporation, they have been for over a decade, with many different people working there, all with different visions. 'Trusting' a group of people you don't know and knowing that group of people will continue to change in composition is the...