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Sure. What I meant was that it was intended to drain resources. Whether it actually does comes down to the players. If they're savvy enough to resolve/bypass it without resources expenditure, more power to them. The flip side is that they sometimes spend resources on thing that weren't...

I'll admit, I'm not a fan of what the hypothetic GM did in this example, but by itself, it's not indicative of anything, which is why you were told that a pattern of behaviour should be established. If there were multiple examples of you being stymied like that, absolutely the GM is at fault...

Personally, I've never considered there to be one. As far as D&D is concerned, I've always viewed it as any situation that was designed to drain resources.

Coming back to this. During the earlier fight with Jade Fox, where Li Mu Bai intercedes, later followed by Jen, this technique gets mentioned again when Li Mu Bai asks Jen where she learnt it. In the English dub, Li Mu Bai seems to say "xuanping". Not sure of the first syllable, but the second...

Okay, Green Destiny, take two: The Green Destiny This exquisitely crafted jian has a blade that appears to be inlaid with jade and is decorated with a finely sculpted jade guard. The techniques used to make it are unknown. The sword is said to only be fully utilised with specific martial arts...

Odin really needs to change it up a bit. The framing means the GM has thrust an encounter upon the party. They have some choice in how they resolve it, but the hard framing precludes bypassing being a possibility.

I hadn't considered that. Maybe, instead of fixed bonuses, they scale with ranks in Internal Martial Arts? i.e +1-3d10 damage, +1-3d10 bonus, and 1-3 extra wounds. That is where I've hit a stumbling block. There's a few signature abilities already in the book that could be considered to...

I'm not sure this is actually true of 5e. Back in the early days of 5e, Jeremy Crawford mentioned that they assumed 6-8 encounters a day, with 2-3 short rests, per adventuring day. Plenty of people - my self included - understood this (as far as D&D is concerned) as any situation that was...

I could never get into V:TR, but this all sounds on par with my view of V5. I am not as informed on the details as I could be, care to elaborate?

You expect a GM to withhold an answer from you? Why is that? Several of the trad-leaning GMs here have already stated that they would answer such questions from a player, because it would go toward building trust.

It's potential fiction, but it's potential fiction that the players are aware of occurring in some capacity, and due to that awareness, take steps to ensure it is not fully actualised. @Lanefan already gave an example

"I bypassed that traffic jam." "I avoided an encounter with my ex at the party."

Given @Campbell has mentioned L5R a few times, I'd be curious for their view on it. I only got into it with 4th ed and it seemed to have a metaplot almost on par with WoD, but the latest edition (FFG/Edge's 5e) apparently has basically reset things back to 1e's status quo. Contrary to some...

Nice. Was localisation always in the works, or did it need to meet a certain threshold of commercial success to warrant?

Since they haven't been posted here yet Here (instagram) is a brief interview with Jason Carl about what it means going forward. And here is another with Rob Weiland for Forbes.

It's fallacious. Quality is not always an indicator of success. If it was, betamax would have won against VHS, Android would be more popular than iOS, and neither Michael Bay or Zack Snyder would have a career.

More shifting goalposts. I never said anything about success, just that the core is adaptable. D20 Modern (and it's spiritual successor, Everyday Heroes)? Star Wars d20? Stargate SG-1/Spycraft? Given Pathfinder 1e is basically D&D3.75, that and Starfinder?

They're not mutually exclusive. There are certainly people trying to cash in on the popularity of the system, but there's also those who find it adaptable enough. What is it with people shifting goalposts? Who said anything about being them being good? Frankly, I haven't found any generic...

On this note, I absolutely loved Kagan McLeod's art for RBRB. His blending of the classic East Asian style with a more Western comic style was gorgeous.

There's a gross pervasive attitude that art isn't worth much, it's just a pretty picture. But you're not just paying the piece, you're paying for the manhours spent on it, the years of practice developing the expertise, the materials/software used to make it. Artists are skilled workers...