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I would agree with Rabulias that the minimum applies to the total. So if you have a fighter with a +3 Con bonus, for each hit die you roll (1d10+3), the minimum result is 6. That makes the effective range for each hit die 6-13 rather than 4-13. Not a huge benefit, but nice. And there's no real...

I think a major part of the ranger's identity crisis comes from too many ways to encroach on its mojo (starting with the barbarian in 1e's Unearthed Arcana) and on trying to develop niche protection for it in all the wrong ways in 2e (with two-weapon fighting and tracking being available but...

The bonus damage against giant-class enemies applied to melee damage. I don't believe there was any provision for it to apply to missile weapons. That said, it was still a lot better than the 2e +4 to hit against a poorly defined favored enemy. From what I remember of the 1e days, a lot of...

I'm not sure the majority WAS quite so different from that. Maybe not as over the top silly, but the cast of characters was chock full o' nuts or chaos agents. Chetney, Fern, Laudna (particularly with Pâté), Fresh-Cut Grass/Braius Doomseed... all generated a fair amount of weird comic moments...

Yeah, I’d agree with that. FMJ’s Vietnam segment is more impressionistic than Stone’s experience-grounded Platoon, so that part of the movie for me fits in more with Apocalypse Now, a movie I enjoy, but that Platoon still kind of blows away.

Seriously?!? That is totally effed up.

I think prior posts are right that it depends a lot on the game involved. In Call of Cthulhu, I generally consider a hit to involve contact since the hit points ablated are so few, based on physical stats, and don't change as an investigator gains in skill and experience. In D&D or Star Wars...

Same here.

Is it time to dump Disney+ and Hulu now? Maybe...

A very serious hypothesis. It's helped by the fact that violence peaked and dropped off pretty much everywhere in the US at the same time, which suggests a wide-spread, even airborne, environmental factor that was phasing out of the environment about 20ish years before the decline. And that fits...

I think Schindler's List would fit the definition of a hit as far as matching criteria - drawing a lot of business/ticket sales. But I think you're right in that people wouldn't normally call it a hit - doing so would be awkward and wouldn't match the unusual gravity of the subject matter. I...

Ooooo, schadenfreude! My favorite!

Sometimes it's clear when someone really doesn't exist in the same universe as I do.

Is it just me or has this taken, like, FOREVER?

Well, there's another RPG system that I'm going to avoid touching with a 10 foot pole.

Same here, I assume it's some ad that's doing it when it gets served up.

Wow. That's some... some fiction right there. I always wonder at how someone can read the same things I read and come away with such different information.

I'm not sure I'd characterize interactions with a certain poster as red flags, but they sure are weird flags. Weird enough for me to have wondered if they were a chat bot at one point.

Wait... did you dis the McRib?!?

You could totally do them in It Came from the Late, Late Show.