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So there's one major thing that basically every Star Wars hardcore completionist is likely to "get wrong" (by which I mean more miss out on), along with many people creating Star Wars media to cater to completionists, but that I think a casual fan is likely to "get right". And that is that Star...

I like class and subclass abilities that: A) are reasonably straightforward without being overly fiddly or confusing (ie: user friendly); B) are powerful enough to be worth keeping track of but not game breakingly powerful (so: worthwhile in a balanced way); and C) are evocative of the...

Emphasis on this looking like the "AI mill" end of the AI trailer genre, where it's just a series of "look we have these characters" shots. It doesn't seem to reveal nearly as much plot and world-building as something like:

Of sure. I just meant that in this "casuals don't know X" vein I used to officially have the deep knowledge of X, but now I just have "legendary" knowledge of X, and someone else gets to one up me with the "official" deep knowledge and consider me a casual. It was mainly a joke. The point is...

I disagree with the hardcore/casual dichotomy for this franchise, because it is a franchise where I think your version of "hardcore" are less common than the third group: people who were hardcore for some part of Star Wars, but drew the line at others. Whether it is because of aging out of...

See the the AT-AT scene just made me think "why is there an AT-AT sized trail up a mountain?" and "well having one fall off like that is pretty obviously the the main reason you wouldn't try to take AT-ATs up a mountain even if you had such a trail" (the other reason being that they could not...

I've played regularly in a couple open table 5e campaigns at a game shop, and run a few sort of open table sessions at a summer camp (the kids who made characters with me were the ones told when it was happening, but of course if a kiddo sees us playing and wants to participate they get to...

I think Eberron is a really cool and very original setting with very impressive world building. And I would probably never run a campaign there. As I explained over in the Forgotten Realms companion thread, I run games in Forgotten Realms because it is familiar, and has a vast lore that most...

Personally I just think an Eldritch Knight (of a certain level at least) should get to use action surge for magic if they want to. The "problem" with classic 5e action surge was the lure of a two level Fighter dip for otherwise strictly mage characters to improve their magic through a function...

I use it for most campaigns because it is familiar with vast lore to draw upon available on a handy wiki, but nobody I play with is actually invested enough to care when we change something or make up our own stuff. Also it's so kitchen sink and cosmopolitan that it can accommodate almost...

My guess is that it is at least partly inspired by the fact that dragons in heraldry had to be reducible to simple descriptions (blazons) which generally meant each given object has a single color, which tends to be visually striking. But then again that wouldn't explain why other heraldric...

Well it may be a godawful small affair to the girl with the mousey hair, but I think it's pretty amazing news!

Love of (and time investment in mastering) 2014 5e is the fundamental reason I despise 2024 5e. While I generally like exploring new game systems, learning 2024 was just a miserable slog because it really does almost nothing new while making enough (often seemingly arbitrary) changes to force a...

So I just rewatched the recent Superman movie, and this time around noticed even more how consistently they follow up nearly every bit of violence with little verbal or visual asides establishing that everyone is okay. It was clearly a move to differentiate themselves from Man of Steel, and...

Some will be disappointed. Some will just see it as finally getting to take the training wheels off.

Yeah about 20% of participants really not liking the the thing being scored is bound to do that. Just as the 60 odd people who scored it 7-10 boosts the score up. Now one of those side's I agree with and one of them I don't, but I'll respect their statistical impact equally in those broad...

Or raise it. In any case this sort of rating will always call loudest to those who want to evangelize and those who want to complain. And yet most the proponents know it isn't a perfect ten, and even most of us detractors recognize and admit it could have been worse, so it's going to land...

A lot of D&D youtubers went down a clickbait route during the OGL-gate days and got addicted to those quick and easy views. Aside from being annoying, it also feels kind of short-sighted because that crap all ages like milk, whereas quality ttrpg-related content, particularly relatively...

This! I was a pretty happy 5e camper. Then the dark shadow of playtest nonsense began to cloud the horizon. I think the basic issue is that just running these games requires so much thought about game design principles that most people who really get into it become armchair game designers, and...

Well the thing about complicated game systems is they have lots of moving bits and pieces and you don't really confront them all at once, so I've been through the whole curve several times over with different aspects of this edition, and inevitably will again as they reissue random remix...