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Huh. Well, in the one built into Firefox, whatever that may be, it's hot garbage. Or it's possible my download of it got corrupted somehow.

The pdf preview for the Witcher RPG is really messed up. None of the text is readable. I don't mean I don't like the font, I mean it's literally not readable - it comes out as garbled placeholder thingies instead of text.

Dark Sun was probably the first thing I ever became curmudgeonly about. They created this setting with all these intriguing plot seeds DMs could do all sorts of things with, then in the first licensed series meant to introduce the setting to people they destroyed a huge chunk of them. Killing...

I've been thinking about this as I read (parts of) the mammoth New Jedi Order series from the former Star Wars canon (what's now called Legends). Unfortunately it's unlikely to ever happen, not just because too many key people have aged out of the right range for it or outright died, but also...

Whatever other problems this era may have, I don't think this contradicts anything in the established lore. (Not that that's been a high priority for any DW production team, outside maybe seasons 20-22 or so of the original series.) In fact, we've seen a previous instance of it, and it even...

No question in my mind. I expect that to be a major plot element in his specials, or certainly in at least one of them.

It's kind of a rummage sale of a script and doesn't make that much more sense with than without a knowledge of the lore. But I guess Fugitive of the Judoon and the last three episodes of Whitaker's second season (so season 12, episodes 5, 8, 9, and 10), and enough of Flux to have a rough idea...

Not an era I'll miss, and as usual for Chibnall era Doctor Who, they tried to cram too much into the script and the emotional beats mostly felt unearned. In this case, mostly because they were so self-referential, depending entirely on being engaged with Doctor Who lore. Still, this had...

Sounds like a good idea for a third-party support product, or if it's really small maybe a Gate Pass Gazette pitch.

It wasn't quite that simple. The licenses for movies and for the books were held by different entities and somehow the RPG rights fell into the movie rights bucket. That entity, they had no immediately obvious problems working with, and so for a while it looked like a TSR Middle Earth setting...

Played in a fairly long-running one back in the 90s, and ran a comparatively short-lived one in the 2000s. I think a game I was briefly in around 1990 might have been set there too, it was never quite clear to me as the parts I was in were mostly contextless dungeon crawl.

Ah, that would indeed be the "I'm overthinking this and it's actually quite simple" possibility. Just to clarify where I'm coming from, to me "The higher" is a very strong indicator that we're looking for exactly one thing ("The"), namely the largest member ("higher") of some set (almost...

I'm always curious when people find stuff like this confusing, as it's always good to have clearer ways of conveying this kind of information when writing rules. Writing these somewhat mathematical bits has a lot of pitfalls. A wording that is completely clear to me will often just confuse my...

From a previous thread of a similar nature, I thought " a congress of gibbering mouthers" was a standout.

I'd go so far as to say they're one of the definitive meta-currencies. They're probably the thing that codified that concept for a lot of people.

I was going to make a closely related point. Basically, combat as sport vs combat as war. Early on, most fights were pretty deadly (moreso than modern players are used to, at least) and gave little XP directly, but out of the box thinking and using the environment to your advantage could be...

Read the section "Passive Checks" on page 175 of the Player's Handbook. The bonus applies to passive checks using those two skills.

I don't see how that's any easier (or harder) than my suggestion. What it does do is make Slow much more powerful against such creatures than my suggestion. Most creatures get three legendary actions (of those that get any at all), and while my suggestion would reduce that to two, yours, in...

The first three words of what you quoted ("On its turn...") are the important bit here, not the part you bolded. (Though the theme is reiterated at the end of the bold part - "during its turn.") Legendary actions are not taken on the creature's turn, and thus the whole quoted section is...

I'd say the most important things to get in book form are any lore-heavy ones you want to use. Most of the key mechanical resources are electronic. You want the Character Builder with the latest CBLoader patch; links can be found on the 4E subreddit, though Discord is where the real 4E action...