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  1. billd91

    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    I actually tote that in my game bag for the FR game I'm running now. I'm running 5e, but everything's compatible enough. It's a fun and evocative little supplement, particularly for the food.
  2. billd91

    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    Some groups like the style role playing out major shopping events - mainly magic items and other unique stuff - others don't. But my experience is also that shopping role play is very different with 3-4 players compared to a table with 6-8 players. I think role playing out shopping has come in...
  3. billd91

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I aspire to be more than a Cautionary Tale.
  4. billd91

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Every once in a while, I am reminded of exactly why I made the decision to ignore someone on these boards. Thank you, Past Me, for looking out for Present Me... on this topic anyway. We'll discuss my health later.
  5. billd91

    Redirected to "Google" Site When Browsing EnWorld.

    I got an instance of it happening today and, after mentioning it in the other related thread, I'm posting the broken URL here in case it helps...
  6. billd91

    RPG Evolution: Weight, What?

    Both the 5e.2014 and 5e.2024 define getting something out of the bag of holding as an action (Utilize action is specified in 2024). The handy haversack also takes an action in 2014, but in 2024 it can be done as a Utilize action or a bonus action (player's choice).
  7. billd91

    starprize.za.com

    Nah, still happening to me - multiple times today. Happening mainly on my older iMac with an out of date version of the OS and Safari, so that's probably one reason it's leaking through any potential security.
  8. billd91

    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    I definitely have questions about how things were with Orion around the table BEFORE the show. Did the show, and the potential to ham it up for a valuable audience, bring out these play issues or make them worse? Were they already there but took on a toxic dimension in a public forum?
  9. billd91

    Spoilers What do casual fans get wrong about Star Wars?

    Well, Force sensitivity does seem to be potentially heritable. But that doesn't seem to be the only factor involved - at least not officially. It just seems like heredity is the major factor because people keep writing the stories about the Skywalker and Palpatine families rather than everyone else.
  10. billd91

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    JHC, not that stupid viewpoint again! Yes, I said it. That viewpoint IS stupid and people who hold it should be ashamed.
  11. billd91

    Spoilers What do casual fans get wrong about Star Wars?

    I think there's a pretty good argument to be made that the casuals understand one very important thing about Star Wars that the hardcore fans don't: the movies are an entertaining way to spend a couple hours at a time and aren't really anything more than that.
  12. billd91

    RPG Evolution: Weight, What?

    They did leave Bill at the entrance to Moria (he managed to flee successfully). And, yes, they did divide up Bill's load, but it is also explicit that they left things there that they though they could do without - particularly the cold weather stuff they had packed for the mountain passes. So...
  13. billd91

    Streaming services, which do you have or are you getting rid of?

    Looks like Disney is back-pedaling on the Kimmel suspension. Of course, they're saying it's because they've had fruitful discussion with Kimmel in the intervening days, but I think it's more likely that the immediate and vigorous boycott pressure has got them spooked.
  14. billd91

    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    And Black Lives Matter - which I see referred to fairly often on the interwebs. Brennan Lee Mulligan adds yet another BLM to the mix.
  15. billd91

    D&D 5E (2014) Durable feat

    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...
  16. billd91

    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    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...
  17. billd91

    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    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...
  18. billd91

    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    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...
  19. billd91

    King Kubrick: Ranking Stanley's Best Films

    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.
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