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We do get a lot more of the O'Brien family as a whole when the family... grows for a while

That's fair. However... ...I feel like this is very much overstating the problem. Anecdotal evidence is all that any of us really have but I'd like to believe that this degree of adversarial DMing is becoming much more rare as the hobby has opened up and kind of exploded in the past decade. My...

Yes. To be a little less glib, I think it's a problem that cuts both ways; players can take these skills and take actions that call for these checks, but also DMs could stop ignoring certain skills, to say nothing of DMs that are punishing players for using the skills the game lets them take...

I've been in three championship matches, and the only one I lost was the only that was explicitly a D&D adventure. A lot the adventures I've written that I look back on the most fondly were all system-agnostic (and one set in the Supernatural RPG, of all things)

I can at least say a decade-plus for me, at this point. Doesn't quite make me feel as old as working with college students does, but it's up there

I mean, Rune has been doing this for what I believe can accurately be described as decades and I've already burned through enough ideas that I'm apparently double dipping into that well, at a certain point there's fewer places to take our suggestions than weird.

Of course I'm the only the one who picked up on the other double entendre you used for Flaming Spirits, humble 🏳️‍🌈

Honestly, I'd forgotten I'd already used it before. I try to remove used ingredients from my list from year to year, but I honestly must have just skipped over it when going through older tournaments. No, if we had ever done anything intentional with that ingredient in particular it would have...

Alright, @Fenris-77 and @GMMichael, that means it's time for us to get your match scheduled! Please share with us some time ranges that work well for you. Reminder that you do have 48 for this entry.

@AustinHolm and @humble minion - your third and final judgment has been posted, as is the announcement for the final winner of this match. Congratulations and/or condolences, as appropriate.

And it seems finally, for once, I get to the odd woman out. Huzzah!

Judgment for Round 2 Match 1: @AustinHolm vs. @humble minion Rules and Readability Both So Real it Burns (hereafter referred to as "Burns") and Forgotten Meat (hereafter "Meat") were turned in on time and under the 1500 word count limit. Both entries remains unedited, and all other tournament...

Every thing you're talking about here is exactly what I'm saying. It's (a) anecdotal and (b) entirely self-fulfilling. Optimizers go out into the wild and tell stories about how GMs never call for these skills (never mind that skill usage is entirely on the players, if you want your GM to call...

Yeah, a lot of this, especially the quote-unquote "low tier" skills are mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy. CharOpers decide which skills aren't exploitable which means fewer players take those skills which means fewer DMs generate circumstances for those skills to shine which means fewer players...

I mean, under ideal circumstances, the rankings would be: 1: Perception 2-Tie: Everything else Perception is too baked in as the superior skill in the system to unthrone, but everything else is extremely DM/campaign-dependent, and again, ideally that involves working into the game...

So, for those of you who are new, a quick breakdown of how judging will work from this point forward. Each judge will be posting their judgment individually and independently. We will not be reading each other's judgements as we do so. Each judge will be able to offer one vote towards...

We are in the home stretch now; there's less than twelve hours left in this match! Happy writing, DMs!

It's a great thing, then, that this is a historical film. As we've all found out about the world we live in, nobody ever learns from history. So we should be pretty safe.

If'n ye be amenable to video games fer yer entertainment purposes, ye could do quite a load worse than givin' Uncharted Waters: New Horizons a gander. Twas a Super Nintendo game set in the groups age of exploration, where ye could choose t' engage in discovery, trade, and a even wee bit o...

Russell Crowe keeping the goofy accent era of his career still rolling strong