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I like this system. I also like milestone. One suggestion I'd seen here years back was that for the gold to count as XP, it has to be spent, usually frivolously. The entire reason being that that's what kept the Conan/Grey Mouser etc 'feel' - yes, they'd get rich, but they'd piss it all away...

Actually, I'd push back on the idea a thieves' guild is all thieves. Maybe some are, but I dare say successful thieves guilds have plenty of diverse classes and races. They even addressed this back in the 2e book for Complete Book of Thieves. The guild is for getting rich - you absolutely...

I don't know that I agree everyone should have a class. I do agree that AD&D was lousy with everyone seeming to have a class. What I liked was, in the old Grey Book Forgotten Realms, they break down the population of Shadowdale. In the breakdown, some people had classes, but more often...

My old GM ran this as a prologue to a non-Barovia horror D&D campaign. The PCs were orphans at the orphanage. We all were the Losers like in It. There were a brother and sister NPC - the only siblings. Bullies challenged us to enter the Wycker House. It was horrible and haunted and no one...

I like this. I feel like there's a lot of ... feelings.. about Gygaxian dungeoncrawling, but I feel this is something that seemed to have come up in play in those games, which caused Gygax to get more clever and create new issues, which caused the players to get more clever, etc. Adversarial...

That gave me an idea for a 'fun' gas trap. A gas trap in two stages: stage one gets fired off and exposes the party. Nothing happens. Wow, that could've been bad, wonder what that was all about. A little further on, someone triggers stage two of the gas: something that sets off some weird...

Y'know... it never clicked for me, until this conversation, the time that Supes takes in this scene before dealing with Zod. Even going through the pretend-surrender, taking the hand... this is some Snyder crap right here but with nostalgia and a heroic upswell, we forget this is Superman...

This whole movie... what could've been. I always love going back and listening to Kevin Smith tell this story on An Evening with Kevin Smith. What could go wrong on a movie where the writing was being guided by a man who started out as Barbara Streisand's hairdresser? I think the three rules...

Maybe we should go back to first edition Rangers? Bonus damage against 'giant' type monsters (+1 hp/level, with no cap) - maybe even expand that to Beasts? Spells? When they get them, they're limited to up to 3rd level druid spells and 2nd level mage spells.

I'm celebrating my twenty-seventh anniversary of turning 23.

One thing I had discovered, decades before I ever was introduced to Traveller and its character creation was a great product by the dear, missed Jennell Jacquays, Central Casting: Heroes of Legend (1988 - https://www.amazon.com/Central-Casting-Heroes-Paul-Jaquays/dp/0922335001) This had so many...

Don't forget Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. I'd absolutely play him in a campaign

Here comes my semi-atomic take: Have more subclasses that are wildly different from each other - the entire point being to absolutely minimize the people only taking a class for 'dip' levels. I feel, from my decades of experiences, that if you do that, you're killing something that has always...

I wonder if any of that is related to the way I remember Skills and Powers being percieved back in the day. The way I remember it, generally people might have found it novel, but, anecdotally, people were like 'If you want to do that, go play GURPS'.

Agreed. During my Gencon years, and from years of listening to Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, it's generally been my experience that a lot of game designers generally like each other and find enjoyment out of mechanics, settings and ideas that their peers come up with.

Exactly this. You can't say Paizo or someone wouldn't ABSOLUTELY love to have a Pathfinder movie, or tv show. I am absolutely sure Evil Genius was absolutely drooling to get a financial jump with Rebel Moon. They won't reach Hasbro/Wizards levels, but it would definitely get those numbers up...

Well, a quick google of actions between attacks brings up Tavern Brawler, it SPECIFICALLY says you insert the bonus Grapple because it's triggered on the hit. Shield Master doesn't have the clause of causing the shove during the attack action. Movement is SPECIFICALLY and literally spelled out...

But Attack is an action. Extra Attack isn't just two attacks, it's two attacks as one Action. It's the same reason it matters what order you cast bonus spells in. If you cast a Bonus Action spell, the ONLY spell you can cast after than is a cantrip with a 1 Action cast time.