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purposefully creating something conflates love and mind control is a hell of a mistake to make lol. also never got why "ill-intentions" should be a prerequisite for people being upset, shittier things have been done with good intentions.

time to drain the pool.

um... it's really not hard to frame this as failing 19 times and rolling a 20 the 20th time. the issue I find with this I can take 20 without having the need for a 20. like say I need a 13 to pass the DC of a skill check. if nothing crazy is happening I'm probably just gonna take 20 on the...

I like the idea of dungeon crawls, but if the "dungeon" is just monsters and treasure I'd probably get bored quick. exploring a labyrinthine place with interesting locaitons is fun, though. some of the best D&D experiences I've had happened this one time we had to go through a mountain range via...

yeah this whole trope has become largely frowned upon in recent times. even if the protagonist "learns a lesson" it's still at the expense of someone else. hell even Rick and Morty threw their hat into the ring and called love potions "rapey". can't make blazing saddles today either, amirite? 😉...

sure, and a lot of people didn't get that. there was a lot of "can I take 10 on survival" or "you can't take 10 on spot checks" going on back then, I can't be the only one who ran into this issue. with skill checks?

the comparison to tactics games did make some sense to me, and I guess any kind of grid based miniatures games is a fair comparison (3.5 is a good example lmao) I never really got the claims about how 4e is like WoW. mostly 'cause I never played it and just enjoyed 4e for what it was. but now...

oh boy, I missed this thread somehow. I'll only talk about stuff that somehow hasn't come up yet. also caveat: a lot of my grievances stem from misconceptions others had about the skill system, but I had these misconceptions, too, and when they're common enough it's basically good as RAW (like...

while I agree magazines aren't popular anymore, they're still very much around. I thought the same thing 10 years ago, but they're still readily available. it's just a lot of magazines that cover niche subjects have largely moved to the internet. general interest, gossip, and news magazines are...

like I said earlier they already did that with TopDeck back in the late 90's, and it only lasted 15 issues. tcg's were definitely more profitable back then and they still couldn't make it successful.

I mean maybe? I feel like if you took a video game magazine from today you'd get a rough idea of what you're asking. idk if outside advertisers would want to risk their money on something even more niche than video games.

I have early, pre-Paizo issues of Dragon that were more than happy to advertise games that weren't TSR related, as well as books and video games. I doubt WotC would do the same in a more competitive market.

I mean even if Aslan wasn't Jesus, it's still a pretty tame story in comparison (I know it has dark bits, but still). also LotR set itself up as this long complicated journey in world full of epic myth to defeat the ultimate evil, but Narnia was like "four kids go on an isekai adventure to...

I mean, Narnia always came off as kid friendly, I'm sure explicitly so (I mean friggin' Santa Claus makes a guest appearance). Lord of the Rings definitely appeals to, uh, "mature" readers, and I'm sure better played into the culture at that time for reasons, idk I'm sure someone better...

I did find it weird that one time Dungeon had a feature on King Bush II, Tyrant of the White Castle lmao EDIT: it should go without saying, but idk what this guy is on about re: Dragon.

considering how many magazines WotC went through for their card games 20 years ago I'm honestly mildly surprised Dragon and Dungeon lasted as long as they did. I feel like the entire point of White Dwarf is to sell Warhammer, which works 'cause it's like "look, look at all the pictures of...

aw crap, I forgot about Castlevania. like Dracula is the bbeg, he lives in a castle, and he has a bunch of lackeys that squabble constantly. also the party has a fighter, a wizard, and the powergamer who decided to use the half-vampire template and has a magical flying sword. also Dracula is his...

I mean okay, but I know he figured out the sun and the moon by having light move at an incredibly slow speed. or something like that. the point is he figured some stuff out, even if it was hand wavey.

yeah, that also promises a lot that the book doesn't deliver. I read it for a book report in like 7th grade, all I remember going in was: aliens come from mars, they have tripods, and laserbeams, and then they die of disease our earth diseases. all I got from the book was: same stuff, except...

okay I have to admit I read it when I was 12, but it was hard for me to understand what was going on. but also, everything I had learned about War of the Worlds via references and adaptations up to that point couldn't prepare me for the original material. even the cover of the book I read makes...