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It doesn't though. Like, really, it doesn't. The Warlock's patron doesn't have to feature in the campaign at all. It could, or... not... I mean, if you've played BG3, compare how much Warlock Tav's patron features (barely at all, and optionally) to how much Wyll's does (a ton, and as a major...

You definitely wouldn't have to remove them to do what @BookTenTiger was suggesting. I don't think you'd even have to tone down Magic Missile. Maybe Fireball a little but if you just boosted martial ability to hit multiple targets maybe not even that, it'd just be relatively less powerful. That...

I know this is annoying, but sorry that's not the same thing as what you said! "Walking over social encounters" is not the same thing as "asking the king for the kingdom, being assigned a DC, and beating that DC, and then the kingdom is just handed over". Also, if their Diplomacy was...

Do they though? Have you ever actually seen it happen in the wild? Because I haven't ever seen that, despite having seen "asked to roll 6+ times for a single activity" many times. I've seen players ask to roll to do improbable things, usually jokingly, but the whole job of a DM is to determine...

Yeah and ironically I suspect they probably had blaster versions being designed, just the Draconic one wasn't. It's sad because the design was mostly pretty amazing and much more atmospheric than what we got Sorcerer-wise. The other silly thing was you had full access to armour but couldn't cast...

I'm not sure what point it makes though? I don't understand what you were trying to say with it, but it's usually brought up as this weird canard against resolving stuff with a single roll. Your previous example of a single social roll resolution seemed very reasonable (i.e. negotiation for...

I mean, you're misunderstanding and thus misrepresenting my position, ironically enough because you seem to be unable to see the nuance in it, which is probably on me. I just don't see soft avoidance of "direct harm" when you know it's going on and that you're supporting it as really any less...

Shadowheart is evil, unless the PC convinces her not to be, which whilst most players do manage it, isn't a given. Whether it's her fault she's evil is a more complicated question (given she was mindwiped), but she literally embraces evil unless the PC convinces her not to in BG3. But maybe...

Ooooh good example! Yes that. The trouble with that is, unless the DM is unusually reasonable and realistic, this often turns into an exercise of "roll until you fail" (in binary pass/fail systems). Like, it's one thing to assign a roll to a whole attempt to do a certain, important, meaningful...

Almost certainly. It would be a huge difference though and would feed through to videogames too. Without miraculous healing and so on being a power that belongs to a combat-capable guy in heavy armour and with a shield, and further something you can use in combat, I think we'd see very...

I could see having that be a roll, but it'd have to be a very, very "zoomed out" game in terms of time and what was going on. Like if the PCs were say, a cabal of (evil?) wizards manipulating a kingdom, and an action could be something that took months, "roll to blackmail the baron" might well...

I don't think you always need a detailed explanation of action, but you do likely need some kind of vague explanation of action to avoid the "I wouldn't do that" issues noted. I can't think of a game that does it as the OP describes either. But one-roll isn't uncommon and kind of similar...

I don't think anyone, least of all me, is saying Lovecraft wasn't an inspiration for elements of the Chaos gods, particularly the appearance of chaos mutations and so on. What I'm saying is that the apparent specific complaint re: CoC was that the Mythos entities were behind everything (which is...

But 40K doesn't have that lol. I mean, plenty of reasons to dislike 40K, but seriously the Ruinous Powers are not, in fact, behind everything, indeed, that's kind of the greatest lie they (and the Imperium of Man) ever told, which is to claim that they are.

The only 1980s boardgame or wargame I've played in the last few years was HeroQuest. It honestly didn't feel great to me despite minor updates (it was the recent re-release). Still it was more fun than Descent or Frosthaven (a very, very low bar for me lol). As others have said - would play is...

I think this is kind of funny, because you appear superficially to know so little about digital animation that you can't even describe how they'd be using beyond "Well maybe they use ChatGPT instead of Googling stuff!" and like, yeah, maybe. Last time I had an argument like this it was about...

I mean, if you're giving a Sorcerer-King a redemption arc, I think it's fair to say you've gone too far or missed the point lol. This is a guy who is described as literally someone who and I quote "kills anyone who annoys him". I don't think you can have a legit redemption arc if you do that...

I'm not sure how that's going to be that different from Nazgul Jr, unless we're making an awful lot of assumptions about Nazgul Jr. basically being some kind of mercenary or something, which wasn't what I was assuming (I was actually also assuming raised in a cult or some kind). As for "no-one...