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No, the fire dragon keeps a log of each gem encrusted in its hide. It's sort of like a balance sheet. I'd like to know if one can capitalize on the low Luck score. Otherwise, my merry band will be avoiding such creatures.

These are both questions of scale, illustrating how much progress the GM wants to award for the roll result. It seems that Baker uses "conflict" for simpler activities, and "task" for more complex ones.

Thought you were going to end this with . . . "definitely doesn't make noise if she doesn't want to." Anyway, I thought some shadows floated around whispering, "kill kill kill kill."

Zweihaender is excellent for this. I feel nefarious characters with palmed stilettoes all around me when I read the book.

The suggestions were a little more nuanced than that. The first was creating a world condition to solve a problem, the second was reacting to world conditions to solve a problem. The problem can vary in scale in both situations. To me, OP's question is closely related (even if not stated that...

After trying King's Fairy Tale, I'm not in a rush, or a walk, to see this. And I know that 4 mph can be maintained for at least 12 miles.

About the same as you do, but I cut myself off before I get to "area 12."

Hodor. Hodor, hodor hodor. Hodor hodor.

Level 2: you smell like a wet dog.

Your offspring always turn out to be goblins. Or worse: dragonborn warlocks. My immediate concern is that some players won't want to know that their PCs are suffering a curse without having done something to earn it. So you'll get push-back if it's actually harmful. A benign effect might be...

LotR is a specific work, yes. It has also inspired countless, similar works. I'd call the style of that group a genre. Maybe even "medieval fantasy." I'd be very surprised to see characters in the next WotC adventure refer to another character's "race." This points to all D&D being punk...

D&D isn't Victorian? Tell that to this guy's handlebar moustache: https://cdn.media.amplience.net/i/wizardsprod/players-handbook-2024-product-07?w=1920&fmt=auto Is that an Art Nouveau buckle I see? Anyway, D&D might not be explicitly steampunk, but it's a whole lot closer to that than its...

It seems that "medieval fantasy" no longer applies to D&D. It's more of a steampunk game, despite some of the art. Here's why: Default technology: the SRD offers PCs muskets, pistols, and airships. The Clarke rule: sufficiently advanced technology seems to be everywhere, given the number of...

I think a Decker is crying somewhere.

I'm stuck on the assumption that an investigator is supposed to be good in combat. And that a mystery requires initiative. Maybe I should avoid PF2 as well.

I think you're probably correct. Should: In my game, no. "Evil" is a label applied by propagandists, not something required by genetics. In all D&D, yes, since WotC's goal is to sell the most dead trees, and apparently killing sacred cows (currently) goes against that goal. (What alignment...

I have to respect (and expect) this. I hear WotC saying, "we're gonna stick to what we do, so smaller companies can do what they do." Or maybe WotC just thinks 6e is the best system out there.

I, for one, would like to keep up with the developments. And figure out where Gwaelin is.

You're trying to appease both of these groups at the same time? You'd have better luck trying to get Matt Colville to slow down a bit. But if you want to try something that lets you add or subtract rules until it's just Goldilocks, drop me a line.

So realistic nostalgic! You even get to watch as the player slowly adds up her bonuses and rolls her damage die separately, as if the thought of causing damage didn't even occur as she was rolling her attack die! What would be super-cool: the option to change the presentation from...