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I just picked up the two Forgotten Realms books for 5e.2024. The alt covers are stunning.

I hope not. Gay characters get killed way too often in too much media.

I don't think things have be raised to broken levels for a player to optimize the fun out of the game, particularly if different PCs tend to play differently. For example, if the scrappy fighter and rogue are enjoying the fight, maybe the wizard should hold off on their highest-level encounter...

That may be true, but I've found that much of this can be done without shifting rulesets as long as you follow some good GMing principles that can be applied to any game with mysteries to investigate (and probably should be). There's a lot of advice to this effect on theAlexandrian.net and not...

I would expect that to depend on exactly what you want the narrative elements to be and how far you're willing to intrude. You want the Boss Monster to last 6 or so rounds - then don't give it hit points. It has 6 "points" and one is expended per round of combat as long as the PCs land a telling...

Good point. The delve might be OK for complicated encounters either because of the NPCs/Monsters involved, because of the setting, or because of other weird conditions and setup. In defense of the delve format's use in 4e, that was kind of 4e's main mojo - focusing on the encounter and how to...

Yes, you could deteriorate down the condition track and that imposed an increasing penalty on attacks, defenses, and skill checks as you moved down the track until you got KOed. You usually got moved down the track for taking damage greater than your damage threshold which was based on your...

I don't have personal experience with it but my understanding is that Tales from the Loop de-emphasizes combat in favor of teens on bikes investigating weird science fiction mysteries.

Legendary Resistance may be a bit of a kludge but most of the solutions I'm seeing aren't really an improvement. Legendary Resistance as it sits now is easy to apply and ablative. As long as the DM is letting players know when it's invoked, they can set their expectations properly and grind down...

Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, meet Pot. I'm sure you have a lot in common.

Yes. It's pretty spot on as an analogy. And the people who do improv adventures would be like an improv jazz odyssey/jam session. Music teachers, mentors who share techniques, wahwah pedals, filters, custom pickups, whammy bars, fuzzboxes, everything else that helps a musician produce the music...

Yeah, not gonna do that because, quite frankly, one of the nice things going for it is the campaign setting already has an audience of fans out there. That's a positive network effect that will make it easier for any DM picking up the setting books to recruit enthusiastic and interested players...

But it's not just me involved in the decision. That game may be even more attuned to my preferences than 5e, but that might not be the case for my players. And 5e is close enough to my preferences that I'm willing to forego an edition even closer to my preferences if my players prefer 5e. So...

Well, present in more than just the Old Empires as well. There's a handful that's always been part of the FR's main setting.

When you're got an entertainment product that's meeting your needs and doing a reasonably good job of it and, more importantly, you like it, major innovation for the sake of innovation becomes overrated.

It does, in some languages. But even where variations on milliard exists, apparently "thousand millions" comes up in common usage and remains a correct notation. So the source of Ken Burnside's info and how it may have been translated is still relevant.

Maybe. But if the source of that figure was originally French (or one of several other European countries) where long scale numbers are a normal feature, 1,200 million would be correct notation rather than 1.2 (or even 1.200) billion. In long scale, you don't get to a billion until you've got a...

The problem could be where the source of the 1,200 million value originally came from that Ken Burnside included in his facebook post - because there are places on the globe where 1,200 million is NOT 1.2 billion. Long scale vs short scale numbers.

Probably not the best movie to take a blind date to if you want to have a second date.

Trans activist and Middlebury College athlete Lia Smith, 21, has died by suicide. https://www.them.us/story/lia-smith-middlebury-college-vermont-missing-cause-of-death