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I prefer absent player = absent PC, but if they want another player to play their PC I allow it, and they earn XP (and can die) as normal in that case.

Different sessions, different players. My Faerun Adventures alone has 3 main PC groups. Players move between groups, they miss sessions. PCs die or are retired, new PCs come in at half the level of the highest level PC. More specifics at 5e Campaigns & PC Groups

Eldritch Knight Fireball - Action Surge - Fireball.

I always use XP in my 5e D&D games, usually individual XP - I mostly GM sandbox games, where it just works better IMO. For a quest-based game I use group XP. I also like the 'skill ticks' in Dragonbane, which derive from BRP. I very much dislike levels handed out arbitrarily by the GM, and I...

A Fighter who can cast Blur & Fireball?

If it gave a flat AC typical of the best a level 1 Wizard gets from it, that would basically sort it. I suggest assume mage armour +2 DEX = 15, so Shield should give a flat AC 20. My son's level 15 Eldritch Knight would be Disappoint. :LOL:

The Rule of Law is narrow and constrained; always the forces of Chaos prey upon her borders...

I was just reading over old posts from January, and this line really stood out. Who would have guessed in January that a few months later WoTC actually would have gained a reputation for extra legal means eg sending stand-over men to threaten people they had a beef with? :(

They were pretty small, but not that small. City walls are expensive so the area within them tended to be cramped and heavily populated. 50,000 per square mile was not particularly high, they could get to 100,000 per square mile. At 50,000 that's 78 per acre. A moderate sized city of 5,000...

As far as solutions go, well IMCs I typically say that the combat rules are just for what happens on the battlemat. Long range shooting off-mat is likely to be handled differently.

I agree. Notably, the 1e AD&D 'dungeon' range was 210 feet, vs 210 yards outdoors. Gygax recognised an issue, at least to some extent. IMCs I use the 'dungeon' ranges outside too, works fine. 4e D&D I think uses 40 squares/200 feet, it's the only edition I know with realistic missile weapon...

There's a lot of debate about this. Medievalists seem to be swinging towards the view that the contemporary artistic depictions, which show direct fire at short range, are an accurate depiction of how longbows were actually used. In the past it was thought that archers used arcing shots with...

D&D missile weapon ranges have always been silly. They seem to be based on how far someone can get an arrow to fly, not on effective combat range for what are relatively slow moving projectiles. AIR 3e D&D was the worst, 4e D&D was a lot better.

Nothing to do with east-Asia really. Said was complaining about European depictions of the Near East & Middle East. The Orientalist tropes he complained about don't really figure in pop-culture depictions of east-Asia (although there were separate negative depictions of China in the 19th & early...

Korea definitely seems to be rising in cultural influence, there's a fast food place called K-Pop by my work. I think China was rising until Coronavirus. Japan seems stable, with Anime still huge, I think aided by a decline in Western genre fiction.

I'd note that Japan is much cooler than India in modern UK, too. I think defeated enemies often get a big coolness bump, if they fit a 'proud warrior race' stereotype and were hard to beat. French culture was huge in 19th century post-Napoleonic Wars Britain. The ancient Romans thought the Gauls...

It is striking that Japan especially generates much more interest than any other non-Western culture. Partly it's the strength of their cultural industry. Hong Kong cinema was popular too, whereas eg Thai or Vietnamese culture don't generate the same interest. Why Japan is seen as cool, and...

This wouldn't work IMC - as noted above, he'd be seen as a weakling and traitor by both sides. The most obvious tactic would be to fulfil his minimal feudal obligations to both sides, and otherwise stay out of it. Another obvious tactic is to throw his weight behind either the stronger side, or...

The main one I recall is Twilight Cleric Channel Divinity power gives every PC a bunch of temporary hp every round.

I'm fine with spending hit dice/healing surges in a SR. Or else recover some variable number of hp the way Dragonbane does it. LR should refresh everything to full - hp, spell slots etc.