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Exploring new worlds. Trying new things. Interacting with the environment in weird ways. Seeing how creative people can be. The limitless potential of the medium that's weirdly hemmed in on all sides.

Yeah. Roll things ahead of time or make a spreadsheet to do it for you. You can also just not play it as a space trucker game. Lots of other ways to go. If you're going to dig into Classic Traveller, I'd suggest the original 1977 version. It's much better and more streamlined than anything that...

Though that would be a sweet monster ability.

He's not wrong. This is a post about tabletop RPGs.

Why would they? If the point of having a unique timer for each torch is because it's more "realistic" it then breaks that sense of "realism" if you have a monster attack one torch and somehow they all go out together.

It’s not speculation. I played in a game run with multiple timers and it lacked tension because of that. The players just had timers on their phones. Every X minutes someone would mark a torch and restart the timer. The light got attacked, that player would mark a torch and restart the timer. No...

Sure. And it’s 1/X as vulnerable with X torches burning. But I’m talking specifically about the timer running out and having multiple overlapping timers. It goes from tension inducing to busywork.

It messes with my sense of the world as a real place, but it’s explicitly a game element and the purpose is to push those “oh hell” moments of panic when the torch goes out. If you run multiple timers you effectively remove that, so might as well not both. It just becomes busywork with no teeth.

I'm sure someone's already done a parody of that as an adventure by now.

First. To arms! To arms! Someone has blasphemed against the Holy Game. To arms! Second. I should write a module about a dice game sweeping the land that’s really a front for a cult.

I keep meaning to listen to that. I wish it were one of his reviews. He knocks those out of the park.

Tell me you've never played or read either game without telling me you've never played or read either game. Woof.

That certainly matches my experience. Boring and serious? Nah. Sounds like torture. The only way to make D&D even minimally palatable is to make it gonzo and goofy.

Margaret Weis out here spitting stone-cold facts like Toon is more fun than D&D.

Not here. Not even ENWorld. Holy hell that is the dumbest thing I'm going to read all week. Maybe all year. You just cost me IQ points with how dumb that was.

I can think of a few people that applies to.

In book publishing it’s usually about 18 months between submission of manuscript and publication date.

We must be reading different threads. There's not much nuance surrounding the game I'm talking about. Outside discussions about That One Perfect Game, sure there's plenty of nuance.