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Just finished Perry Rhodan #5, Twilight of the Gods. Perry Rhodan and Co get a brain upgrade from alien super science, evolving them and giving them mutant powers. Perry Rhodan gets a subtle hypnotic gaze. There’s no mention of what Reginald Bell gets. There’s a long side plot introducing four...

I did exactly that. The players lost their minds. They couldn’t comprehend it. They kept trying to figure out how they could charge and wipe them out. They glitched out because they assumed everything in the world was prepackaged as a level-appropriate and balanced combat encounter. They accused...

Check out the Dragonbane boxed set. It comes with a solo mode. It's well worth the money even if you don't run it solo. The box is a fantastic deal. Shadowdark also has a solo mod, Solodark. It's up on Kelsey's website.

You can also play "regular" games in solo mode with things like the Mythic GM Emulator. Word Mill Games The YouTube channel Me, Myself, and Die! is pretty good for learning about solo gaming with Mythic specifically. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtiBzkVoYrugJkrpW7_75Ag

A stray adopted us and had a litter of murder muffins in our house. We're beyond full for cats already. Free to a good home. Should be ready to adopt around the first week of November. Too young to be fixed yet. All friendly and used to people. Some boys, some girls. Near Portland, OR...

I think that covers every problem at every table ever. Well done.

Pretty sure it's the board. If there were a dedicated 4E forum, the likelihood of people who hate 4E intentionally crashing every 4E thread would be quite low. As an example, the dedicated 4E discord doesn't have that problem. Note how several of those are [+] threads. That's likely key to...

I will never understand the people who treat game rules as holy writ.

“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish sometimes.” —Doctor Who

Sorry, but no. This is one of those clear examples of dumb rules that should not be blindly followed. Like surviving swimming in lava without magic and a person filling a 5-foot square.

“Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” —Captain G. M. Gilbert, after the Nuremberg trials. I can think of no better definition of evil. Should be an interesting watch. Not sure about Crowe as Göring.

Yeah. It’s always been a ridiculous read to say it takes 1 hour of combat to interrupt a long rest. Yet another thing the designers got wildly wrong. See the OP again.

Pointless.

It's also how Dave Arneson ran games. You end the session in a dungeon and you'd have to make a roll to see how your retreat went as you fled the dungeon.

Yes, exactly. Regardless of what they choose to do, continue or rest, they will inevitably face "random" encounters. It's disguising the inevitability of a random encounter with pointless rolls. The choice doesn't matter.

That’s probably Beau, Marisha’s monk.

I see Taliesin hasn't worked on his Irish accent since the start of C2.

Yeah, you might as well not bother. There's no real choice there as it's not a risk of an encounter, it's a guarantee. It's a quantum ogre with extra steps. Just roll 1d8 for which hour of the rest the encounter happens. After the first encounter, roll your 1d8 again and if they're still resting...

They're separate issues. How the designers assumed people would play and how people actually played. The design of 5E is largely a massive rejection of 4E design with several elements from 4E "hidden" in 5E's design. 4E was an encounter-based minis skirmish game. Lots of people loved it, more...