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The Glashtyn: A text consistency problem: Are the preferred targets “young beautiful”. “young lonely”, or simply “young” women? Each descriptions suggests different motivations: Targeting beauty because of jealousy. Targeting the lonely suggests an opportunistic but cowardly predator. The...

While (I presume) historically accurate, the gender specificity could be removed without destroying the essential creature. Then you could add a sidebar that provides a historical note. I think that would remove most of the problems with this writeup, while still providing historical accuracy...

So … we should be careful about a terminology shift to “malevolent“. That means “having or showing a wish to do evil to others”. As we are (essentially) having a discussion of the meaning of “evil”, we can’t use “malevolent“ as having a definite meaning. TomB

Not everyone agrees (or agreed) with this. Hence, arguments over whether using summon monster to summon evil monsters was an evil act. TomB

The thing about tags … in 3.5, there was (mostly) the sense that they had not just their defined interactions ( cold does double damage against vulnerable to cold) but also that they were descriptive (cold means the spell actually was cold). I say mostly, because not rarely people also had a...

Not everyone was killed. At least (the remaining “true”) good clerics were whisked away to safety. And the society wasn’t good anymore. It had been taken over by hubris, and had other problems. The high priest‘s ultimate sin was to make demands to their god. TomB

Re: Animated objects vs animated dead. Aren’t there differences? In 3.E, animated dead are healed by negative energy, and lose any material based damage reduction. Animated objects retain their material damage reduction and can be repaired. TomB

Re: falls being instantaneous. I would think that actions mid-fall are possible. Trying to grab a small item lodged in the nearby wall. Making a charge attack near the bottom (while still having falling damage at the end). I’m thinking “instantaneous” is only meant to say that no game time is...

I’m thinking there is a bit of overlapping function. Looking back to 3.5e, a fighter could get extra HP with the toughness feat. Or by putting more points on Con. Which ought to have meant dropping a fighter’s base HP to d8. Or, the base fighter should have d8 base and receive improved...

On second though … there are lots of strength and mass based martial artists. With training that emphasizes toughness and endurance. I’m thinking a pure martial artist ought to be a kind of fighter, with monk reserved for a mystic warrior. TomB

Could it be the difference between a “brute” strength and mass based, armored, martial weapon wielding fighter and the more agile, technique based, unarmed or lightly armed, un-armed or lightly armed fighter? Also, rogues (ninjas, at least) have excruciating martial training. Climbing; holding...

He seems to have been behind a push into movies. I found a little more information here: https://www.ign.com/articles/hasbro-ceo-brian-goldner-dies-transformers

The title says it all. See: Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner has died I'm thinking this will appear as a news item, but I haven’t seen one yet. Thx! Tom Bitonti

Though ... folks can forget or may have never been aware of what a game is like when grids are erased, or when more simultaneous action resolution is used. There is a very big difference! I built a small gaming board using foamcore, flock, and plaster rocks, painted, and with plastic trees...

l found the first two episodes to be good. High production values. Good performances. The beginnings of a very large tale. I suspect a shift in the third episode … so the values might not be maintained. And we will have to see if the larger story fulfills the initial promise. TomB

To follow up: Two kinds of failure can occur. These result from a core system features: Fun is obtained, for the most part, by being successful. Success in turn depends on a combination of character effectiveness and player skill. Character effectiveness is measured against the game’s...

Hmm, I‘m considering some confounding issues. These are from 3/3.5E. Feats that added background to a character (my character grew up on a fishing boat; he has skill focus swimming), which take away combat focused feats. The consequence is that effectiveness and background are mutually...

Those match my calculations: { 4 } 10 { 3 } { 1 } 360 { 2 } { 2 } ((10 x 9) / 2) x ((4 x 3) / 2) : 270 { 2 } { 1 } { 1 } (10 x 9 x 8) x (((4 x 3 / 2 ) x 2) / 2) : 4320 { 1 } { 1 } { 1 } { 1 } 10 x 9 x 8 x 7 : 5040 TomB

Another problem .. with four numbers, double doubles are possible (2244), (1177), etc. (Obscure note: This problem of double doubles feels related to interesting things that happen with rotations in 4 dimensions, where two independent rotation axis are possible.) TomB

How about … O Mammon, your gold is ready. As you are appreciating an accurate accounting, so as to know you are not being cheated, and that the dwarves can be shown to be scrupulous in fulfilling their contracts, the official counter has begun counting the delivery. This is of course being...