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"[Mechanic name here]: THREAT OR MENACE?'

I think it also helps that many of the talents include an element of choice (like the ability increase ones, or a bonus to attack rolls which lets you pick melee or ranged), and that they're pretty much all fundamentally "you get better at your job". 31/36 possible results on the Wizard table...

Not offered without any reservations about semantics, and aware that the term has been stretched a bit since Ben Robbins first articulated the concept, but I think we're stretching the term "West Marches" a bit there. West Marches refers to an open table campaign with variable attendees from...

Yeah, definitely got my attention!

If you lose the condescension and engage with a slightly more humble attitude, it would be more pleasant for everyone involved.

Some things that take out your light would hit all of them. Others, like a monster attacking a torch-bearer or throwing a bucket of water on him, would only affect one.

"Hippo, what is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, to drive the tour jeeps before you, and to hear the lamentations of the tourists."

I saw this happen live and in-person once. Thankfully I was on the other side of the enclosure from the people experiencing it... more viscerally.

I imagine Whizbang would probably have noticed if all the tension had been removed by their modification, so I suggested a possible explanation for why they're apparently not seeing the effect you speculated on.

Probably less so if Whizbang is consistently attacking the light with monsters and environmental hazards.

I favor Ulsio. Nice. Jorune is cool, but definitely has issues. Ben Laurence of Mazirian's Garden and Through Ultan's Door fame teased a really cool-looking OD&D hack version of Jorune on his blog over several articles a few years ago, but I don't know if he ever finished it. Sounded super...

Friday night I did get back for three rounds of machine triceps extensions (with drop sets), three of face pulls (pushing weight up a bit and drop setting the last set), and three of leg extensions (pushing weight up from last time I did them). Sunday was super busy but I snuck in for a quick...

What's your preferred gin for it? For my taste, choice of gin is critical for a martini.

Value is subjective. $1 is too much for me to pay for a product I have zero interest in or use for, unless maybe I can quickly and easily resell it for more. What's objective is that this is priced at the same price point, relative to a contemporaneous PH, as almost every D&D starter/intro box...

Yeah, Travis described it as a big locked closet with tons of shelves.

I did an apples to apples comparison (price and contents) of the onboarding boxed sets for new players available at five points in time (1981, 1983, 1991, 2014, now) vs the PH available at the same time. I get the distinction you're trying to draw, but it seemed like you were making an argument...

You objected to the new boxed starter set costing as much as a PH. I pointed out that a starter set costing as much as a PH and having different and more contents has been the case for as long as boxed starter sets have existed, with the 2014 starter set being exceptionally cheap, and the...

So is group gaming. You can still apply rules to give structure either way. Solitaire, for example, is a game you can lose.

Yup. Though if you're interested in running KotB, all the maps and goodies in the box might tempt you into the purchase.

I think it's important to recognize that "death spiral" mechanics usually don't GUARANTEE death. It's just that, as you've observed, if you start at 50% (for example) and any injury reduces your odds, that TENDS to result in a spiraling effect, where once you start losing the odds of...