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As much as I’d like to let my joke lie, the half of me that wasn’t really joking insists on elaboration: My experience as a DM made me a far better supervisor (and vise versa). And without alignments, how would I ever be able to describe which version of evil my bosses were? As for Lord of the...

If you are implying that D&D and Lord of the Rings lack real world applicability, you must certainly have a far different definition of “real world applicability” than I!

That didn’t stop them from using machine guns and Stark weaponry in Iron Man. But maybe that was a franchised branch? Of course it could just be as simple as this: where the various films differ in genre, the rules of the MCU differ in minor ways to reflect it. This would also explain the...

Surely if the movement is part of someone else’s reaction, it has to be extra! (But I don’t think that’s right. The relevant line from Fall Back: “As part of its action, your attacker can move 5 feet towards you.” That must mean the bonus action Press the Attack, since that is what triggers...

Fair enough. Let me rephrase: I think it must be extra movement, because there’s no reason to include it in the description otherwise; if you have movement left, you can move closer anyway the description says it is part of the attacker’s [presumably bonus] action. If the intent is that the 5 ft...

I think it must be extra movement, because there’s no reason to include it in the description otherwise; if you have movement left, you can move closer anyway.

It’s the same suit we’ve seen in full in the trailer, but I guess that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s Tom Holland.

These days, yes. A decade ago, not so much.

I don’t think that’s really how studios work, though. Generally, more money invested means more studio interference. There’s a reason most sequels feel tonally entirely different than (or like hollow imitations of) the original. It’s a rare director who has had enough success to have carte...

I once ran a game with two NPC scouts named Matt and Locke.

Tell that to my halfling, Hunglo Bigguns!

I think, in this movie, they’re going to be counting on the audience bringing expectations about these villains into it with them (how else could they do so many?). Introducing new villains would undercut that.

Ah, but the question is: Do most players stop playing by level 10 because higher levels are never well-supported, or do WotC never support high-level play well because most players stop by then? The answer is probably Yes.

I guess, strictly speaking, the character using this ability is probably a creature, and therefore will also be stopped if they succeed on their own check.

So, if you have two characters succeed with this ability, do they cancel each other out? Or do they both stop one at a time?

Pretty sure prestidigitation only says it “warms” something for up to an hour. On the other hand, it can instantly ignite a small campfire. Taken together, those seem to imply prestidigitation cannot sustain enough heat long enough to bring water to a boil.

I don’t think this is inconsistent with what I was talking about, but I realize I could have been clearer. I wasn’t talking about how E6 changes the way the world views the characters (although, if I was, that still would say nothing about their mortality). I was saying that E6 changes how the...

To be fair, though: “That is actually a myth pushed by many movies and the like” is a pretty good definition of D&D.

Precisely this. But I would also add that part of what made E6 what it was is a redefinition of what “epic” means to the game-world. Teleport? Plane Shift? Not possible. Greater Invisibility? Nope. The pinnacle of magical achievement in the world for mere mortals is the fly or fireball spell...

Or in this thread, for folk who don’t feel like going off-site.