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Most multi-beam/bolt/ray spells will do that well (if they hit) but a single casting of magic missile is one that won’t; it specifies that the bolts strike simultaneously. Assuming multiple bolts directed to the target, no single bolt in the volley drops the target to 0 hp. Either none do, or...

Their names are on the books! Probably not the 3.5 books, though. If you’re interested in the 3e-development era, you could look into the history of EN World. The archived pre-3e articles and interviews from Eric Noah’s site would be a good place to start. There’s plenty of other good stuff...

In my experience, fleeing enemies are usually dead enemies. It still happens from time to time, but not if they know and understand the PCs’ reputation. If these are meant to disincentivize fighting it might work, but I recommend incentives, instead. Or at least additionally. First of all...

That’s why a militia needs magical training. Even a small group of 10 sending a simultaneous magic missile volley will ruin an attacker’s day. Unless, of course, that attacker has the shield spell. Or is the Tarrasque.

Wanda doesn’t know any of that. As far as we know, HexVision never even told her that WhiteVision is still alive.

Is she, though? I don’t think we’ve been presented with any evidence that she intends to leave Vision dead. She already knows she can recreate a version of him. And there’s no innocent bystanders to get caught up in her hex the next time. I do think bringing the kids back is a higher priority...

Those warrants might exist, but I don’t think the relevant governmental agencies (SWORD or the FBI, probably?) currently have the means to enforce them. They probably are keeping an eye on her, though.

Seing as how this discussion has tapered off and seeing as how we probably have enough for a panel of judges to work with, I’m going to go ahead and push this developement into the next phase. Obviously, if anyone has anything further to add, you are welcome to continue doing so in this thread...

I don’t think Wanda has retired to heal at the end of WandaVision. I’m pretty sure she’s searching for a way to undo the undoing of her hex. Fortunately, the remote location removes the morally problematic element from her first hex. Unfortunately, there are plenty of other things that can...

The major difference being that in this episode, it didn’t work.

I liked how she didn’t know there were Terminator sequels because she was off-world at the time.

They did a good job of it with 4e Essentials. A few weaker feats became obsolete, but everything else could play together fine. And the class design philosophy of Essentials was very different from that of early 4e.

Pretty sure that’s exactly what the Watcher called out as the point of deviation.

In a game in which all PCs were animals: Party met Crow in the woods and Dog gave him something shiny in exchange for something or other. The shiny? The tag off of Dog’s collar. The bad news: Turns out later that Crow was the familiar of a witch living deep in the woods. The worse news: That...

The averaging, by the way, would keep the swinginess down in two ways: First, by reducing the impact of outlier scores, but also by keeping the overall total lower (to about a third), which means low scorers can remain competitively within reach of the higher scorers over the long run.

My preference would be average. Rounded up. The rounding would favor high outliers over low outliers, but I’m okay with that.

Another important consideration: The judges will almost certainly be scoring the previous week’s entries while the next is ongoing, so a public ranking will not be available at the start of each week. Mid-week might be a reasonable target, though. If the field isn’t too large.

So, each challenge would look something like: 0 = No significant presence. 1 = Present, but minimally significant. 2 = Present and significant. 3 = Present and exceptionally implemented. Ingredients used. For each ingredient: Creativity (0-3) Internal Relevance (0-3) Potential Relevance to PCs...

Of course, the issue of maintaining a contestant’s interest is one we need to tackle. Maybe a non-judging host who interacts with contestants? Asks questions about choices made? That sort of thing?

My thinking is that it can work with a field of contestants that can be of any size. Except that the judges still have to read all of the entries, so not too large. Theoretically, though, even just 2 contestants is enough. 4-8 would be much better, of course. I would bet we could round up 3...