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At their basic level, hit points act as a waypoint between perfect health and down (giving you an opportunity to decide to retreat, go defensive, move resources, etc.). There isn't a specific need for any other battle conditions (like wound levels) having to be directly tied to that scale. Hit...

The goalposts have been dragged around this thread since the beginning. Of course, the initial premise isn't well defined, so it is pretty much no man's land. Rapiers are concurrent with or precede other products listed in the equipment lists, were used on battlefields (and the only D&D game...

So what's the General Sherman, a bulldozer?

What if it was a true Scotsman? And what if he has a pointy (metal) stick?

Now this was actually a thing in D&D. Back in 2nd edition where I mentioned they introduced rapiers and cutlasses (and stone/bone weapons and belaying pins and...) they had this issue. Players got ahold of The Complete Fighters guide and made up pirate and swashbuckler and savage kit characters...

I'm not sure what you mean or how it relates to what I said. Can you elaborate and explain your position?

That's literally what I said.

It is. If you want a true reality simulator, I would think a world with dragons would invent their own new weapons appropriate to the task Right, but including something that allows emulating the quintessential fantasy story in a fantasy game is hardly out of bounds for the game. This is a...

For reference. I always thought of it as 1) to cut off the 'no, he's a Maiar!' response, "fine. but then he's a Maiar cosplaying as a Xth-level wizard," and 2) he's playing a spell-point variant of the game*, where he could be 7th or 8th level but still cast more than a dozen 3rd level spells...

I suspect the point is that the Monk, overall (throughout editions) is a dog's breakfast of tropes about martial artists. Also that it is still wedded to a version of that concept dreamed up by Brian Blume in 1975 with a lot of celestial cattle-ness about it that it can't shake. To the former...

It is possible that they waited to decide who the Mule would be until later on (either to be topical, to avoid leeks, to make it impossible to accurately guess, or just because they wanted not to be able to telegraph it). In that case, contradicting information would be natural and is just...

I think this is a non sequitur, in that that's not what AIViking stated. There some significant ground between "our ancestors have been killing everything in their path with stone-age weapon" and "Stone age hunters did not go toe to toe with massive predators." Few if any groups ever hunted*...

Historically they were at least worn in mass combat as the sidearm a lot more often than commonly depicted. They were serious weapons, and are deadly. They are not smallswords or modern fencing equipment. Note also that the common spear (decidedly a weapon of war) and falchions (not generally...

Oh definitely. Nothing says 'just read the Silmarillion and thinks you're the first kid to do so' like going on the internet and thinking you are going to tell the other nerds what it really says.

Sure, why not? Why, what sword do you normally use to fight dragons in your day-to-day life? Seriously though, a rapier was added so that people could live out their 3 Musketeers/Inigo Montoya/Zorro (maybe Puss in Boots? now also Lara Raith?) fantasies. ... Just like every other fantasy trope...

There are bard classes built for OSRIC and Labyrinth Lord dotting Dragonsfoot. I won't link them because they mostly link to sites whose security I cannot vouch for. By all accounts, they seem to be the same class, just adjusted for the differences Osric and LL have from 1E. As for making it...

I remember that one (note: I haven't seen ToS in since the 80s)! The guy's hand getting crushed in the door and revealing that he's a robot. Reading the wikipedia synopsis, yeah, definitely the polar opposite.

But at the point when 'Thomas' Riker was reconstituted, the Federation considered them both to be William Thomas Riker, and the writers explicitly indicate that the differences in personality are that 'Thomas' is displaying the personality Riker had that many years ago. Later in DS9, he does...

I'm not seeing the difference. At the point of divergence, they were both Riker, not just one or the other we deem to have been 'the real' one.

Star Trek seems to be firmly wedded to the notion that you are your memories, personality, hopes&dreams, etc. and that an exact copy of you that happens to have your memories for all intents and purposes is you. From replacement O'brien to replacement Harry Kim to how transporters work to...