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I actually do buy all my dice with matching colors by side count. It's fast and convenient when you put aside the dice superstitions. I have a couple sets of D20s, but I do roll identical dice when I have advantage.

New shrubs maturing. Orange with a champagne vinegar, ginger peach with a vinegar blend and plumcot with white wine vinegar.

As always I dread to discuss immersion, but this whole thing feels like a diversion from arguing that player and character decision making should be aligned. It seems to me that the desirable thing is that players and characters share decision making incentives, information (or at least have...

Well that point I'm much more sympathetic to, I'm just not persuaded a substitute activity is acceptable. I want to play the "read these tomes before play starts" game and I want to find people who also like that kind of thing. No one is made better off by throwing someone not interested in the...

This is a terrible take. I'm open to a set of RPG people who really want to be doing something more explicitly improv-y or generative, but that doesn't make the original activity inappropriate. It's one thing to look up and see a bunch of theatre kids in my hobby, it's quite another for them to...

Technically related, I just got a directional freezing rig set up to make clear rocks. Excited to build up a stockpile.

Oh I missed this! Just out of curiosity, looking at Paritor for the Champion, is there a circumstance I'm not thinking of where there's a difference between a "+1 bonus to attacks vs." and "treat AC as 1 lower" matters? That seemed strangely academic when I first read it.

I'm sure you're the foremost expert on your opinion, but I sort of assumed you were making a general claim about the structure of RPGs. If that wasn't your point and you were simply relating your perception of them, then obviously I have no grounds.

Oh I don't agree. The GM does not have a comparable role to a player in a conventional game, certainly not in trad play. If the GM is comparable to anything in bridge, it's the cards; they're a human filling in for the state of the game. Generally though, I don't think a lot of people play RPGs...

Point of order: are these metacurrencies? They look more like standard class resources at a glance. Characters seem as aware of them and able to decide to use them as players do.

Am I? I'm mostly concerned with players being able to know/do things without being at the mercy of the dice or the GM, and being able to make impactful decisions to achieve their goals. This requires impartial and trustworthy mechanics and that's most easily achieved by laying out a detailed set...

My deeply misguided parents thought my voracious fantasy habit was a waste of potential in middle school, and demanded I start reading classics, for some reason starting with Moby Dick. I was not, at age 11, ready for Melville, had a very bad time, and stopped sleeping so I could secretly read...

Well, that's the problem of sim in a nutshell. The violations are obvious, the constituents are not, and sharing those violations doesn't seem to mean sharing those constituents. I understand the urge to suggest is not a thing, because I'm not sure it's one thing.

Oh I've read it. I imagine I'd have been a big fan if the timing worked out.

I really miss the cottage industry around extrapolating setting from system. Once upon a time I thought that was where design was going, that we'd settle on proposing settings to reify systems and making systemic changes to produce new settings. I figured a big D&D update paired with a...

John Wick really is a perfect example of how high hit points function without the vague luck/skill explanation. You just get hit a lot and don't die.

I've always posited this as either a system or setting failure, and never been particularly sympathetic to claims this situation can somehow live outside the rules. You can only whine about fighters jumping off cliffs if you're proposing a change; otherwise you should be preparing for cliff...

I've spent some time trying to get to grips with the hidden design principles actually at play here. Mostly I think it comes down to "don't mess with forward causality of decision->action->resolution" and "don't separate character/player resources." This thread has me considering another...