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Knowing you need help is the first step to healing yourself.

And I doubt he would even think of it as gaining for himself at other people's expense. From everything I've seen, listened to, and read, virtually any gain anybody else could have gotten would have been at his expense in his mind. After all, he was TSR and TSR was him, right? EVERYTHING anybody...

Joyless? With Friar Tuck gleefully confronting Folcanet with "Welcome to Hell"?!? I think not.

Wait. There are posts in this thread that AREN'T hyperbole?!?

If a player is absent but we have enough of a quorum to play, the affected PC just kind of hangs out in the background - not really taking part in anything. For my 6 player group, if 1 or 2 are missing, they just carry on as if they're a 4-5 PC group until the player is present. There are times...

I think the nature of the individual task is getting kind of muddled here. There are some tasks where I think a group check would be appropriate, where treating things as a help action would be more appropriate, and some where neither really applies. Take the door opening issue. For one thing...

I've played some with MintMMs a while back when I was in high school and then mostly one-offs and board games because we lived farther apart. He passed away in 2016.

Well, we don't know how much a hassle the 18 months between the gate closing and the show's endings were. We also know that there were factions in the program that were in opposition, at least as far as methodology goes. So it's entirely possible that Dr. Kay's debacle in Hawkins enabled Dr...

I'm not yet a candidate for extra-large text, but I can sure say that the readability of the 5e.2024 rules was a nice perk of buying the new books over 5e.2014. I can understand an argument that doing a whole print run of large text rulebooks might be a tough sell with most game companies - but...

Not all conflicts and narratives are short term.

Having a player willing to push the envelope helps things happen - but some of those things aren't good in the long run. You've never played at a table where a player had a character do rash things that made things difficult for the rest of the group or the DM from time to time? Those players...

People contain multitudes. It's entirely possible to have fun during a session and yet regret some of the things that happened because of the headaches they cause for the overall campaign. And it's possible to have found a PC's antics amusing from one close-up perspective, but dumb from another...

Self defense, sure. But killing the whole lynch mob AND the whole village would be way beyond the pale of justified behavior. Mobs break up and scatter. Villages almost certainly have people living in them who have no idea what's going on. Killing the entire village is the act of a criminal...

Honestly, you could. You'd just have a line for your first attack, one for your second, then third, then fourth to incorporate the different bonuses.

I think I see it used too often for personal passion projects that are variations on other games, particularly D&D, that aren't really heartbreakers. If it's personal, mainly for themselves and the people they play with and not an attempt at breaking into the industry and distributing a game for...

If it works with the campaign, sure. If it doesn’t, we’ll see what we can salvage from the book.

In my case, do I have the book? Because that's my requirement as DM for introducing an option from a new book. If I don't have it, it's a no.

I dunno. The latter two are pretty common in Cyberpunk games I've witnessed or experienced. Attitude - there's usually plenty of it. Risking life and limb for a big score or takedown of someone on principle? Plenty of that too. And as far as Style over Substance - you can have style and still be...

For a lot of cases with a setting, it may be one that's been run with before - just with a new set of players for a new campaign. Background work... largely already done. One of the players in my group has run a series of campaigns over the last 20 years out of his own campaign setting. And yes...

In a tense confrontation like the Cuban Missile Crisis, being able to drop some extradimensional beasties on Soviet command and control could be pretty devastating. Trouble is, the Soviets would pretty much know where it was coming from since they definitely knew about the gate shenanigans in...