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Keeping track of supplies/gear has (and probably still does) had implications for game balance - for the inter-PC balance sticklers. Back in 3e, one of the notable reasons wizards got a perceived increase in power was the simplification of rules that limited them in prior editions - including...

There rarely seems to be room to put on the full text of an ability, particularly with a paper sheet. So I put down the name of the ability and the page number for a quick reference.

Heck, no. I want my integrated Marvel Universe.

He's just in a house with a newborn, he's not in a delivery ward at a hospital. Besides, you think a guy with tons of energy and executive function thanks to his super-soldier formula can't keep a house clean?

I think @Li Shenron has a point in that it doesn't get you much for binary checks. But Brennan does use a lot of graded DCs and variable levels of success for d20 tests - at least ones that aren't trying to hit in combat where results are graded by a separate random generation (damage rolls). So...

I've been tempted to try adding a modifier of +-1d4 for certain circumstances that would be separate from advantage/disadvantage - kind of a 5e-style version of the DM's Best Friend from 3e (+2/-2 modifier). I generally like advantage/disadvantage, including their ability to negate each other...

In the schools when I was a kid, this was virtually absent. Maybe an occasional story about Hiawatha, but in white American culture, the mythology was virtually all about Classical (Greek, Roman, Egyptian) or Northern European (Norse, Beowulf) in the 1970s. In other words, the stuff oriented...

I like games based in history, particularly World War II. So Call of Duty: World at War was right up my alley for video games, and Advanced Squad Leader (not that I get many chances to play) for board games. For other historical-era-oriented games I do like Call of Cthulhu, Republic of Rome...

Maybe? But leaving food at the end of an uncleared driveway is a lot different from leaving it at someone's doorstep or porch. Even with those instructions, I'd be concerned about leaving a pizza on a snowbank at the end of a drive.

I see some people have a pretty high opinion of themselves - or at least lower opinions of other people and viewpoints. Frustratingly enough for me to obliquely refer to it here.

That was the 5e.2014 rules. The 5e.2024 has removed the incorporeal part of that rule.

Not just preventing PC abuse. Think of how much trouble a DM can cause with incorporeal undead occupying walls or floors and attacking from a largely unassailable location.

When I first encountered it? No idea - it's always been in the environment around me in some ways. But we definitely encountered it in elementary school. Various stories would be in our reading instructing texts.

She may not be wrong in her assessment of continual governmental attempts to reconstruct the program, but her solution comes from her being broken by her experiences. I think that puts her on a path to become a tertiary villain behind Vecna and Dr. Kay. And I think that's kind of sad, in a...

It's entirely possible to have various rituals, even some teasing, when it comes to PC death and not be a "Killer DM". Lighting a character sheet on fire in a public game may be a bit much (I keep my character sheets even from one-shots at conventions as records of the games I've played), but...

The first GM I had for the game described the threat symbol as soccer balls and advantage symbols goalies catching the balls. And that actually did make them easier to pair off when reviewing dice results.

Since there's a teaser trailer for it, that would be an enormous failure to fire Chekhov's Gun. That baby's gonna have some significance - you can count on it.

I prefer rolling in general. I like to have my character revealed to me - or at least certain aspects of the character - so then I can see what I can make of them. For other pro-rolling arguments, I do have a couple: 1) The stat values are independent variables. One isn't higher because one is...

Oh, I've been... maybe not exactly there... but in a similar neighborhood. Sounds like she's having a pretty rough time of it. I don't want to just say "It gets better" because it's still pretty tough to get through. But assuming her immune system isn't compromised by something else (always a...