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Why do you offer a save?

I mean, I know GMs used to be that way back in the day, but...if a bad roll or two is all it takes to wipe out months of investing in a character's story, actually engaging with the world, then what the hell are we doing? If it's that disposable, then it's better suited to a board game. It's...

So, with my 4 free hours of game time available per month, I have invested in this character, and rolling a 1 trying to scale the cliff causes her to die, because other people in the real world have done so. You would seriously rule it that way? Because if so, what a bloody waste of time it's...

True. My bad.

No chance someone who works at the prison gets drunk at the tavern and mentions it?

...are you being serious?

For sure. Some players like it when their characters fail a climbing check and then fall to their deaths.

13th Age has a similar "Fail Forward" philosophy: "...outside of battle, true failure tends to slow action down rather than move the action along. A more constructive way to interpret failure is as a near-success or event that happens to carry unwanted consequences or side effects. The character...

It's dumb there, too.

Agreed. It's really dumb to have the Blip, the most major event in human history happen, only to never really mention it again.

Hard disagree. I don't need all my superhero fare to be the same.

That's exactly what Snyder was going for...and what people hated. Too bad we never saw a Man of Steel 2. :/

Because then there's nothing to attack you with. Duh.

Do you just improv a lot?

Ok, so it IS on purpose then...you deliberately chose not to give him just one offensive cantrip to take advantage of his high CHA. A perfectly legitimate choice, for sure, but it supports my thesis that the only way in 5e to make a character lousy at combat is to do so deliberately.

Hawkeye Fisk has comic-book Fisk strength. DD: BA is toned down, though still strong. Having said that, characters' power levels in the MCU have varied wildly, and are in no way consistent.

What's a character who "has skills" instead of being good at combat in 5E? What example would that be? I'm honestly not sure how to make someone bad at combat in 5e unless it's on purpose...but even then that doesn't mean they get skills instead.

This is so sad...they had so many cool things for their rpg that were supposedly in the pipeline, and now I guess we'll never see them. To say nothing of my fantasy of seeing their IP cross over with the Dice Throne game...

Anyone think Claire Temple will join DD's army next season? Knight? Wing? Lopez?

Isn't Kate on the west coast doing recruiting with Kamala? ARE there any Avengers at this point? I am not sure there are...