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I wonder what the minor changes are that could fix it so that it is harder for commoners but doesn't really impact appropriately leveled adventurers. Resistance to non-magical attacks? x% chance of deflecting missile weapons when flying? Damage reduction? etc...

I'm wondering where morale rolls show up. The plots of a lot of westerns and gangster movies would be a lot different if the commoners would risk the death of some of them in order to save the rest.

I'm trying to decide if needing a lot of the same type of dice up front does the same. It wasn't a problem when I eventually needed a dozen d10s to play the version of VtM we were back in the day, but I wonder if needing that up front would have been a turn off in the same sense as needing...

"Most people who've had the same favorite movie, book, actor, cuisine, restaurant, ttrpg, character class, type of pet, sandwich, style of beer, theory of games, subject in school, vacation place, or etc... for any extended period of time, have likely only stuck with it because they're scared...

RE: Minions D&D stat blocks and combat mechanics provide a probabilistic model of combat. Like every model, there are strengths and weaknesses. And like almost every model it only extends so far. Even Newtonian physics breaks down at cases where you close in on relativistic and quantum...

The gas and trenches and machine guns and machine guns on planes feels like several steps too far for me for D&D. (Is Eberron "D&D" or its own thing on a D&D chassis? <- a me question for myself, not an overall judgement, of course it is D&D). I sometimes get the urge for it to go up to maybe...

I've found myself drawing on Vance's "Dying Earth" a lot lately,.the occasional veneered anachronism hasn't bothered me. If I was sold a campaign set in <pick some place that wouldn't have that> then it would seem really strange to me. And I can see why it would bother some folks in general.

I find it pretty hard to believe that some 300 year old super craftsman (Dwarf) hired by some 600.year old collector of things (Elf) couldn't come up with some spectacular display cases to show it off. But now as I type I wonder how much cooler than just glass cases in a room they would be...

I think I need a nap. I find myself wanting a set of Gordian knot traps that do bad things to whoever tries the classical solution.

Given the how sexual harassment in the work place was viewed back in the 70s, I'm not sure what it would have taken to be NSFW back then. Articles on being a woman in the work place in the 70s D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism Some things from Dragon magazine on being a woman...

This too does not narrow it down much.

I totally lost the thread of where this came from. But I had to go look it up the Dragon Magazine adventure that I thought I might have one. The adventure in issue 100 (August 1985) has both a museum restaurant and museum gift shop. Although, to be fair, the D&D adventure takes place in our...

It feels like Princess Bride would make my inspirational list. Maybe not for tons of actual mechanics, but I think I'd have to keep the rapier just for that, if nothing else.

RE: Town size and restaurants My grandma's family is from northern Wisconsin and I've gone up there on vacation pretty much every year from the early-70s to mid-80s and then starting again in the late-90s to now. In the mid-80s the town of ~1300 people we stay in didn't have any fast food...

I don't think I'd looked at the 1e DMG magic items in depth since I read Cugel Saga a decade or so ago. I totally had it in my head that the "Eyes of..." were glasses, but of course, following Vance's inspiration they're like contact lenses.

Off on a google tangent which led to... I had no idea that there was a patent fight (that had a movie about it) about the Hut's stuffed curst pizza in 1995. And I had forgotten the current White House denizens were in a commercial for Hut's stuffed crust when it came out...

Now I have the urge to go back and add articles of clothing to my tech timeline at: D&D General - Technology in D&D, the IRL Timeline, and Pausing It. Likely a boy's shoe, French or English, mid-17th Century (Bata Shoe museum) The museum notes: "The heel was not a European invention, instead...