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Any village idiot who grew up within a fortnight's walk of a troll den has been told time and time again by their parents and village elders to use fire (maybe not acid, but definitely fire) to fight trolls, regardless of any skills they may or may not be trained in. It is not metagaming to...

What do you think the hills are made of? Only two. The hard part is getting them in there. Or getting them back out again, depending on your perspective. Racial ASIs (even penalties and mental bonuses/penalties) for fantasy races make sense; the one defining characteristic that all "fantasy...

I'm accustomed to modern D&D style, but I want to adopt a hybrid individual-phase system where 1) individual initiative is rolled each round, 2) actions are declared in reverse initiative order, 3) actions are resolved within each phase (talking, moving, attacks, spells) in initiative order. I'm...

As a variant of Lanefan's #8, the new characters have to be "legacy characters" with a clear connection to the old, dead PCs-- but the legacy characters areall not for the players' own original PC, but for a different player's.

I have a very strong preference for games that attempt to simulate an in-game reality, games where the rules of the game are generally consistent and generally reflect a consistent universe and the physical/magical forces therein. You know... what some would consider the exact opposite of your...

Got a whole bunch of ones that are political and/or religious (especially and) that I'm obviously not even going to hint at here. Just establishing a baseline for my personality. D&D alignment is incoherent garbage and the only thing that can fix it is to discard it. All nine alignments as...

I was coming here to say Rogues in the House.

I keep a list of games I want to run. There are a handful of ideas always on that list-- Super Mario Bros isekai, Street Fighter anything, Spelljammer sandbox, MHR eXiles-- and I've usually got a few more that I'm dying to run, like D&D in a Groundhog Day loop or Terminator RPG in LA in the...

First movie I ever seen in the movie theater was A Nightmare on Elm Street. My parents' version of the "birds and the bees" talk involved a large (and sticky) pile of VHS tapes.

On the other hand, over the past thirty years of my life, I have played with far far more people that I'd rather punch in the mouth than have sex with, especially with everyone else at the table watching. Break out the battle axes, those numbers are a little closer but I'd still rather do...

I'll give up my gaming consoles, literally, when Nintendo starts publishing their first-party titles on PC.

I've already said as much in this very thread, but as much as tomato ketchup deserves more respect as a sauce and sauce additive... banana ketchup is superior in every possible way, and some impossible ones.

Pretty solid PG-13 (except for language) when I'm running, though I will lean into some "soft R" territory based on what players choose to pay attention to. I'm capable of diving deep into Robocop and Hellraiser territory if I'm 100% certain that 100% of my players are 100% down for it, but if...

Warlock 4 (fey/tome), rogue 2, bard 4 (lore). As close as you can get to a one-man adventuring party and is compatible with just about every combination of race and background. I tend to favor gith for aesthetic (think a young Kate Mulgrew as the sexy gremlin from Gremlins 2) reasons and medium...

"If the name 'Ducky' does not strike sufficient fear into your hearts, I have done you a grave disservice by allowing you to know me thus. My name is Ibrahim Alexander Makmendie Drakul MacDuck of the Clan MacDuck, known as the Fireangel and known today as Vacuum Breather, bairn of Samus the...

Probably already been said a million times already, but it's this. The problem is that a well-played Wizard-- a Wizard that plays to a Wizard's strengths-- doesn't overcome challenges, he bypasses them. A Wizard's primary class feature is his collection of specific "i win" buttons and a Wizard's...

That's the bitter irony of convincing your entire customer base that you're selling them the greatest product ever made: you make it very difficult to sell them anything else. This is the biggest thing that bit them in the ass moving from Three to Four, including their misguided marketing, and...

Super Arts, by whatever title they're called in a given game, make every game they're in worse to play. They are, in fact, the only facet of fighting games that has been getting progressively worse, while every other part of them has been getting better for years.

Currently watching The Longest Promise, which also stars one of the leads from The Untamed in a very different role. Word of Honor, Who Rules the World, Ashes of Love... all on Netflix and I haven't scratched the surface of either their whole selection or the ones I've already marked for My...

The output of fantasy television from China in the past few years has been breathtaking and most Chinese fantasy is more "D&D" than anything that's ever had the D&D logo on it, even including the 80s cartoon and the recent movie. Some things are subjective preferences, and some things are...