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But I mean really, there’s no reason to be weird and dramatic about it. It was and is a useful rule to add drama, immediacy, and “reality” to a game. Just cause Todd’s mom said everyone has to go home at 9:00 cause it’s a school night, doesn’t mean everyone dies cause it was mid Goblin battle...

Going back to the OP at this point seems a bit of a derail, but I think is relevant because near as I can tell most posters here play 5e very differently, if they even play it. One can ask this question RAW, but since practically no one plays RAW even if they think they do, there just isn’t an...

No matter what happens, my game will not be affected.

With all due respect to anyone who played in the 70s and early 80s and still plays today, you guys are huge outliers. Adding the additional selector that you’re still so engaged with D&D that you spend considerable time on EnWorld talking about it makes you very exceptional people, but not at...

I don’t think it’s offensive to compliment a foreigner (to America) on how well they speak English…if you know when they started learning it, and it’s a wow You’re quick. It’s offensive to presume someone who is, for example, Hmong wasn’t born here and then compliment them on their English...

So I wondered about the difference between this thing in a fantasy game is a racist trope and I am the racist for thinking this bad thing in a fantasy game represents this real world people. It’s not actually hard to see a thing and think, whatever that creator’s intentions were, probably...

When they were created, those people knew exactly what they were doing and, “they didn’t think it was offensive“ is a gas, they didn’t for one second think about the people they were representing. It wasn’t offensive to people who bought the rice and syrup and loved the stereotypes. So all was...

I’d just like to point out that it’s entirely possible that the actors chosen for Rings of Power were the one’s the that the creators felt best fit the part once they discarded the idea everyone had to be white. The are reasons to cast people beyond “Tolkien said they ere white” “I‘ll get...

If this was actually what the title claimed, i’d be pretty interested. The front of the box is exciting, the back of the box is a huge letdown. This pretty much is standard for your kickstarters,quickstarters, I’m drawn in by the promise, horribly let down by the content. “Ooo, I want to run...

So after 58 pages, I’m gonna go with my OP idea, they’re just spells. It’s a thing you can do on your turn. Like whacking someone with an axe, or dropping a fireball. Psionics in 5e are always gonna be just another attack and not weird or special in some other way. It might be greatly themed...

I dunno man, seems weird you can’t even set up an encounter of archers on a cliff that can’t be hit melee. But, whatever. You’re inventing a big systemic thing to solve nothing. All the confounders by environment you’re imagining could just be tossed up at your convenience in any battle. Not...

I mean, maybe, but If that was true, all the old adventures should be showing as Adamantine sellers, and they’re not…so?

superman is the most boring and least interesting of all the superheroes.

Wow, that’s for real. https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/the-witcher-liam-hemsworth-henry-cavill-leaving-season-4-1235417724/ I thought you might be trolling. Liam’s way too pretty. Henry was neigh on perfect cast for the role, and played it well. Shame. Will be interesting to see how Liam...

I think the key is that while you can use prestidigitation make water in a goldfish bowl warm, or hot, that heat isn’t real and doesn’t transfer to other objects, especially living objects. A living creature can feel the heat, but not actually be warmed. You can’t cheat the inability to warm...

Whoppers, Lemonheads, and Milk Duds are awesome! Mounds, Necco, and Good n Plenty are probably the worst listed… However the absolute worst, I haven’t seen in a long while, and don’t know what they were called. They were like some kind of peanut butter saltwater taffy. Came in orange and...

The cost to get into the Radient Citadel is, “well, how much you got?”. It‘s a negotiation and the supplied ethics and motivations of the people the PCs must negotiate the fees with are to hit rich people harder than poor people. How could it be any more clear?

So today I discovered Hilma af Klimt who was doing modern abstract art a decade before Kandinsky. This obsession on who invented or created is pointless, who invented TTRPGs, who first did abstract representational art, what was the first punk rock band. Ideas are in the zeitgeist and they...

I don’t find the dichotomies all that useful, I answer yes to both sides on a lot of them. I like games, I like a lot of them, I‘ll play a lot of ways if it’s done well. I know there’s a lot of people around here with strong opinions on how things should be done, not one of them. I don’t like...

I know people like to crap on the SCAG, but it’s a pretty great and interesting book If you don’t already know everything about the Sword Coast. It may not be what DM book buyers wanted, but for what it’s advertised to be, a player facing book about the Sword Coast, it’s pretty great. Lots of...