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If a task can be tried again and again until it succeeds without any costs or consequences - don't let them roll, just let them succeed and be done with it. I usually let them reroll, but each attempt costs time and time matters in most of my games. There are also other consequences for...

That or just some sort of connection between the narration and the mechanics. When a paladin multiclasses into a warlock, there should be story implications by that and not just done for the crazy build the player hopes for. No, that would be too much - although I enjoy finding narrative...

I agree with you, but the entire game includes to me also DM restrictions and limitations. I never even played in a game where Volos races were allowed. And usually in my games a build needs to be explained by roleplay limitations and causes too like backstory, world setting etc. As I wrote...

I fully agreed with the rest of the post, but here I have to disagree. Heavy RP and Optimize are not opposites of a scale, you can do heavy RP and optimize. You can have a good, deep, complex character that is very good at their profession. And vice versa building an 8 INT wizard doesnt make...

That is fair, but thats a general problem. Also if you just have "normal" players and bad ones at the table, or "normal" and optimizers, its not the optimizers fault per se, its just the problem of different niveau of player skill. In these cases I prefer games where being good at the crunchy...

Thats also utter nonsense. As I said in that other thread, I consider myself a power gamer and optimizer. Never was I told I disrupt things. I also don't enjoy easier games more, the opposite is the case. Give me hard battles and challenges, so my build and my creative use of the game systems...

That is absolutely not true. You can just design harder fights. But designing more difficult fights is not more demanding for the DM, at least in game with encounter balance design guidelines. With your logic I could also say "Designing fights for bad gamers is harder for me, because I need to...

I completely agree with the list - except for Gone Girl. I didn't like this movie too much. And yes Ben Affleck is a brilliant cast - but Neil Patrick Harris was a terrible cast, he pulled me completely out of the movie. But overall Fincher is definitely one of my favorite directors with a...

Great who controls now that AI companies buy all their books they feed into the AI as training data?

I personally am a optimizer and power player. Although I don't use exploits and interactions, that were clearly not RAI. But I like to play efficient characters. I also enjoy deep roleplay and give my characters flawed and complex personalities and in general I am more on the reserved side as...

I think his Thrillers are a better thing to look for how his Bond movies could look like: Sicario, Prisoners, Incendies were are great movies IMO. I really like Villeneuve although I also don't love the Dune movies, his other works are much better IMO. Arrival is one of my favorite scifi movies...

Nowadays I only watch Dimension 20. When I listen to live plays while doing other stuff I miss 50% of the stuff that happens, I can't concentrate on both. So I only watch my favorite show, D20 - but they use mainly D&D. In the rare case they use another system they use more lightweigted...

Haha, that sounds amazing! What a great setting! The other sounded also cool but a lonely boat house at the coast of maine in a rainy night, sounds just right out of Lovecraft or King. I think the buy-in is the most important. Real fear is a very unpleasent experience, so you need the buy-in of...

Really I have seen scared players all the time. Not even in horror games, just regular D&D. Afraid of their PC dying, afraid of NPCs dying, afraid of the enemies I described in disgusting detail. I mean obviously never a REAL fear, but that is quite hard even for a horror movie. At the end we...

I miss Steinbeck in that list! One of my favorite contemporary American authors! But honestly King is not that far from this list of names. I feel he catches American culture really great (at least to me and my European perspective), has great characters and uses horror as effective narrative...

This btw was also fascinating and one of the reasons I did start reading King. While I stated in my previous post that my anti-King bias was rooted in mediocre King adaptions, what I didnt know: I was also watching some great King adaptions, I just did not know they were based on books by King...

Currently reading "Dr. Sleep" after starting my Stephen King readthrough with "The Shining" and "Carrie". At the moment not really a scary book, although it has some creepy moments, but more a contemplative story about guilt, recovery, generational trauma. I think after 2,5 books what surprises...

Interesting read and a good reminder that you should not try to solve out of game problems ingame. I feel like there was multiple serious out of character talks missing.

I would love to rank Wes Anderson movies, but its hard to do, I always confuse them with each other... (only half-joking)

Thats exactl what I do with the additional checks. For example something like the barbarian wants to do a jump attack from a heighened position onto an enemy and I offer the player to do an athletics check, if they succeed they prone the enemy and transfer their falling damage towards the attack...