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@Lanefan, I like what you have to say and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. :D A couple of quibbles though. What's wrong with isometric? Again, I play on VTT, so, isometric maps are a ton of fun when done right. Really builds the scene. Which, thinking about it, does play into...

Heh. Actually, and don't hate me, but, I used Gemini to make a VTT token of a halfling monk. The AI generated image gave the halfling six toes on one foot. So, that became his name.

Same boat. The only 2024 character I've gotten to play was in a short lived campaign where I got to play a halfling monk named Jammy Sixtoes. I really liked him.

HOLY CRAP. You've played over 20 characters in about a year? I'm not sure if I've actually played 20 characters ever.

To be fair, Primeval Thule reminds me a lot of Steven Erikson's Malazan series. Which isn't quite S&S, but, it's pretty close. Far closer to something like the Black Company.

That's the problem though. It really isn't. Other than a big bite attack, a T-Rex is a minor baddy. It can't fly, it has no magical abilities, it doesn't regenerate or breathe fire or any of the million other things it could do. Heck, it doesn't even cause fear. So, how much CR can it...

Heh. Having spent some years driving in South Korea, I'm pretty aware of just how bad drivers can be. Wow. That was eye opening.

I'm really sorry, I know I've been banging this drum for far too long, but, I've been noodling around a bit and I think I may have a really clear way of explaining myself. When talking about @Maxperson's driving, he said this: Which, to me, perfectly encapsulates the point I've been making...

One could always hope, but, given the history of the past ten years in D&D, I wouldn't hold my breath. D&D is and always will be, shackled to the corpses of dead authors. And any attempt to even loosen those shackles will be immediately shouted down. It has zero chance of success.

Umm... correction. You may not play it that way, but, I at least try to. And, to be fair, when you don't have long rest classes, it does get a LOT easier to play 6-8 encounters.

Wellllll.... Elric was designed, deliberately, by Moorcock, as the antithesis of the Sword and Sorcery character. Physically weak, plagued by doubts, etc. He's the anti-S&S character. As far as Moorcock coining the term, it was actually Leiber that did that. But, in any case, the genre was...

I'm sorry but these are not facts, nor are they evidence. Your "fact" is that you were told by some friends in your car that you are a good driver. My facts are EVERY SINGLE car insurance company IN THE WORLD says that you are wrong. I mean, good grief, you yourself talk about not having...

Sigh. So, every car insurance company in the world giving you massive discounts on your car insurance isn't proof that having a truck license doesn't make you a better driver? What evidence would you like? Again, as I said earlier, that's the perfect encapsulation of exactly the issue when...

Ok. Now, in all honestly, I've never driven a semi. I have considerable experience driving very large vehicles in the armed forces though. Tandem trailers, large armored vehicles, large trucks. Just not a semi specifically, so, I can only speak to my own experience. But, I imagine that...

I thing @Maxperson here has perfectly encapsulated exactly my point. He has, with zero experience or training, decided that learning to drive a large vehicle will in no way improve his skills at driving a car. It is not possible that learning to drive a large vehicle will improve his driving...

So, apparently learning a completely new thing and not specializing in one single thing made you a better driver? You issue isn't with the idea of moving outside of a specific system, but with the example?

Or, to win the thread - This.

And right there. There we have exactly what I was talking about. Someone with absolutely no experience with something proclaiming that doing that thing could not possibly help, despite not having any experience with that thing. You don't think being able to parallel park a semi-trailer...

Well, see, here's what happened. You and I had talked quite a lot about what I meant, and yes, I do think that a one-game gamer will not be as good as a gamer with broader experience. That's absolutely true. But, then my words got endlessly brought up out of context, any further explanation...