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That won't work - it's going to be an ignore thing. A few months ago something broke with two-way ignore and threads. It used to be that everyone could see and post in a thread regardless of who started it (they'd always see the initial post), which served to prevent duplicate threads and keep...

It's unclear. There's no "arc plot" per se - there's significant character development, there are central mysteries of the setting which get somewhat uncovered in the second book, and the world is changing (for the better and worse) - but the books are standalone mystery novels in a very wild...

Indoctrination theory doesn't really enhance ME3 or the ME series for me, but some significant level of indoctrination is the only possible Watsonian (i.e. in-setting) explanation for a lot of strange things that happen in ME3, particularly those relating to Shepard's behaviour. Unfortunately...

My brother has been trying to get us to play this for ages, hoping we can in January maybe. Reading-wise I've recently read finished two extremely good books, and am most of the way through a pretty interesting one. So I read The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett...

Wild that first edition has like, by far the strongest of those covers, visually and that isn't just nostalgia talking because I'd forgotten that was what it looked like, and had to go check it really was! (Unusually modern-looking for the era) I do appreciate 4th's visual nods to 1st though...

I was skeptical re: the title but in 1985? Yeah I have no doubt whatsoever that that was true. Pendragon was still one of the coolest-looking RPGs when I started buying RPGs in 1989/1990 (though soon beaten out in pure aesthetics by WoD, particularly 2E WoD).

Yeah I was like "But but but...". They were 100% right if they said that! D&D was within inches of at least belonging to a bankrupt company and probably ceasing production for at least a while. WotC buying it and doing what they did was, and I really hate to say this, almost an act of charity...

Not only that, but it was a fluke the studio decided not to follow up on with a sequel. The reasons for that can be discussed separately, but it's almost irrelevant - it just points to how IP licencing has become increasingly unpopular over the last 20 years, and how much difficulty WotC...

I didn't want to derail your thread is why I said that. If you're happy for it to be derailed, I have more detailed ideas on how it could work and what the potential issues might be. The biggest issue is likely that you'd need to support an official app across multiple platforms for the lifetime...

You could definitely have a much more complex TTRPG now if you wanted to now, that ran fast, so long as you mechanically interacted with it via an app/VTT. But that's a whole other discussion.

I think the three seasons of foreshadowing was probably enough.

Only one? Haha. Oh my god there are so many. Let's just do three for now. Triangle Agency is top of my list as "I'd like to play" (don't really want to run, sounds hard!) This is one is easy, haven't presented it to the players, am trying to convince the other guy who DMs to run it lol. SWADE...

That's not actually completely impossible, it's just incredibly rare. I went to school with a kid whose mother was Japanese, and whose father was Welsh, and he had precisely and exactly those features aside from a "copper" skin tone (but I wonder what your source is for that - she's consistently...

I mean, but presumably you do know he's described as having relatively darker skin than we'd consider "white"? And dark hair and initially dark eyes? Or is this one of these "Rue"-type situations where some part of the audience hears "tan skin" or "brown skin" and just thinks he's a white with a...

Some cats and dogs can understand the threat of future action, understand the vague concept of "guilt" (as in future punishment for a thing, and how you should avoid being detected doing it), and so on. Monkeys take items from people and barter them back, even refusing "low" prices for them (in...

Oh there is though. And this is something I've seen reliably across virtually every DM I've ever played D&D with, and the same occurs in actual plays I read/watch/listen to as well. D&D DMs reliably treat spells far better than skills in practice - simply because the utility ones don't involve...

Zardnaar's analyses tend to be very focused on combat capability (not just whiteroom DPR, broader than that) rather than utility and flexibility, so definitely bear that in mind when reading them. I don't think that makes them valueless at all, but anyone's analysis is going to come from a...

I don't think that's actually true in my experience. I mean, we all have our own experiences, right, but in D&D, there's a key and vital difference between Rogue skill checks and spells, and that's that spells always succeed. So when the chips are down, and you really need to succeed, you use a...

This is a very interesting perspective. I don't know if I fully agree, but thank you for sharing it. Interesting that Monks aren't on the list! Would you say they're sufficiently improved in 2024/5.5 or would you never have had an issue with them?

I feel like an update of Oriental Adventures is 100% possible if they do three things: 1) Make damn sure it isn't called Oriental Adventures. 2) Make it about Japanese mythology specifically (including cutting or redoing any elements which aren't present in Japanese myth, but that's not very...