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I think the 2024 Monster Manual is a bit of a mixed bag, leaning toward overall improvement. Some monsters are definitely better, some (like the lycanthropes) definitely worse. Some are a lateral change that is still kind of weird (like the goblinoids now being fey and thus immune to hold...

It is, however, always a relevant question with respect to Traveller which has had so many incarnations. Because I can tell you that Traveller 5, the one in the big black tome, is a propeller-headed geek's wet dream of crunchiness.

Which edition of Traveller?

Ah, good ol' stubbornness. That never gets old.

Really? I don’t think I’ve encountered it anywhere but in D&D spheres, and that’s in 40-odd years of playing mainly trad role playing games.

Not just that they are ignoring you, but they have 2-way ignore on as their setting for ignore behavior. This is, I think, the default setting.

I suspect they might have done away with delaying to avoid exploits with durations of temporary effects like conditions. But if your players aren't cheesing those things, then I wouldn't expect delaying to cause problems.

I feel fortunate that the group I'm running for currently doesn't seem to have any social referee issues. I've only had to really step in and do that a couple of times in the last 25 or so years. I'm going to echo a lot of people here and say it's the moment before the session starts that's the...

It might also mean that player is basically playing Winnie the Pooh, a bear of startlingly little brain. Yet he gets along and saves the day... a lot.

I don't have a problem with mental attributes and using mental attribute terms - as long as they are used for execution of actions when checks are made and not as gatekeepers for playing a certain way.

Misty steps and teleports definitely come to mind as viable options - though ones I could see negotiating away because they're not technically movement even though they do move the target.

I'm not sure I would be happy with that either because it's the GM deciding whether or not a particular idea/tactic is subject to an Intelligence check (not to mention setting the DC) which is tantamount to policing the role play of the character.

The challenge with so many of these ideas is that they encroach on other spells, feats, actions, or abilities that do something similar and therefore devalues them - all because, as a PC, your attack/spell targeting the enemy missed its mark. I understand that people get frustrated when the dice...

Since the target is spending their turn moving away by fastest available means, I'd say that Dash is may very well be expected. After all, it IS an available means (including bonus action dash for appropriate classes) and will contribute to a means that's fastest. The crux of an interpretation...

And that's appropriate. Choices choices choices... and their consequences.

For the game groups I've been in the most lately, there's been a long-standing tradition of playing at the home with the youngest kids - based on the idea that they will need supervision and support (like diapering supplies) the most. But if the game is after bed time, while that may affect the...

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I don't think so - that's far too restrictive. I think you just have to use good judgment about when to do solo or other split party activities and be quick and efficient with them.

By my standards, heck no. However, there are worldviews active in the world today that define that differently. And even in D&D, it's not like alignment is a straight-jacket for behavior that would prevent you from divine cataclysms.

It’s very Old Testamenty, which isn’t really surprising considering the other real-life religious parallels invoked in Dragonlance.