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Depends, in this case, is right. I might go so far as to say that if someone can deliberately spend extra effort, it's not properly a metacurrency at all. Rather, it's a currency. While there may be meta- aspects about it, as there are with virtually all abstracted game mechanics, being...

Country Joe McDonald has died. https://www.npr.org/2026/03/08/nx-s1-5741805/country-joe-mcdonald-woodstock-vietnam-protest

Pretty much any edition of D&D can work - you just lean into the setting appropriate aspects like making more out of their 5e background as their non-adventuring job or their 3e profession and crafting skills. I would also generally slow advancement to extend the mid level sweet spot.

He certainly missed Rousseau and the Bernoulli family. So...not highly educated in either philosophy or mathematics.

There's some ambiguity in the MGibster's statement and yours that may be tripping you up. Not making a statement that explicitly recommends starting at level 1 isn't the same as recommending NOT starting with level 1, in general. But it does also say, in the segment on starting at higher...

The only way you'll know if the juice is worth the squeeze for you and your group is to give it a go. There are some definite improvements and some things that, I think, aren't. I'd recommend a shorter series going up a few levels (making sure to incorporate the subclasses) as a trial.

We've got a pretty good record going of finishing off APs for the campaigns where we've used them. They offer a promise of some closure if you get to the end of one - at least in the sense that you've resolved a major situation that has arisen in the campaign setting. So, as long as you're...

And since Ashley Johnson joined the group after the one-shot, presumably once they had converted over to Pathfinder, it also is a pretty good explanation why Sarenrae got added to the pantheon.

I'm not sure I agree with anything in the 10 column being anything but 0. Why isn't that a baseline.

I have a fondness for 3e (both 3.0 and 3.5/PF1). The customization, the way rules fit together into a fairly wholistic structure - I found a lot to recommend it. I played 3.5->PF1 for quite a few years (though, given my drothers, I would steal some of 3.0 back into it). But 5e really won me...

We go with Charlaquin's interpretation way up thread about combat happening simultaneously. It's not that the leopard isn't going or hasn't revealed itself, it's that other people are reacting fast enough to have their actions adjudicated first.

Surprise is one of those elements where the rules have varied quite a bit from edition to edition - some much more powerful than others. In AD&D, you might surprise the opposition for multiple segments, which doesn't sound like a lot because they're less than a round, but characters not...

Mostly because the number of examples that involve highly skilled characters reacting to surprise attacks before the attack lands in our inspiration media is substantial. Being sufficiently stealthy vs surprised does stack the deck pretty hard in achieving initiative (advantage for the hidden...

I'm more of the opinion that English-speakers were a very mean-spirited prank played on the Celtic-branch language speakers of Great Britain and Ireland.

I prefer to think of it as genre-based reality rather than REALITY. And genre faithful rules deform REALITY quite a bit - but ideally are still as believable/relatable as reading/watching media in that genre is to the reader/watcher.

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I don't think linear systems are any more prone to over-relying on random chance than non-linear ones - if you're using a random generator, you're using a random generator. Whether they produce a lot of failed results or not (or crits, fumbles, or successes) depends on the target numbers being...

Does any of this translate into the player being resistant to the damage dealt by the DM throwing dice at them? That's the damage resistance that I think would be most necessary when pursuing this strategy.

I prefer core mechanics where the chances of success are relatively easy to estimate for the average player. So I generally favor simpler random number distributions like a flat d20 distribution to more complex ones like 3d6 bell curve for routine and frequent task resolution.

Or, who skates to musical themes based on a video game about ripping out people's spines? Is there a hidden message? Given their country's relationship with Russia, it's not out of the question.