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Monster stat blocks and combat? Oh, yes, absolutely.

D&D Lite?

The uncertainty is causing as much market disruption as the tariffs themselves.

I also prefer "in-person" over "face-to-face or "meatspace." :ROFLMAO:

All this argument over a bunch of mechanics and rules "to protect poor weak, innocent players against imaginary, despotic GMs, who just want to write their novels." As if strict rules and mechanics can somehow protect you from bad players, bad GMs or other people you don't agree with. I'm done...

Have no issue with player agency and establishing character goals. What bores me is the attempt to systemize agency with strict rules and elaborate mechanics. Playing a character is an art not a science. This feels very much like trying to solve a human social problem by completely changing the...

The effort to turn RPG guidelines into hard and immutable rules is as old as the hobby itself.

The method of starting with chess as the analogy to RPG makes me tend to agree. Why are we putting competitive boardgame constraints and frameworks on a cooperative storytelling exercise? Answer: because some people want RPG to be more like board (and computer) games.

It would need to be made extraordinarily easy (no red tape) and low cost barrier to entry in order for it to have even a chance of working. By the way, I’m all for bringing manufacturing local, it just needs to be feasible.

The intended goal of tariffs has always been to encourage/force business to shift operations to the local country, but it has seldom (if ever) worked out that way. Typically, the business simply continues its current operations, finds other markets and shifts costs to the consumers of the...

I’m wondering if it makes sense for companies to go digital only while this thing shakes out. Less happy for board games which require physical pieces.

Oh I do this as standard practice. And everyone does give me their actions which works fine in most cases. But there are times between action scenes or when prepping for something upcoming that I’d like to see the group to coordinate or at least talk to each other. It’s the difference between...

Nah, just a grumpy and overbearing old git. :p

I like those edits. Are you thinking the one I bolded in your quote would cover the situation I've posted, or is that new one I'm thinking of getting at the cooperation goal?

Sure. Two of the players are veteran role-players and the defacto "speaker" is one of them. They both understand well at least the concept of cooperative play, but the "speaker" pretty much dictates all tactical operations. He doesn't talk to other players, only to the GM. Of the other players...

Oh, it's definitely a behavioral issue.

You just gave me a great idea. Dragonbane awards bonus XP checks for each of the following questions (each session): Did you participate in the game session? Did you explore a new location? Did you defeat one or more dangerous adversaries? Did you overcome an obstacle without using force? Did...

So one of the things I've had struggles with in our group is getting players to talk with each other and to strategize together. Often, each player is a miniature silo telling me what each is doing without any interaction or cooperation with other players. Pretty frustrating, especially when I...

No. "Skilled play" is not metagaming. Skilled play is being aware of the scenario situation, thinking proactively, responding to challenges with clear thought and deduction, using your character's skills and abilities intelligently, acting as a team, and applying common sense.

They might have been better off buying one of the other VTTs or contracting out a dedicated team from that VTT to support D&D and Beyond subscribers.