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Actually, Magic missile is surprisingly bad for breaking concentration, as many classes that get access to Suggestion also get access to Shield, and Shield negates Magic Missile. I created a homebrew 2nd level spell (Flurry of Snowballs) that fits the niche of (I) causing multiple concentration...

Unfortunately, they told him the opposite. His one non-Michael Bay film « Pain and Gain » was his biggest flop, even though I rather liked it.

Well, the discussion was about how poorly designed game mechanics can affect the pacing of a game, so the fact that you can improve pacing of the game by changing or ignoring game mechanics is somewhat irrelevant. So, if you change the mechanics so they aren't simply busywork, they may not be...

I think this is a very good point and it gets at an issue I had with a D&D adjacent game, PF2. In PF2, you can make a Medicine roll which takes 10 minutes, to heal damage. You can also make a Crafting roll, which takes 10 minutes, to repair damage to your shield. In both cases, you can spam...

I get the fact that you’re agreeing with me here, but it does seem like the line is pretty clear cut. I mean, I specifically said « a town isn’t an encounter » and you had to change the premise to « generating a ´village´ » to make it halfway plausible as an encounter.

I actually don’t think D&D would term finding a town an encounter.

I think the distinction between calling ruins an encounter and calling a town an encounter is relevant.

[…] Definitely, @EzekielRaiden ‘s approach to motivating the characters both seems a lot more interesting and engaging, and more likely to result in characters with a broader selection of motivations.

Even in D&D terms, I don’t think I’ve come across anyone who has said they « encountered » a town.

This kind of makes the definition of encounters meaningless though. If my level 5 group is more interested by the caves of Despair and decides not to go to the Cliffs of Carnage, it doesn’t really make sense to say that we « bypassed » the Cliffs of Carnage, even if both the caves and the...

I agree with everything you’ve said. It’s interesting though: « woke leads to failure » is only trotted out as an argument if the game is already failing for other reasons. Baldur’s gate 3 came out in 2023. It has tons of LGBTQ+ characters, including a trans character voiced by a trans actor...

This doesn’t seem like a very effective example because it simultaneously universally true in all RPG systems (whether Narrativist, trad or sandbox, if a character is established in a particular location, he is not going to appear elsewhere), but also false in a matter that is independent of RPG...

Interesting, since this design choice is considerably more common in Level up than in 5e.

If you are exercising your character’s agency, why would you say something that doesn’t really matter? I think this is a circular argument. You can’t immerse yourself into the character, so you claim that what your character says doesn’t really matter. Then you claim that because what your...

Not necessarily. The battlemaster’s Menacing Attack is a non-supernatural effect that imposes the frightened condition.

Of those examples, only the Jedi got in nearly as many life-threatening combats as the average D&D party. And as others have pointed out, super-special space magus doesn’t exactly scream everyman. I mean, the actual everyman in Star Wars is pretty clearly Han.

I think we are talking about more than 1 genre here, and that is causing confusion. When I think of the everyman, I’m thinking of a character who doesn’t fight at all. He supports the party in other ways, knowledge, heart, skills, etc. If that character got involved in battle, or was revealed...

The challenge with this formulation is that it often doesn’t make the character seem like an everyman. On the contrary, it highlights how abnormal and special he is. If I were to traverse a battlefield unarmed and unarmored and not get hit, you wouldn’t conclude that I’m a normal dude. You...

The specific example was the players not biting ONE campaign hook. In a sandbox, that SHOULD be unremarkable. Why are you acting like it means that « the DM should always try to please every single player even if it means the DM and the other players are less happy with the game »?

No, combat is a more complex part of the game because it has more rules.