The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Malmuria]

I have never, not once, noticed or cared about the "martial-caster disparity" and whenever I see someone bring it up as the most important thing to them it makes me realize we are really playing different games.

Other things I don't care about

• "customization"
• dead levels
• precise encounter building guidelines or balance

 

[dragoner]

• tweakers

 

[CleverNickName]

• bounded accuracy
• uniform level progression
• balanced encounters
• action economy
• your character's DPR

 

[payn]

• Critical Role
• 4E

 

[J.Quondam]

• the color palette of the art

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

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Am I the only one that thinks it looks like that turtle has a mustache?

 

[RealAlHazred]

• Whatever Gary Gygax thought about how one "should" play the game
• Whatever Dave Arneson thought about how one "should" play the game
• In fact, whatever anyone thinks about how one "should" play the game

 

[payn]

• Whatever Gary Gygax thought about how one "should" play the game
• Whatever Dave Arneson thought about how one "should" play the game
• In fact, whatever anyone thinks about how one "should" play the game

Yes, of course, its not should but must!

 

[RealAlHazred]

Apropos of nothing, my favorite bit of Venus trivia is that the first thing the lander did was to pop out the camera to take pictures, and the second thing it did was to extend a sampler arm to take samples, all extremely quickly because the Russians knew this thing would last maybe a few hours at most in the hostile environment. It was doomed to be destroyed by the environment of sulfuric acid thunderstorms and crushing pressure and temperature.

Anyway, the scientists are busy analyzing their samples and talking about how odd the chemical composition is, when one of the guys looking over the photographs shows everybody something that makes them tear their hair out. It's a photo of the sampler arm, and it's "hand" is poised directly over the lens cap. They'd sent the probe thousands of miles through space, and some of their data was worthless because they had sampled bits the probe brought from earth.

I still remember the photo with the sampler arm on the lens cap in a Science textbook back in the Eighties.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Yes, of course, its not should but must!

Listen, my Dungeon Master is EF Hutton, and he says...