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

[Snarf Zagyg]

Should only require an abacus as Gygax intended.

Gygaxian Problem Solving - The Only True RPG Design Principle

1. Can the problem be solved be solved by a table and a percentile roll?
2. If yes, stop here. If no, go to 3.
3. KREATE MOAR TABLEZ. Go to 1.

 

[Ryujin]

Lord, if it were only that easy! Who your audience might be is a complicated issue in and of itself, before we even get to the words or their order!

Yup. Experience colours interpretation. Even when you can actually teach someone enough that they can consistently convey their thoughts sufficiently well, you cannot teach those who receive the communications how to understand them.

I once had a manager critique my business communications because, in his opinion, I was aiming at too high a reader comprehension level. This master literary critic used the Microsoft Word tool to get the level of my writing. My work was at a college level. For an audience that uniformly had at least a college diploma. He told me to aim for around grade 5.

 

[Ryujin]

Gygaxian Problem Solving - The Only True RPG Design Principle

1. Can the problem be solved be solved by a table and a percentile roll?
2. If yes, stop here. If no, go to 3.
3. KREATE MOAR TABLEZ. Go to 1.

I'm starting a petition to bring back the 1e unarmed combat tables.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I'm starting a petition to bring back the 1e unarmed combat tables.

The Top Ten1e DMG Tables.

1. Disease or Disorder Table
Really, the whole disease section on pp. 13-14 is a Gygaxian table masterpiece.

2. Spy Failure Table
It's all fun and games until you roll, get caught, and then roll a d6 to determine if you're tortured.

3. Change Table for Lycanthropes
I bet you thought you just changed. HA! Wax on, wane off.

4. Sage Fields of Study
Are you into icthyoids, dweomercraeft, or weird spellings?

5. Psionic Attack Upon Defenseless Pisonic
How about we mix percentiles, numbers, and letters in a random ol' matrix? OKAY!

6. Facts Tables
Okay, it's facts and traits about NPC. You want yer facts, I got 'em raight here!

7. Mining: Cubic Volume of Rock per 8 Hours Labor per Miner
Favorite. Table. Ever.

8. Siege Attack Values.
Wherein you learn that Bigby's Clenched Fist is more effective against wood than a screw saw, but has the same effectiveness on hard rock.

9. Every table in Appendix A.
Random dungeon generation FTW! What kind of magic pool is it, anyway?

10. Random Drunk table.
What type of tipsy reveler is it? (Rolls dice) Oh, it isn't a drunken rake, but just a wine-sodden bum.

 

[Gradine]

I love the beer the beer that I love. Not sure why I have to talk about it with anyone or listen to anyone talk about their favorite beer.

LOLOLOLOL I have two friends who are probably the most queer people I know irl and when I came out I tried to get closer to them so I could have a greater connection to them but they will literally spend hours talking about beer and will practically refuse to speak about literally any other topic and it drives me up the wall.

 

[el-remmen]

So you've heard that they're introducing calculus to the tired old "bounded accuracy" in One D&D? I know, I'm excited too!

None of the react emojis available seemed appropriate, so here it is:

 

[el-remmen]

Me: Considering limiting cantrip use to 1 + proficiency bonus between short rests.
Them: What are you going to give them in return for this nerfing?
Me: The challenging fun of figuring out how to overcome limits.

To be clear: This is not mean to come off as suggesting everyone has to like what I like. But I like my video games on Easy Mode and my D&D on hard mode.

 

[Umbran]

Shhh. Don't tell anyone in the D&D forum, but I am one of those weirdos who'd rather my wizard be stuck using a crossbow because he's out of spells than spamming the same cantrips over and over again.

So, take utility cantrips and a crossbow.

Mind you, as a Battlesmith Artificer, you get to infuse that crossbow with magic power, use your Intelligence as your attack and damage bonus stat with it, and get multiple attacks per round...

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

None of the react emojis available seemed appropriate, so here it is:

I was always caught up in the eternal battle between Randy Meisner and Glenn Frey - should I take it to the limit, or take it easy?

In my dotage, I realized that the debate was for the birds.



You're welcome.

 

[payn]

To be clear: This is not mean to come off as suggesting everyone has to like what I like. But I like my video games on Easy Mode and my D&D on hard mode.

I know a few folks that like their D&D nintendo hard