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At level 14, flight is near the bottom of the list of things that make my DM life hard so it doesn't surprise me at all that it didn't cause any problems at your table.

I Kick a lot of projects, but I just don't have any use for this one. Still, good luck to him.

Flying PCs is one of those things that doesn't sound too terrible in theory to DMs (or players), but in practice, it can be a huge pain in the ass. Certainly you can account for flying, but once it's introduced, you ALWAYS have to account for it. Flight tends to steal some level of dynamic play...

Yep. I encountered one of the campaign-ending failure scenarios that I wasn't even aware existed after I had invested something like 60 hours. There wasn't any way to recover it, I had to start over. I said fuck that and downloaded a memory hack so I could turn back the world clock in-game.

I'm incredibly excited about this game. My Fantasy Grounds D&D game is tomorrow night and I know I'm going to be counting the minutes until we're done so I can properly dive in to this. I love my tabletop game, but Iso-RPGs do it for me differently (particularly the best-in-class ones) and I've...

I absolutey loved the first game, but I haven't touched any of the testing opportunities. In fact, I haven't even read much about the story because I want the experience to be as pure as possible. Without spoilers, how does your limited experience with the sequel rate in comparison to the...

The other two pieces of really important advice I can give you for DMs with minimal experience is: 1. Do NOT allow players to play use content from 3rd party sources. You're not going to have the experience to recognize the problems it can create. Classes, sub-classes, spells, feats, etc from...

Tasha's DEFINITELY has some player options that are incredibly powerful relative to content from earlier books like the PHB. The custom lineage optional rule is complete retardation and banned at my table. It's a min/max power gamers wet dream. If you allow that, all other races (except some of...

I was a day 1 purchaser of the 1st game and went through all of that crap so I'm a bit apprehensive about the sequel though I'm still going to buy it too on launch day. Hopefully, they've learned from the mistakes that were made in the original game because it did eventually evolve in to the...

I've been using the Exhaustion penalty on knockdown for over a year. It can spiral out of control if the players are careless, it's supposed to. That's one of the primary reasons it exists and it's worked very well for me. There is a bit of an adjustment period for players that are used to not...

I absolutely hate this too. I try to address it by making lengthy downtime activities so attractive that players really want to spend several abstract months between adventures to work on side-projects. For groups that enjoy it, I also enforce a rule that leveling requires (progressively more...

It's a bit tempting since the game is so infrequent. I'll think it over and get back to you. If I do decide to give it a shot, I'd definitely make the drive. I'd never put you and the group in the incredibly awkward position to try and make a remote player work in a tabletop situation.

You're only about 2 hours from me.

Though I obviously prefer newer stuff, there are a lot of grognards that feel exactly the same way you do. OSR (old-school rules) has a pretty large and faithful fan-base.

I started playing with 1st edition, but I quickly moved to 2nd and that's really where I cut my teeth. Despite the massive nostalgia I have for 2e, it (and definitely 1e) are objectively inferior systems to everything that came after it; including the trainwreck of 4e. 3/3.5 was golden age of...

I can agree with you that the itemization was not great. Also, I really dislike magic item vendors, especially those with magic items as powerful as the items that were available to be purchased. I did like what they were trying to do with the faction system and integrating it with crafting...

I haven't bothered to follow this debacle for several reasons: 1. I don't play any Blizzard games 2. Even if some of the stories of misconduct are true, the years of women abusing the system to embellish stories, or to outright lie.. drained me of all the fucks I had to give. 3. I'm glad to see...

Looks interesting. Reading lore/story arcs for well-conceptualized content is fun. I really wish I could do the same, but I have people that play in my campaign that read this thread. It can be super frustrating having to keep all the cool shit you know/have planned, to yourself.

4e is a breeze compared to 3/3.5. Over the last 6 months I've been on a buying-spree of physical copies of old material to flesh out my collection and to replace stuff that I've lost, given away, or had stolen over the years and I've found that only incredibly rare print runs or copies of the...

This is a fantastic game for the amount of resources and number of people it had devoted to it. To those of you who don't seem to understand why there's so much seemingly dead-end content -- it has a purpose. Those 'dead-ends' are little tech demos and love letters to fans/potential...

Did our paths ever cross in EQ? My primary character's name in EQ is my FoH forum name (before my BotB title displaced my surname). I swear I remember interacting with some little faggoty, autistic Monk (I think?) by the name of Secrets, but I can't be sure. What servers did you play on? Oh...

I back nearly everything that KP publishes for D&D and I'm excited for players with this one. Hopefully, they keep the power levels in check so the new options don't immediately make everything else obsolete. Just launched.

I just finished this earlier today and felt it was a good game. It's extremely obvious that it's a low-budget game, but I was legitimately impressed with what they were able to accomplish with such a small team and very little money to work with. The mechanics of the game are fantastic and...

Something interesting about mapping on VTTs is the recent implementation of lighting/line of sight and how punishing those features are going to be until players adapt. I know for a fact that, in many cases, lighting in dark areas and LoS gets hand waved, forgotten, or have their impact...

I don't think I can disagree with you.

For me, the thought of running combat without a map sounds terrible. Even in the late 80s when I started playing, we'd draw out the area on graph paper or on a dry erase board. I've never played in or run a game without maps, but I do see the possible benefits of using theater of the mind. With...

Super valuable site, but it's not even a fraction of a fraction of what The Trove is/was. To answer the question -- No, there's no replacement, but the Trove 'staff' say they're still working to get back up and running. There's a lot of rumors swirling about what happened, but I wouldn't put in...

A couple other people in their comment section also mentioned the similarties, but the Dungeon Dudes (creators) response to it was -- "there's nothing to it, any similarities are purely coincidental." Then, earlier today, they responded to my posts stating they have previously reached out to GW...

I don't even like GW (in fact, I think they're pretty scummy), but I emailed their legal department about the KS. I feel like a snitch, but this is just too blatant a theft of IP with absolutely no credit given to the source material. Had they done just the bare minimum and made a highly...

Eh...I didn't know any of that. Looks like I'll be roasting them and then withdrawing my pledge. I'd like to think that these guys played the PC game and got inspired to do a 5e re-skin, but the similarities are too ridiculous. I get cool ideas from existing IP all the time and sometimes change...

I got exposed to him through his node series way back and just watched his whole 'quit' video, but I'm not sure why because I haven't played BDO in years. A few months ago, I did log ib once to preserve my account, but I didn't actually do anything. Now that I think about it, I suspect I...

I've honestly never understood why WoTC ever bothered to listen to the competitive crew because spikes don't buy cards. With each set release they'll either trade with casuals or use store credit to pick up what they need. Spending money is a last resort and even then it's on singles, not...

That may be true to a certain degree, but the economy of MTGO makes it exceptionally easy to cash out and take very little loss. Bot price scrapers can even allow you to come out ahead if you have the patience to sell card by card. Before I gave up Magic entirely, I bought in and sold out of...

I just backed this immediately after it fired 25 minutes ago. I know this one is going to be great. I already use some of his ideas. That cover art is some lame weeb type shit, but the mechanics are solid.

Yep. If I ever move I plan to make my own. Unfortunately, when I was designing the house we built, I wasn't planning on running games of D&D at home so I don't have space for it. My man cave is awesome, but it's not a good fit for a gaming table. I don't even have a traditional dining room...

Yep. I haven't played Magic for 6 years, but I've been checking in on the FR set because I'm a massive D&D fan (fuck WoTC though) and the naming conventions really do suck. They're almost campy or like something you'd see in a starter set for a new player campaign. I'm not sure how to describe it.

Whatever happened to Soriak? I remember that dude being a goddamn savant when it came to discussions about economics or am I misremembering? It has been years since I've even thought about him.

Ya, my fault. I over-simplified my argument. I'm also a bit guilty of: "I know how this works, but goddamn I'm struggling to explain it to you." To add to my earlier post -- Eventually, the Fed is going to have to do something with interest rates. Money has been cheap for a very long time, but...

It's a little more difficult to encapsulate than a simple bulleted list because each contributing factor is extremely nuanced, but with a few simple searches you can easily find economists discussing it in far better language than I am capable of. However, I will say that hyper-inflation is a...

I'm not interested in anything but BTC. 250k is about 30% of my total assets so even if I lost my entire bankroll I wouldn't be completely crippled. Though it would be quite a dick-punch. As a few others in this thread have pointed out, we're in very dangerous waters and I genuinely believe...