Recent content by Cadence

And companies/politicians that understand how consumers/voters actually spend/vote. [I am not in favor of this part of how reality seems to work ]

My teen (who wasn't the biggest fan of the cartoons, but did watch them all), really likes this cover.

I kind of wonder what the Venn diagram of people who find that choosing one of a very small number of descriptive terms that don't give tons of detail are really useful for sorting through monsters to use ... where A=Combat Role and B=typical Alignment*. * Back when more creatures had a...

My guess, as with most things, is that there is a range in which things work well for most folks. And as you move farther and farther from that range it ejects more and more folks. This can be balance or verisimilitude in games, music volume or temperature in a store, amount of spice in a...

Just because someone set themselves up for a perfect reply doesn't mean I need to do it, just because someone s...

What is "broadly realistic"? Do each of us have a different level of where that cut-off is before getting to "punching through a steel door" [which I agree with you on as going farther than I want]? Is Hawkeye "magic" or "supernatural" within the Comics/MCU? Is James Bond or John McClane...

As was noted above, there is "extraordinary" from 3.5 Special Abilities :: d20srd.org ("Extraordinary abilities are nonmagical, though they may break the laws of physics. They are not something that just anyone can do or even learn to do without extensive training.") As I've said before, I...

That made me go google. It looks like in the UK they are mostly for authenticating things for use abroad. They're apparently the oldest branch of the legal profession in England & Wales (and so apparently not the kind of person you'd find at a copy shop or pack-and-send store, for example).

Getting a group of adults together twice a month is no small feat!

RE: Fan Fiction I hadn't realized the Sherlock Holmes stuff started so early: Sherlock Holmes fandom - Wikipedia. (1897-1902).

FTFY while maintaining word count.

Starts at 53:20. The gist is something like "We were told that what we did needed to feel familiar to people who played digital games." "To be simpler in a sense instead of having to master a simulation." Podcast 191 Mastering Dungeons | Mastering Dungeons

I'm not sure I ever used the rules for those in my life - and kind of just assumed everyone else just eyeballed it to.

I would be kind of surprised if none of the 4e designers ever played MMOs regularly, and if they did play them that none of them that did so at all were influenced by it. I find it kind of funny how many people are apparently traumatized that it might have happened. (Do any MMO players act...

I was talking about adding suggestions for modding them at the bottom of each monster page (more strikey kobold, more controllynkobokd, etc...). Would that pigeonhole them more or help make them more flexible?