Recent content by DEFCON 1

I'm one who actually prefers the longer-written style of modules and adventures because it gives me more narrative flow and more description amongst characters, locations, attitudes, atmosphere and the like. Thus when I run it and improvise my descriptions or areas and the attitudes and voices...

I wonder if your way of thinking on this goes hand-in-hand with what I've gathered about the way your table runs and plays from reading your posts over the years? Wherein it seems (to me) that your campaigns tend to appear much less about specific characters and more so on the experiences of...

Absolutely. But that's where the meta issue comes in, where the players don't do things they think their PCs would do because "out of game" they are trying to be nice or keep the peace. And I don't blame them necessarily for that, because group dynamics can be very tricky things.

Kobold Press doesn't sell at that price because they can... they sell at that price because they have to. Few people would buy the products otherwise because that's just the reality for most non-WotC 3rd party sellers. All of these companies sell their product at the price for which the market...

As I was reading through the thread, this was exactly my thought and I'm glad to see someone else had the same idea! Pretty much everything ever sold 'a la carte' on DDB was way more expensive individually than it "should" have been if one divided up the full-price item into its constituent...

A lot of my issues when people use the "that's what my character would do!" reasoning is that while it might work for that one specific instance when they do something counter to the desires of the rest of the group... that reasoning when taken to its logical conclusion means the character...

You're right... there's no reason why "some" RPG couldn't be designed like that. But that RPG is not 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, which of course is the edition everyone is talking about in this thread about boss monsters and control spells ending fights against those boss monsters early...

If providing a simple fix via house rule was all this thread was meant to be about, it would have ended back on page 1 when it was rightly pointed out to do just that. But "finding solutions" is never what these threads are actually about. They're almost always about people wanting to just...

It also includes about four to six multiclasses as well, a la the glory days of the 3E prestige class smorgasbord. If you haven't multiclassed your PC into a completely incomprehensible narrative you haven't truly optimized. :D

Yeah, but I got my opinion out first, so mine wins. That's the rules of message boards. :D

I do! It's all the people who had demanded Dragonlance, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, and Planescape but then hated the results they were given that are the evidence of my point. But whatever! Everyone can believe what they want. :D

WHAT?!? OPINION?!? ONLY MY OPINION?!? How do you know that? Where's your proof that it was only my opinion?!? Huh? HUH?!? I think that's only your opinion that it was only my opinion! Which means that both opinions cancel each other out and thus my post becomes irrefutable fact! REFUTATION...

Remember... I didn't say people who liked both didn't exist... I said you were rare. Right now there are two of you who are thinking you will like old DS, as well as old DS. So let's count up how many people complain about the new DS book if/when it gets released to see just how rare you...

Did you not read the rest of my post that said that the people who liked old Dark Sun and also liked the new Dark Sun were rare? That means some of you do in fact exist. ;)

You weren't alone in that. When I first saw the dates attached I kept wondering why it mattered to the information what day of the month the book was released on, LOL!