Recent content by delericho

I wouldn't hold the UK's implementation of this up as anything other than an object lesson.

Indeed. What will matter is how the relevant lawmakers choose to define it. Or, if they don't, how the relevant judges do so.

This looks good. Weren't there four seasons of the show? Or is that another "Star Trek V" situation?

I wouldn't go so far as to say this is a cure-all, but it certainly helps a lot. Were I ever to run 3.x again, I'd also put a much tighter limit on multiclassing: each character can have a maximum of three classes: their races' favoured class, one other base class of their choice, and one...

The problem is implementing age verification that isn't trivially easy for 15-year-olds to bypass while at the same time maintaining appropriate levels of data security and privacy.

Yes, there was some power-creep, and yes simply adding more options necessarily increased the ability to optimize (which led to more powerful, but more specialized characters). So adding all those splats did generally increase the power level. That said, it's absolutely true that the most...

I'm afraid I have really mixed feelings about this (and the Buffy reboot, for that matter). I just find it really hard to muster any enthusiasm for those without Whedon's involvement... and have absolutely no interest in them with his involvement. It's a shame, but perhaps best just to let those...

A gummi bear? As regards owlbears and teeth: by rights, they probably should not. But the illustrations are equally clear, so I guess they do. :)

Every 5e campaign I've run has started at 1st level. For previous editions that's a little less true: of two 4e games I ran, one was at 1st level, the other at 10th. Neither made it to a second session. All (I think) of the 3e campaigns I ran started at 1st level, and there were a good many of...

This is definitely something I can see having value. I've now had multiple groups fall apart because we gradually lost people, down to a point where we could never get to a quorum. Adding virtual players would represent a significant mitigation for that - if I have three players and one can't...

Technically there were only two editions of AD&D... :D But 2nd Ed is a really odd one - according to the various sets of sales data that were posted here a few years ago, it sounds like sales of the edition, or at least individual titles within the edition, dropped like a stone pretty much...

I think 6e will come sooner than you'd expect, will change more than you'd expect (probably leaning hard into AI, either in design or the use of AI players/DMs), and then fall into the "even editions" rule where the game all-but-dies shortly thereafter (though not necessarily because of anything...

You need a poll, but not here. Ask your group to vote.

I do wonder whether this has anything to do with the recent staffing changes at WotC - could be someone in the old team was adamantly opposed to the 5.5e designation while the new team is all for it.

I had a huge amount of fun with 3.x... but I don't think I'd ever go back now. 5e is just a better fit for what I want to do now - I'm too casual a gamer to want to go back. (That said, I know at least one gamer for whom 5e is just too simple, and the heaviest crunchy parts of 3e were just about...