Recent content by FitzTheRuke

I own my store, but I will be honest - I am often disappointed by my TTRPG section. It's not for lack of trying - we have a bunch of non-D&D titles. They just don't sell very well, so I can hardly justify getting too many more. To be fair to my customers, we're only 1/3 a game store, and 2/3 a...

You've nailed how I've felt about it and put it into words, thanks! I'd have taken no issue with "needed more work". I certainly agree on that point when it comes to @EzekielRaiden's version of the discussion regarding NEXT to 2014. Apparently, so does @mearls! (The "needed more time" part...

For a Doctor, Robbie sure is cavalier about basic motorcycle safety. I'm sure that's not by accident. One part "physician heal thyself" and another part "he don't care no more".

I'm different than many here in that I don't (usually) simply decide what is in the world (easy or hard encounter-wise) and let the balance figure itself out, but instead I try to make for an interesting encounter - with new tactical decisions, different enemies, and an interesting location. As...

You're right that it's often used that way - but it's also often meant (as I have the impression here) that they thought she was dead and were forced to move on without retrieving her body.

I don't quite understand why the players are so mad at the brothers - did her brothers cause her injuries? Because "leaving her for dead" isn't a crime - it's a tragic mistake.

Honestly, I agree with your last statement, regarding use of hyperbole. I personally don't think that it's wrong to overstate things for effect - I do it quite often (and often get in trouble for it, because a LOT of people don't like it, even when it is obvious what the speaker is trying to...

Yes! It was, if I recall, two out of two (or perhaps three) at that point. Agreed. I seem to have done it myself, but "lazy" is itself hyperbole - I don't think anyone who worked on it is likely to agree that they were lazy. Time-strapped? Under staffed? That sort of thing, most probably. I...

You had TIME to run it all the way to 20? I am soooo jelly that give me PB and bread, and I'd have a sandwich!

Did I say that? I suppose that may have come off stronger than I intended. At any rate, the first time he used the term "lazy", I let it go, because I really wanted to know what he had to say. The second time I commented, because it seemed to be a forming pattern. Also, I don't think I ought to...

Two is too many to be polite, and you glossed over the part where I said that it was too bad that you couldn't be civil, because I was interested in what you had to say, otherwise. From my perspective, very few people were dismissive of your choice to critique (we welcome it, in fact). They...

AFAICT, the whole reason for "backwards compatibility" was to keep the Adventures in print without needing to revise them. It's part of the whole point.

I don't entirely disagree with you, but there's no need to rewrite lore - as far as I can tell, Orcs have done everything that they have ever done. It's just that by 1501dr in Faerun, many of the various "tribes" have made peace with much of their neighbours. Some still cling to the old ways, or...

I saw it for free (back then, I regularly was comped movie tickets) and I desperately wanted my two hours back. I was robbed.

I think that it would seem right.