Recent content by GMMichael

This might be a sign of something bigger. When the wife and I watch relationship game shows, I hardly remember anyone's name because all I have to do is wait until that person's confession-room shot to see the contestant's name, age, and occupation. Easy come, easy go.

Convenient? Yes. Useful? Not if you retain less. The kindle has some downsides that a book doesn't. It requires batteries. Remember the great TP Shortage of 2020? Same thing can happen to batteries. Okay, you just charge straight from the outlet. How much control do you have over that...

What I heard is that the new half-edition (they haven't admitted to a full new one yet) is fully compatible. So I would not be happy with my DM telling me that whatever rule I wanted to use was wrong. The DM is always right. Which presents serious problems for the player who doesn't like the...

This is a big reason why I avoid D&D. It was great, back when D&D was the only game, which meant I had to explore or I wouldn't be role-playing. But with a wider horizon, I asked myself, "what if I played a game that was . . . digestible?" I think that the difference, in the brain, is that...

What if you open-source it, and use the ENWorld wiki to post known routes? An X-Y-Z coordinate system from the galaxy center would allow the posting of unique destinations/routes. You'd need that web app for finding "nearby" destinations, though. Let me know if you're interested, so I can...

Napier's constant? Energy?

So, am I hearing "get rid of the Op Attack rule" to make everyone more mobile? Or "if you whiff, the least you can do is draw your opponent's reaction for the round so she can't Op Attack anyone else?"

Nope. Too realistic for my escapism.

My takeaway here is that whoever Grok is, he shouldn't be trusted with making magic items.

But that dwarf is the epitome of D&D player-characters. DM: "While you stand on the precipice, there's a deep rumbling from below. The trees sway, some crack and tumble. A colossal dragon yawns upward at you, for disturbing its . . . " Dwarf PC: "I attack! Rolling initiative!"

So to summarize: "Should all characters be able to do all things?" or "Are class-exclusive abilities okay?" It seems obvious that a character should do things better as character options are directed toward those things. That's what character creation is, right? (Well, ignoring the fluff...

Pendragon's page has a good line for GM's Day: Without the Gamemaster there would be no game; in roleplaying there is not a more noble act than to take on this great responsibility. (Nominees png is showing as broken for me :(

Look, you guys are being really harsh. I think the AI did a fantastic job on the new site.

One million doesn't even cover the portions of the C-suite.