Recent content by GMMichael

Krampus. /thread In a weird twist, an actual Christmas movie featured a German character explaining how Die Hard is actually a horror movie, and Hans Gruber was a Robin Hood-type character, terrorized by John McClane.

In a profit-oriented D&D production, this is a lovely idea. In your home game with Steve doing every munchkin thing possible, it amounts to right now being the most narratively satisfying moment to do it. And I'm not sure I'd want to tell the players they can level up whenever they want...

OP has updated spoiler sections. Here's the new magic example. It deserves a dedicated example, given that magic is where all five modules come together, making it the most complicated module to use.

Almost got Green Ronin's a Song of Ice and Fire from Half Price Books. I didn't because it wasn't half MSRP. Oh, and I bought a $7 pain au chocolat while at a pre-session. The pain was horrible!

I think Matt Mercer's part rolled from one side of his head to the other when you said you'd steal from Daggerheart to add to D&D. But yeah, death moves are a good idea. I've been using them for years now.

Edition Resistance: check this stat to see if any of your other stats are affected by WotC money- or IP-grabs. Alright alright alright . . . D&D really needs a Defense Proficiency, which is what you add to your roll to parry/avoid an attack.

Uh, yeah. It's called capitalism. Well, more specifically, the big-corporate-ownership part. Besides, it was a way for them to stay away from rule changes while still making a new edition. Tough call. I can't seem to think of any other games based on 5e/6e, off the top of my head . . .

I'll say! Sounds like Matthew McConaughey's work is complete too.

Finished it. And I'm recommending it, provided: There's a certain US city you don't like. You don't expect it to be a series, like I did for some dumb reason. (Wow this pilot episode is long!) You're okay with French movies (ones that don't really have a plot).

I shrug, and roll the other 2d6.

What I'm seeing is Hardcore Henry. In. 3. D. Holy . . . pop a couple diazepam and go for a ride!

Ah. The argument I was referencing suggested that TPKs happen more often. Which was incorrect. Happening more or more often are two different things. Average roll of a d20 is 10.5. Chance of any one result: 5%. The d20 gets called "swingy" because of that 5%. Odds of rolling a sum of 10...

But that's not how statistics work. The more you roll the dice is the more they average out. If the DM just gets more and more killer rolls because she's had more encounters, it means she's using loaded dice. The DM has way more levers than that. No. If they all miss in the first round...

So, I'm probably going to look at this through the lens of the OP, in which . . . . . . der_kluge suggests that making fun and engaging encounters is impossibly hard. This hasn't been my experience, so I know that not all RPGs need to be providing mechanisms that counteract their own combat...

I don't think that TPK/TEC (too easy combat) can both "happen so much" and do so in "low rounds of combat." Dice can look less than random over a small set of rolls. But if it's happening a lot, that's no longer a small set. My guess is human error starts creeping in at that range. This is...