Recent content by Gorgon Zee

This. All the way. It's GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES levels of sad.

So .. isn't that exactly what I do when I am a GM? I respond using words in orders that seem likely to be appropriate to the statements of my players? I'm not going to respond to "they can't think" since there is no solid definition of what thinking is. But they certainly can come up with...

One thing I'm not sure was clarified was how may sessions you have been at in the campaign., For me, it takes 3-4 sessions to get into any new moderately crunchy system, and I'd allocate at least the same time for a new GM to settle in, so I'd honestly expect the first 6-8 sessions to be rocky...

Well, you could also break it down as: Calculate situational modifiers to determine attack and defense modifiers to apply to next strep Roll to hit, incorporating modifiers Check for a critical hit and/or for fumbles Check for interrupts that may be used to affect this roll If applicable roll...

Well, in the last month it occurred in one online game at PaizoCon and in another game at Origins -- and this mirrors my experience in LG, LFR and LF campaigns. It's mostly confined to crunchy systems. I'm honestly surprised that you haven't encountered it -- maybe you don't play crunchy games...

So, I do a lot of optimization for my day job, and a couple of concepts there I think are useful in the context of this discussion. The second is CONSTRAINTS. You must have constraints to optimize within, and although those can be just the rules system, many players optimize within a...

So, I do a lot of optimization for my day job, and a couple of concepts there I think are useful in the context of this discussion. The first is GOAL. Although you could say a character optimizer's goal is to make the most effective character possible, I think that in practice I've seen a...

Wining and losing are what characters do; do not what players do. As a player, your focus is having fun and (I strongly hope) helping others have fun. A player does not win, unless they happen to be in an actual competition (like the Cthulhu Masters). But players can be happy with how their...

I grew up in the British Isles both watching the movies and reading the books. One of the reasons I strongly enjoyed Daniel Craig as Bond was that I felt he had the necessary coldness. James Bond, in the books, shows an ability to be clinically businesslike and switch from romantic mood to a...

Sites used by ChatGPT to form the above article (enworld did not make it ...): adeptplay.com amazon.com amazingstories.com anyflip.com blogofholding.com brandesstoddard.com critical-hits.com d20srd.org dandwiki.com dmdavid.com dnd4.fandom.com dndbeyond.com dmsguild.com dungeonsmaster.com...

So, to provide another version of the same question I used o3 to evaluate the following prompt: You are a professional writer creating an article for experienced roleplayers. Your task is to create an article that describes D&D 4E as a TTRPG. In your article, use headers to organize the...

Mechanical Characteristics of D&D: Class & Level Progression Six(-ish) Ability Scores Hit Points - Damage chips away at a single pool D20 - Roll 1d20 + modifiers vs. a target number AC - Armor makes you harder to hit, not mitigating damage Play Experience Characteristics: Kitchen-Sink High...

The graph shows activity over time, but was actually pretty stable for the last few months. In the past I have used Gen Con catalogs to measure popularity, weighting events by number of people that could attend (PFS and 5E events often have a lot of tables running). It's not bad for...

Looking at google search trends recently, we have shadowdark and cosmere scoring <10, daggerheart coming in at just below 30 and D&D at 90. I cannot add in pathfinder as there's a lot of non-rpg related search for that. In terms of general interest as measured by search terms, Daggerheart is...

No disagreement here. Maybe Firefly might need some sci-fi specific rules, but not enough for a whole system.