Recent content by Paul Farquhar

The humans in Wall-E have nothing to do apart from sit around and wait to die. Which we can assume won't take long since they are all massively overweight. Of course, they might be like the Eloi in the Time Machine, and they are overweight because they are going to become food. But without...

No, it isn't. A hobby is just a job that you do to please yourself. And you don't need to be particularly "wealthy" to choose your job, and find something that is rewarding and satisfying. I was a teacher, that's not exactly a well paid job, and often it wasn't pleasurable, but I did it for the...

I don’t find that practical in 5e. It becomes slow and unwieldy. Players get bored when they spend over half an hour waiting to take their turn. And many of the NPC combatants on either side can’t make a meaningful contribution anyway. Allies are a liability. 1st edition or BX were much better...

I would think the opposite is more likely - the writers could tell whatever story they wanted with D&D, especially if they go with a homebrew setting. Telling your own stories is what D&D is for. Although they really need to ditch the live action idea. Top quality animation would be far more...

I use quite a lot of puzzle fights, where the monster keeps getting back up until they figure out what they need to do to kill it. But that's more of a puzzle challenge than a combat challenge.

Yeah, I know, but I didn’t want to state that outright in case they were talking about a 5e conversation. Pathfinder 1st edition is a very different game to 5e. I’m more familiar with the computer version, where it throws several dozen mythic demons at the party in real time with pause. And...

They could have Pike hand over the Enterprise to Kirk, then flash forward 2 or 3 years to the accident and events in Menagerie.

Yeah, they only eat your flesh, whereas the Dragonlance ones destroy your soul.

What ruleset are you using? The CRPG? Not 5e out the box if you have Mythic tiers in any case. “Use different rules” is certainly a solution, but outside the parameters of the exercise.

Both settings turn halflings into terrifying monsters.

As I said, minions are pointless. Multiple bosses, the players will just split up and take them out one at a time. The only way those PCs aren’t going to win is if the opponents can take out the entire party in the first round of combat. And that doesn’t make for a good encounter either.

Doesn’t work. Unless the monster has an kill everyone with no save ability and wins initiative, it’s going down, probably in less than two rounds. Doesn’t matter how much you inflate it’s hit points, and minions are useless, the PCs will simply ignore them until after the boss is dead.

Tied to the belief system of a real world religion, that isn't particularly compatible with Dark Sun. Didn't Dark Sun have druids from the start? Dragonlance, on the other hand (inconsistently) has no druids.

This really, is the important question. To understand the significance, you need to know what the Berlin Wall was, and why it was there. But that's not "lost" information. Even if you can't read, you can still find a village elder who can explain it to you.

Too good, that's the issue. Combat is basically an "I win" button for the PCs. So you need to challenge them with problems that cannot be solved with violence.