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There is, of course, a vast middle ground between "all we need is a 32-page saddle-bound booklet, we're good" and "this 900-page tome that looks like a college science textbook isn't quite enough for us" and I think most tables will find their place in that middle ground and function just fine...

Most of the time, arguments about gaming accomplish nothing more for me than wrecking my mood in a way that makes me useless for gaming. I have learned this, and I make an effort to avoid arguments (though I sometimes fail).

Ad nauseum.

Holy crap that's quite possibly one of the dumbest positions I have ever seen anyone take on the internet.

So one of those things seems out of place and there's at least one omission I can think of, but it's still neat.

Still kinda on my rhythm, in spite of a brief interruption for a long weekend away, for our anniversary. Last three books: All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers, a distressingly uncritical take on true crime and other news and newsish coverage of murders, manages not one but two downbeat...

I feel seen, here, as well as personally attacked. :LOL:

Vanilla ice cream can be kinky. Just sayin'.

Unrelated to the above: Y'all go on and be excited, seems kinda mediocre to me.

Then I apparently misunderstood the post. (Prabe goes back and looks at the post. Pages fly from the calendar. Prabe returns.) I apparently have the dumb this evening--those were both the correct phrases, not the manglings. (Prabe wanders off to see about rebooting his brain.)

I was pretty sure "bated breath" was correct, and "bated" was some short/archaic term for "held still" or something. I see "baited breath" from time to time, which makes me think of the cat that ate the cheese ...

Thing is, it's relatively easy to re-write the social mechanics in the DMG without having BIFTs to hang them on--and they work better, that way. I did that and then gave my players the rules. They can now play social mechanics as a game, which is fine, because, y'know, we're playing a game.

It is not correct. D&D works just fine as a narrative game, but it's not a particularly Narrativist one--which is OK with me, as I haven't read or played a Narrativist game that I'd want to play (or play again). It comes across to me as a game that was written with the idea that the DM would be...

In my experience and opinion--I'm not looking for any fights, here: The problems with 5e are ... well, apart from some features/spells/rules that don't seem to have been super well-considered, mostly about A) the Bonds/Ideals/Flaws/Traits not being super well-implemented, B) Inspiration not...

I'm running two campaigns of D&D 5e, and they're working really well. There are some proud nails in the system that we've either ignored (explicitly or otherwise) or had to houserule around, and while I don't mind hacking the rules if the game goes in some direction not included in the...