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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...

Back when I worked for the company that recorded audiobooks, I prepped for recording (meaning among other things, that I typed up the chapter titles) a novel where as the book progressed, the chapters got shorter, and the chapter titles--at least, the brief "in which" type headings, which I had...

I don't know if I'd call that "hate-watching"--though it would make their contributions to any discussions trend strongly negative.

It's one thing to, say, keep reading a book in hopes it gets better--especially if it's a book you'd normally finish in a sitting anyway. Going back to something you actively dislike, week after week ... that seems like a form of insanity.

Yeah, I figure people who complain about the rules expect to be able to know the rules and expect the GM to play by the rules--or at least to be consistent in how they color outside them.

You knew that would start s[tuff] and you did it anyway and it started s[tuff]. Good job, have a cookie.

First: We are of course dealing here with tastes and preferences--whatever everyone around a given table is cool with is cool for that table. Second: I think different people will have different minima, and I think even the same person might want different minima in different contexts--what...

Seems to me it's more about how much--and what--information about a given spell is enough to make reasonable decisions about, say, trying to find it. I don't think anyone has said the DM should share all the spells; I think people have said that if you give information that some non-standard...