Recent content by Clint_L

To be fair, if I was lucky enough to still be playing with all my buddies from back in the day, and still having a good time, I wouldn’t feel much incentive to swap editions. I swapped because I largely fell out of the game and then came back for 5e because my kid wanted to play. And now I run...

Who says I don't critically examine other cultures, including my own? I can assure you that I do. But that's got nothing to do with this film, which specifically uses some language that echoes WW2 denialism from the Japanese Far Right, and a plot that serves to rehabilitate the Japanese...

Liking new things takes effort, and the latest research shows that the cognitive reward (literally, the dopamine rush) we get from new learning declines with age. So liking new things takes even more effort as we age. Then I think it basically becomes a cost/benefit analysis to most people. For...

A burger is not a sandwich! I will die on that hill!

I always turn King of Tokyo into an RPG, and annoy the other players by insisting on speaking in character (I'm always Gigazaur) and on declaring my own win condition, which is always to finish the game with the most power-ups. My Gigazaur is generally a pacifist, and it really cheezes the...

The thing with white room examples is that you can come up with a scenario where almost any spell or combination of spells, abilities, etc. can seem OP, and that is true of circle casting as well. But when you start mathing out more typical situations, I'm not seeing it as particularly...

Agreed! They’re one of the most popular classes with new players, and more variety would be great! BTW Jester is half-Tiefling and half-Genasi.

Man, there were so many Canadian tourists there this summer it was crazy. It became a destination of choice for people cancelling US vacations. It’s quite a contrast, but I absolutely loved it. And Porto was the best.

Also this. I’ll play any class in any campaign you want. And while I like to argue and discuss on the forum, but I swear that IRL I am as congenial as you can imagine.

It’s not a full campaign, but I’ve never played through the 1e Tomb of Horrors despite owning it all through my 1e years. I’d love to do it at a convention or something.

In my school campaign, which uses DDB and the 2024 rules, one of my players wanted to make an Echo Knight, but couldn’t. Strange. The campaign is set on Exandria, and I triple checked and made sure that CR options were toggled on. I have all the CR books, and several of my players have played...

No lie, I had the best burger and best fries of my life at a restaurant in Portugal, of all places, just this past summer. It was the rooftop lounge at the Rebello hotel in Porto, and I cannot recommend them emphatically enough. All the food was incredible, as were the fancy cocktails. But that...

D&D is my main, Dread is my fav, Fiasco is a great for casual sessions, and I occasionally intersperse with a short CoC or Eldritch Horror campaign. Then we try other games when someone get interested enough to prep it. But it's 90% D&D lately.

Well, Canada has that French culture! Edit: but honestly, I'm not picky about the bun, as long as it is firm enough to keep the burger intact!

Fair, though I was struck by how the climax, in particular, was framed as a collective military action and a chance for redemption, and some of the rhetoric used in the filmed echoed that of the Japanese Far Right...and that's as far as I can safely go with that.