Recent content by Retros_x

IMO ease of LR is super overlooked by many DM. The complete game balance is heavily influenced by resting. If you don't use long rests as intented some classes definitely get much stronger than others. Difficulty per se isn't affected as long as the players can have influence on the moment to...

Your original post claimed it was bad writing. But it turned out, its just not your taste. I personally thought that many adventures in the book were quite well designed (not all of course). In general I appreciate all the new faces and designers. I want something fresh. If I want to play old...

I disagree a bit here - the adventure materials is indeed easy to convert, thats why I will plunder it probably. But the full game needs more work because of the very distinct species and magic systems. At least thats what it looked like to me on a first glance, admittedly I did not do a deep...

Excellent examples! I want to add the system analysis perspective: Complication is defined by the structure of a system and its quantity - how many parts are there and how many layers and subsystems, how many steps does a process have. Complexity is defined by the behaviour of a system and the...

I agree with you. Decisions should not be simple, but it doesnt mean it needs to be complex. If a decision between two simple options is hard for you, its not a simple decision. The options themselves might be simple, but the decision is not. I am not saying that "ingame" gameplay decisions...

As a German... no, thats so bad. Reminds me of the funny German names from the anime "Frieren" (german for freezing). The characters have German first names with hilarious meanings "heaven", "far", "fork", "being". Which is funny because a lot of 5e products I learned about also didn't feel...

I personaly like the complexity to be not there when you need to decide fast at the table and more in the "backend" - character creation and building etc.

I have to admit, I regret a little bit backing Dolmenwood - I backed one of the big collectors packs because I thought it looked amazing and I loved OSE at that point. Unfortunately in the meantime I learned to love Shadowdark... And I will still probably rip content from Dolmenwood, because it...

tbf ARPANET existed long before Stephen King wrote the book and modern protocols that we still use today like TCP and ICMP were specified in 1981. Radio was already an old technology at this point, private/small scale radio networks were already a goal/wish, the technology wasn't ready yet (too...

I absolutely agree and I am extremely annoyed about DPR as main focus in a lot of discussions. Even if you focus on combat and leave out all the other aspects of D&D DPR only makes sense... for characters in damage dealing roles. Thats how we end up with "monks are super bad", but when I played...

Really interesting! I first stumbled unto this term when I watched and read "Attack on Titan" - while it has definitely a lot of conflict, it still has this 4 act structure where you have a halfpoint switch of perspective that completely puzzles you and when it all comes together the whole story...

I read a lot as a child and as a youth and asked myself 2 years ago - why do even 1 book a month seem like a big task? So i changed a few things how I spent my time. The big thing was deleting most social media and time limiting the ones I still want to use. Even enworld gets only 15 minutes per...

Normally I am not fussy and pinicky and I can accept that sometimes authors have to bent the story and plausability a bit, but this seems like such an obvious and big oversight. It contradicts the basic plot premise, not just some detail. It definitely would bug me! Or is this on purpose, to...

For me without the context it sounded neither true nor like an ideal, because as you say you can't really do that and the phrasing sounded almost like a criticism to me. "Forcing to belief" is not a phrasing I thought someone would use admiringly, or as an ideal. With the context, now it sounds...

Never read the books, but these kind of things also always bug me. I suppose from your phrasing, that part of is cover is not being able to cast spells?