Recent content by Hussar

I know right? How dare I think that the DM forcing pointless npc interactions on the players just to satisfy the DMs sense of plausibility is a bad thing. 🤷

Good grief, I haven't seen that many sock puppet accounts in one thread, like, ever. Sorry, if you have a join date in the Oughts and 7 posts and your first post in almost twenty years is on page 13 of a thread? Yeah, you're not really fooling anyone.

In any case, I've seen FAR more variety between fighters (and fighter adjacent classes like paladins and rangers) in 3e and later D&D than in TSR D&D. Whodathunk that allowing players to pick whatever tickles their fancy and not forcing them into decisions without any ability to change them in...

I've heard these style of campaigns referred to as "string of pearls" campaigns. Yes, you are going to go from Adventure A to B to C in order, but, within each adventure, you have a great deal of freedom. While I understand the resistance to linear adventures, sometimes I think people are too...

Just calling this one out separately. When you let every single argument that argues for the primacy of the author go by and then dig in your heels and argue with anyone who suggests otherwise, it seems a bit hard to accept the idea that you're "not using the argument that way". Particularly...

Ok, look, it's really easy to show why the whole primacy of the author argument doesn't hold any water. Never minding the literary criticism aspect, simply look at the practical. @Maxperson insists that Mary Shelly came up with the specific look and method for the creation of Frankenstein's...

Perhaps you should look at what others have claimed. Because your argument that the author has a privileged position is certainly being used the way I’m talking about. And yes it’s exactly like refusing to believe in evolution. This argument was dead when I was in uni thirty years ago. You...

Except that you’ll find fifteen magic longswords LONG before you find a magic harpoon. So everyone uses a longsword. Cookie cutter characters because certain weapons are flat out better than others.

That's what their doing with 2024 isn't it? Adding in a bunch of weapon effects so there is a reason for taking this vs that weapon. Does add a smidgeon of complication - mostly on the DM's side because it gives me one more thing to track - do claws get this sort of add on effect as well? -...

The idea that there is a "true" meaning of an artwork is something that has been rejected by art criticism for the better part of a century now. So, yeah, it's pretty outrageous. By claiming that there is a "true" interpretation of a work, and even further that this "true" interpretation is...

Because it’s fiction and Fantastic Four deals with different themes than x-men?

The idea that there is a “true meaning” to a work of art is a very, very bad idea for just so many reasons.

Except that because the weapons are written the way they are, every fighter uses exactly the same weapons. Specs in longsword, two weapon fighting and shortsword with longbow coming up, typically from the bonus from a 9 Int. It resulted in far less differentiation.

Really? She created the appearance of the Monster? All aspects of the Monster were 100% original and not building upon any earlier works whatsoever? The story of Frankenstein is 100% original? Ovid might be rather surprised to hear that. Then again, I suppose you think that Mrs. Shelly...

Good grief. Why?