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That is a reasonable position to take, support, and argue for, but hardly a universally agreed-upon truism (and the 'objectively' adjective certainly is up for debate). I'm sure every course on analysis and critique has days dedicated to the subject alone (along with defined jargon and...

There is always that risk. Players* tend to want to turn any in-game resource into a component of the primary game loop of interest. However, almost as compelling a tendency as that seems to be a desire to find efficiencies. Making the GP <--> maGicP exchange rate inefficient somehow** is...

You can also just make exchange between the two inefficient. Players are a lot less likely to spend plot funds on character build funds activities if they only get 3:4 value for doing so.

So, once again, we have a tempest in a teapot. First and foremost, I just don't see this as some major event in the first place, regardless of the appropriateness of the action. This is a series of plastic trinkets that didn't exist* a few days ago and, barring us or someone we know actually...

I think it is worthwhile to remember that the heyday of composite bows* were a decidedly different gameplay loop. All warrior-types needed as much Str and as much Dex as they could get*, everyone made do with what they had**, and pretty much everyone used both bow and sword. Just adding...

Within the context of 5e, I would just make them have roughly the same stats as the existing bows, just with Str as the governing attribute. Str builds don't (necessarily) need to be better archers than Dex builds, they just need a ranged option that facilitates multiattack (without feats) and...

I agree with the statements of others similar to 'if a group can't handle a little break, it isn't that cohesive to begin with.' However, social momentum is a thing, and if you take more than a few weeks off, people do find other things to do (and might not come back). As a suggestion in that...

I think you could have avoided a lot of this by titling your thread "Would it be beneficial for D&D 'influencers' to actively acknowledge other games?" or "I wish D&D 'influencers' acknowledged other games more frequently." Framing the discussion in terms of need-tos/shoulds naturally leans the...

Mind you, the existence of the wargames (and Braunsteins, FKS, etc.) that inspired D&D in the first place suggests that people find tracking funds and properties and the like can be a form of entertainment. However, knowing that most D&D players (particularly after a certain point) weren't...

The Deck of Many Things.

Oh look, an inter-edition comparison thread is morphing into whether 4e was the best or worst or what it really was. Bet this one will finally resolve the matter. Anyway, some of my takes: Barbarian -- I think I'm going to say 3e*. Mind you, 'the guy who rages' is a specific subset of...

Re: Wesely, the Brontes, Free Kriegsspiel, every child since forever -- We do this every time we discuss the pre-LBB era. And kind of like Gary vs. Dave, it always seems like there's a tension about who gets the right amount of credit. In this case whether someone gets to much or too little...

I am a strong proponent of what soviet mentions. If the fundamental thing a character is good at is gated behind a specific attribute, then all members of that character-type will have that stat very high*. If other game-central components like HP and vital saves also are gated by attributes...

It is an interesting choice, as the 90s cartoon was the one place* where they didn't include the stuff where Scott was the dick. Not sure why they wanted to bring it into the animated world so long after it became immaterial elsewhere**. *arguably also the early 2000s movie trilogy, where he had...

I like the movie itself well enough. Between Joaquin Phoenix in the first movie and Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, the part that I'm not looking forward to is a whole new batch of internet memes. Apparently everyone identifies with the joker and they can use their most iconic lines to...

If you include folklore and myth, it's a pretty mixed bag (but generally not studious guy with books very often). Ancient societies like Egypt and Babylon a lot of magic is interwoven with priestly rites or with trafficking with demons or the like. The later seems very warlockish, but there's...

That space is full of ceiling, you can't teleport to it. They are (presumably) teleporting to as close to the ceiling as they can and grabbing it just like if they were climbing up to the ceiling on a ladder (or at least at the top of a jump to the ceiling, where they have no net downward...

I'd agree. There's less self-selection into the social categories of old, but there are real personality types. There are computer, math, and hard-science people that are shy or introverted*. I think that will always be the case because those qualities don't strongly inhibit the exploration of...

Uranium emits a lot more alpha and beta radiation than gamma. Water absorbs the first two handily. It also attenuates gamma better than you might think (super dense and high-atomic-number material like lead only provide 20-30% better protection-by-mass than less dense material like water and...

The answer is always talk to your DM. However, in this instance, there's no specific reason to think otherwise. They are transported to an area where a constant ongoing transit mode they have (they have an innate climb speed) is applicable, and thus would normally be able to use it. If not, and...