Recent content by actionman

@Endie you're being rude, I don't care why, it's none of my business. I edited because I added more info as I thought of it. Done with this side discussion now.

I don't care how many people buy that pos, my point was that D&D keeps changing rulesets. 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e, 5.5e, and now a possible 6e, which all require the playerbase to buy new books for each edition, this is not a firm foundation. D&D's fanbase are loyal to the D&D brand, not the game...

In the popular D&D village illustration for the 2024 D&D Pride Collection, the beholder's central eye had a particular design instead of a pupil like its other eyes. Funny how the FBI describes a very similar symbol. What a strange coincidence. Coincidences these days. Oh well. I don't...

You heard right. D&D has been a house built on sand since 3rd edition. It's as if their business model is planned obsolescence.

It's going to be hilarious when D&D 6th edition comes out. It's already in the works.

Agreed, skills and stats is what we reference the most, then gear, and we read left to right.

Agreed. These abstractions were offensive, and let's not forget alignment, and these problems were so integral to the game that I couldn't convert a setting like Forgotten Realms to another system. Like T5's abstraction of counting ammunition in combat rounds instead of how much ammunition a...

There was so much "good but bad". Megatraveller: Good, there's more Traveller. Good, there are some great sourcebooks. Good there's some good DGP books. Bad, they smashed the setting. Bad, they smashed the setting with a poorly thought out civil war that didn't make any sense, never...

They've probably been gaming long enough to know what they like, and want to stay with that.

I've tried this a few times. The shortcomings of the AI models most people have access to become apparent very quickly. It's memory is short. The AI forgets context, rules, and instructions. It forgets which characters it's supposed to be playing and what they're like. It is incapable of...

I always start with lasering the crap out of Utoland.

And this still requires a massive infodump.

Reviewed it, waste of time. That FAQ is once again grognards talking to grognards about arguments between grognards. It's worthless to new players. Most of the sections don't answer the questions they pose. They say, "These are the different contradictory opinions people have".

I made a custom character sheet a long time ago. It was for my Aftermath-Phoenix Command conversion. The most important innovation was pre-figuring the Combat Actions at different weights. It wasn't hard because the break points occur at weights like 10 lbs, 20 lbs, and so on. Pre-figuring...