I was in a game where we all played kobolds and lived in a old mine, except during a winter food raid on the local gnomes we managed to break into the mayor’s house and steal the treasury. When they demanded we return the safe we swapped the gold for lead, then they sent adventurers who we bribed with a gold bar each and the knowledge they had been lied to about the number of kobolds they had to fight. In the end we ended up bloodlessly annexing the gnomes and putting them under “oppressive” restrictions and tax burden that ended up better than before we took over accidentally exposed former mayor’s massive embezzlement (In character we still don’t understand what he did wrong, we see it as dragon behavior) which started a pattern. We would scheme and plan evil things but end up being a net good for the area and because our party face was adorable as a sack of kittens no one noticed that both of the planners are evil as fuck

The campaigns I have run rarely see someones first character making it to the end. I am glad to have players who are okay with this.

My next character actually

Pathfinder 2e healing actually heals a substantial amount of hp, so using the actions to do so feels valuable. Additionally, although it still has the same weeble-wobble effect as dnd 5e, it has a condition called Wounded which makes it more dangerous to go down to 0 hp successively, incentivizing PCs to try and stay above 0. The encounter balance in pf2e is also just miles better than Dnd5e. Fabula Ultima is modeled to feel like a JRPG (and does so wonderfully). Because healing is often a staple in those games, that feeling comes through well. Dropping to 0 hp removes you from the combat entirely, so it’s a very bad thing to happen. The numbers are also smaller and tighter. Healing also often targets the whole party.

I can see BitD working well. I considered a 13th Age game, replacing then icons with then Factions, but never did it. We tend to play in homebrew settings anyway, nowadays

It’s a D&D setting about a city built around a tarrasque, constantly harvesting it faster than it can regenerate.

Probably. But some things just don’t make sense no matter how hard you try.

This post did not contain any content.

…you’ll never be seen. Again.

@jjjalljs@ttrpg.network Yeah, the ideas that “I’m not interested in receiving a message, therefore the things I consume have no message” or “this product was inexpensive, therefore the creator has no message” are pretty wild. Sometimes the politics being presented are invisible to the author, and sometimes they’re not. In either case, they’re communicating real messages about the world, what the creator believes is acceptable, and what they believe is not. Not seeing those messages really just means that you thoughtlessly agree with them. Which says more about the consumer than it does the producer.

Exactly! Almost everything in our lives that matters ultimately is reliant and depends on politics and policy. When people say “I don’t really care about politics,” what they are really saying is they don’t like thinking at all.

I think you overestimate how many people are gonna care about that kind of things when their lives are at stake. Rats are not that rare or unusual.

Sounds like the real problem was not your strategy but the fact that this weapon was very much not scaling with you powerlevel and really unbalanced.

Well, tell us some stories.

This post did not contain any content.

This rule has been in the book ever since the PHB first released. If this was something you didn’t use, you either missed it or played a different edition.

I hate that this pun only works in English.

That was a surprisingly disturbing read…

I’m afraid I never played the module. What’s down there?

Pretty much, yes. I also think it’s not necessary for characters not to become better in all abilities even as the game goes on, but I generally like that characters typically continue to have weaknesses as they level up. Th unfortunate part is that those weaknesses are a lot less punishing for some classes then for other.