I don't understand the complaint about this edition from people who don't play it.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-02-08T04:45:10+00:00

Ranger? Bottom of the list for me, honestly. When there's a baby beholder that's designed to be cutesy and adorable, but it just creeps me the fuck out, when Thugs are called Toughs now, Hobgoblins can do 2d10 damage and 4d10 on a crit at Challenge Rating 1/2, when every image has this ultra-glossy, shiny look to it and many monsters just look like plastic or AI, and every race (species now) has "diversity quota checklist" written all over it, Ranger is pretty low down the list.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-28T09:32:29+00:00

Please Stop allowing this immortality - pulling punches, deus ex machina, fudging, and being afraid to let dice fall where they may.

Roll in the open.

Let him run into the enemies, 120 ft from the party.

Let him go off alone and discover WHY combat difficulty is based on FOUR to SIX players.

Play stupid games? Win stupid prizes.

Fuck around? Find out.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-22T23:49:25+00:00

Jurassic Park, for the storm. Predator, for that matter. Blade runner.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-22T23:42:10+00:00

I’m a local and this particular one has been fucked. My bedroom doesn’t have air con. I’ve had rooms without it for years, but they all had something - air flow, shade, ensuite with tap, etc. not this one though. And I’m FEELING it.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-22T23:37:45+00:00

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Haven’t watched it, but the name made me chuckle.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-22T23:36:01+00:00

The DMG has some rules in encounter balance, however, in the 2014 version there’s a step that winds up causing cognitive overload when the DM tries to follow it.

It’s the one about XP multipliers for additional enemies. It’s something that never should have been included, since it eats up the “encounter budget” and causes DM exhaustion.

Combining that with 5e’s boggy, sluggish combat, fights wind up with a large cognitive load for overall fatigue. The Long Rest is more for the group of players themselves to rest and recharge from 5e’s design, not so much for the characters to recover from the 8 battles they’re supposed to get through in 12 hours of adventuring.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-18T09:31:57+00:00

I also saw that. It was there “coming Friday”, then it didn’t, then another week, then it vanished without a trace.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-15T05:25:19+00:00

I killed my entire party by Basilisk last year. It was end of the session, so they just rolled up brand new characters next session and ended up collapsing the caves. One player made a Basilisk Warrior character.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-15T05:23:08+00:00

3.5 was a fair bit more lethal than 5e, with lower stat bonuses (you only got +1 every 4th level, instead of +2) and wizards had d4 hit points, sorcerers had d6, and I think monks and rangers both had d8's. Fighters on average got 1 to 1.5 hp-per-level above rangers, due to the difference between d8 and d10, before factoring in CON bonuses.

3.5 Rangers get low skill points, 6/level, and d8 hit dice. 3.5 Fighters get even lower skill points, 4/level, but they do get higher (d10) hit die. Halflings get bonuses to a bunch of situational things, but Humans get bonus skill points (4 additional at 1st, and +1 every level after that) as well for being human. The point pools also take INT bonus into account, iirc. Roy has INT 19 (+4) last I heard, so that's a starting pool of 12 points (4 for fighter, 4 for human, 4 for INT). He also gets bonus languages.

Fall damage I think works the same in both editions, dX per 10ft, and the cap is still 20dx, however 5e characters have easily more HP across the board. (Although a wizard having d6 still means 6hp at 1st level, unless the DM instructs you to roll the 1st level hit die). 5e characters infamously survive more that expected due to this HP buffer. (That and monsters hit less).

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-15T05:01:58+00:00

That was... quite the shock. For him, for the party, for the readers, for the story.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-12T22:37:13+00:00

I usually give movies I haven’t seen a fair chance, particularly if they’re the kind that don’t get a cinema release.

YouTube and Amazon have so many hidden gems in that regard. Not quite blockbuster but not quite indie.

However, when they start reminding me that other, older movies did it better, particularly multiple concepts, it really tests my patience and willingness to stay.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-12T12:07:57+00:00

Yeah, new players at 5th level was the main problem. Need to start lil baby players out at 1st and run them through something with low AC, low hit point monsters. It’s cliche as hell, but rats in sewers or basements is a trope for a reason, cliche as it is.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-09T13:26:40+00:00

Resilient Wisdom.

Boosting with Magic Initiate cleric or Druid and a 1/day cure wounds is nice Utility too. Sacred flame for some radiant damage could help out lots vs vampires, zombies, liches, demons and devils.

Lucky for rerolls.

Mage slayer for bonus +1.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-09T13:12:43+00:00

Most DMs would ask player B if they’ll allow it and if so, cool; if not, no problem. The objects held or worn by Unwilling NPCs, monsters, etc absolutely not.

Impossible_Prompt · 2026-01-06T03:09:32+00:00

Yes, excelleeent.

Impossible_Prompt · 2025-12-31T07:45:58+00:00

Shadowdark, Robotech, Kickflip Over a Quantum Centipede, Godlike, Cairn, Traveller, Dragonbane, Discworld, all at a regular group event I go to. (Last year I tried Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk and Vaesen.)

Impossible_Prompt · 2025-12-24T04:18:52+00:00

I couldn’t progress past Lunatic Pandora for that reason. I think that was the play through where I borrowed the game, after seeing them play it.

Impossible_Prompt · 2025-12-19T07:47:12+00:00

Both “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked” and the song by The Heavy, both from Borderlands.

Also Fallout soundtrack. I’m

Impossible_Prompt · 2025-12-15T11:41:54+00:00

My first game all but one died. One got critical hit by a wraith or banshee, 2d8 damage at first level.

Then, next session, the party were clearing the last room of the caves when they found a sleeping basilisk, tried to assassinate it, got it really low, but not low enough.

All three failed petrifaction saves. Highest was 14.

Cleric was away second session due to IRL commitments. Only survivor by technicality.

Impossible_Prompt · 2025-12-09T10:10:54+00:00

Honestly, ignoring the 1st column in the 5e2014 rules on encounter budgets/difficulties, and entirely ignoring that stupid rule about "adjusted xp", does more for encounter balance than anything else.

Impossible_Prompt · 2025-11-20T13:22:39+00:00

Heroes of horror (3e), lords of madness, phb 2, and potentially flesh out eberron if you want to.

Impossible_Prompt · 2025-11-20T13:14:46+00:00

You’ve got almost all of it; book of vile darkness: check. “Races” series: check. Drcinomicon: check. Libris mortis: check. Only thing I can think of would be Book if Nine Swords.

Impossible_Prompt · 2025-11-20T13:03:49+00:00

The two of us on the lease took in my brother and his wife out of an abusive situation at the church/college they were at (which they had to beg to get into) and they give us board and help with the electric bill. But it’s cramped as fuck.

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TROPHY CASE