Salutations~!

That’s exactly my interpretation as well.

Born and raised in New Jersey.

No.

I agree with this completely.  Tyrion has always been my favorite character because he’s the most interesting person to me.  I was really worried that he was going to be executed because this was what? His third time as a prisoner?  

This is the language we should be using from now on at A.V. Club. Didn’t like the season finale of Lost? It subverted your expectations.

i really thought arya’s face-wearing ability would come in again somwhere at the end or her learning that was all for nothing.  i was also hoping her mentor would return - a man likes callbacks & likes to take guns from the mantlepiece & use them.

Their viewership is comprised completely of patrons of sports bars, waiting for their connecting flight.  Like CNN, but for sports. 

that's what I've also been telling people. an unreliable history book from that era is more the rule than the exception.

As someone who studied history, it’s not uncommon to find that the official histories from the middle ages, ignore people that we know were ultimately very important because whoever was writing them was trying to make someone look better. Tyrion was hand, but he also had a lot of not great decisions and working for…

I think the best answer to the rope question is: don’t treat it as an attack, but rather an action that has a difficulty rating (i.e. what they need to roll to succeed), whether there are any positive or negative modifiers (is it a magic blade? Is it really strong rope?), then roll the dice and move on. I find this is…

Dammit. That’s what I originally had, but I edited it. I guess my prize for second-guessing my own brilliance is being flipped off by Mister Rogers on the Internet for all eternity.

I can empathize with what you’re feeling. I was a self-trained DM who had been in maybe two games of D&D before I ran it myself. Before I ran sessions for my friends I obsessed over the rules but never was able to retain all of it. And it turns out that worked fine for us and I never needed to get all that into the…

Re: The Rope example; in the intro to the 5e rules book they mention that the rules are meant to facilitate fun. If they don’t do that then they’re supposed to be ignored. Run something that sounds fair in their place. What turns out to actually be fair requires some DM’ing experience, but you figure it out as you go.…

Yep, the only criticism I hear about it is the NPC are all fairly boring. But to me, that is a good thing for a starter set. Interesting NPC often become a burden to run for a new DM and the game flows more naturally if you start with a generic template and let the DM and players craft a personality to an NPC…

I would say the 5E Starter Set has one of the best examples of a sandbox campaign that I’ve ever seen. It’s a great starting point, especially at $20.

Yeah, it’s a bit of reading and absorbing. I was rusty myself when I picked it up to run for my son and his friends and cousins for his birthday.  It was still a fun time and they all want to play more.   Hoping as summer starts Scheduled will clear up and it will happen more 

The starter set for 5th edition is actually really well done. It’s got a whole premade campaign and the rules are actually a complete(if bare bones) view of 5th edition.

(I’m getting some miles out of this one)