Well sure but also the best DMs know the dice rolls have to matter some of the time.  You have to blend that into keeping the story rolling.  

Well sure but also the best DMs know the dice rolls have to matter some of the time.  You have to blend that into keeping the story rolling.  

The Master Race meme of 2023 really is no longer PC vs. Console.

Play how you want, not the point. When you start comparing a way of playing to another way of playing though you invite critique on the accuracy (or inaccuracy as the case is here) of your comparison.

When someone fails particularly hard, a good DM will often figure out another way for the players to move forward.

I mean you can definitely do the D&D equivalent, but that’s just a re-roll, and the fact is when you have to resort to that everyone secretly knows it’s kind of lame even if no one says it.

They are indeed, but that’s not where my criticism is. My criticism is that Claire is trying to compare save scumming to a practice in D&D that adds more depth and fun to the playthrough. The appropriate thing to compare save scumming to is what it actually is, which is being given a re-roll, which is boring and lame.

I mean, I’m mostly joking here. My main point is that you should be honest about what you’re doing otherwise it’s just kind of silly.

I’d argue that save scumming in Baldur’s Gate 3 feels very much akin to tweaking a rule in D&D that you don’t like, or letting a failed die roll translate into softer outcomes

Is the Exorcist loving priest fleeing to Italy to join the same Satanic sex cult that Amanda Knox was in?

I think it’s important to separate “Should Spears have been placed in a conservatorship under the laws of the state of California in the first place” from “Should she have remained in that conservatorship under her father’s care and for as long as she was”.

Okay, that’s maybe fair, I’d amend it to say “bad or weak”.  Some people don’t have the strength to say “no” when they should or to end a relationship that they should.

The key thing there is Lahaina. The mayor did in fact say not to go there.

Funnily enough it would seem that Spears’ fans are questioning her mental capacity in an even more fundamental way than the bozos clamoring for her dad to be able to stuff her full of lithium and stick an IUD in her.

I thought I simply wouldn’t cope without the ethical handrails, but it turns out I’m loving it.

In this case though, imagine how different the discourse would be about men’s and women’s soccer. Women’s soccer would have long been revered and only just now suffered it’s first setback.

Hardy har, a spelling error. Meanwhile down in South America they know how to deal with players who cause their national teams to lose in an embarrassing fashion.

You know, in other countries, they respect the sport more than we do. Here in America, the USWNT news, and people divide along their normal culture war battle lines to discuss what it means, why it happened, and whether the players were respectful.

the man’s wife, who allegedly called the actress a “lunatic.”

I thought they gave her the Oscar because she did such a perfect job of portraying someone that every parent knows and both loves and hates at the same time. Set aside this particular case where we might be talking about out and out fraud for a second, every person with parents knows a Leigh Anne Tuohy and most of us,…