I admit I’m having trouble finding any transcript of the primary source. It’s supposedly an answer she gave during a local convention and it’s been repeated by enough websites citing each other that I don’t know which one was the original.
I’ll keep trying to find it, though.
According to his wife Majel, yes.
Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.
How irresponsible are you that starting an uncontrolled fire with a tea candle is a risk?
When the CPC was losing to the KMT, they did not have more political power. I feel you’re misunderstanding the quote, which is a colorful way of saying that force is the ultimate basis of all political power—which should be obvious from a cursory examination of international politics.
Roddenberry died in 1991, which is well after 1972.
This seems like an opportune time to note that Gene Roddenberry was a Marxist who strongly supported China. He almost certainly thought well of Mao.
15d10 damage on a successful save is still an average of 82.5 damage, or enough to kill a peasant 20.5 times over. I presume the Dex save is being able to find a relatively safe crevasse or something—the key word being “relative”, since they’ll still take enough damage to kill a rhino twice.
Can you imagine an episode where Picard doesn’t agonize over this decision for 22 minutes and ultimately not do it? The guy spared the Borg.
I can vouch for this. I just bought a TNG era uniform from them and it’s quite nice. Got every piece except boots, which they don’t sell.
Scotty’s crew was two people and one of them died; he was the sole survivor. His method has a 50% fatality rate.
I’m fine with that, tbh. The caveat would be they can’t reasonably access those arrows in the middle of combat. Otherwise, it’s just an opportunity cost.
Actually I have to give you credit here as I forgot a balance change I did make: arrows are much heavier. I always found the ~25 gram weight of an arrow in the PHB to be unrealistically low as a proper war arrow IRL weighs more like 80 grams, so in my campaign 20 arrows weigh 3 pounds instead of 1. It makes it harder to carry a fuckton on you at once.
It sounds to me like you run campaigns where you have ready access to ammunition, so sure, maybe it doesn’t matter so much for your group. I run campaigns where it might be five or more long rests between shops. Running out of ammo is extremely possible, and people do consider it as an exhaustible resource.
What’s the worst thing that could happen if you remove tracking of spell slots? I don’t understand the emphasis you’re putting on numbers. It’s very reasonable to expect to run out of arrows in a campaign that includes any element of survivalism.
Players, in my experience, never want to accept an increase in difficulty—but they also get bored when things are too easy. The DM’s job is to create problems to solve, not let the players do whatever they want.
Obviously if nobody in the group wants to track arrows, they shouldn’t have to, but not tracking ammo because it’s tedious is like not tracking spell slots or Channel Divinity for the same reason. Scarcity is a balance consideration.
this is secretly a meme about how mothers are slowly isolated from their friends by a society that expects them to be full-time caretakers and nothing but—to the point that they apparently need an excuse to spend an hour chatting about their life with their peers
You know what it doesn’t offer? Dex save bonuses. 🔥