This works for situations where exact positioning isn’t too important. When want to have AoE spells, move speed, flanking, and battlefield control, it generally because difficult to ensure that the GM and the players have the same picture of the battlefield. Even just drawing it out roughly can help a lot, but pure theatre of the mind really works best when you only care about distance rather than relative positioning and complex battlefield conditions.
Then the chart is just wrong (I know which book it’s in and it is intended to apply to DnD).
If it applies to DnD’s cosmology, than it has to mean with viable offspring, because half-dwarves canonically exist in the Darksun setting and they’re called Muls.
If you’re talking about anything that matters, even if it seems like it’s just personal experiences like love or exploring the world, it’s political to somebody.
Nah. Evil is where the harm your actions do to other people doesn’t stop you from doing it. Neutral is where you wouldn’t put yourself especially at risk or especially out of your way to help others, but you wouldn’t hurt them either, even if it benefited you. Obviously there’s a spectrum there, most neutral people would do harm to others if they had a gun to their head. Enjoying the harm you do unto others is sadism, which is separate from alignment. A good or neutral person can be a sadist, but their morality will prevent them from hurting others even if they enjoy it. In short, sadism provides a motive (of which there are many others), alignment provides the restriction or lack thereof.
Tl;dr if order a village slaughtered to take all their stuff, I don’t care how dispassionate or purely self-interested you are, you’re evil. If you murder people because you’re paid to, and don’t much care about the details, you’re evil.
I’d allow it.
It depends whether you want 00-99 or 1-100. Eclipse Phase, for example, uses 00-99 so that criticals (which are on doubles) are evenly distributed. It compensates by making success only on a roll strictly less than, not less-than-or-equal-to, your target.
If your PC has the ability to turn into a fly, then the game has deliberately given them some amazing stealth and scouting capabilities. I say this is working as intended.
But nothing in the meme relies on it, so as a criticism of the meme it falls flat.
This is true in 5e DnD. Since this is “RPGMemes”, and the meme applies to a lot more RPGs, including editions of DnD other than 5e.
In D&D 5e. In other editions, that would have to be some kind of special ability or simply off the table altogether.
I started my longest-running campaign with a “one-shot”. Part of that was by the publishers’ design. I ran the free module “We Be Goblins” (highly recommended), which involved a pack of goblins searching for more fireworks. The end of that adventure acts as a teaser for the “Jade Regent” adventure path, which I ran to completion with most of the initial group.
In that adventure path, the PCs get to revisit (and drive off) their tribe from the one-shot in the opening act.
This one isn’t up on Socks and Puppets yet? Or is this an older one I’ve forgotten.
One of my Pathfinder characters, Bentithan Flinteye. He’s an evil, but pragmatic, Aasimar psychic warrior, who considers his actions to be for the “greater good”. He’ll use this to justify a lot of things to himself and others, but make no mistake he’s evil and ultimately just wants more power for himself; after all, wouldn’t he be able to do more good with that power? There would be plenty of people who’d think he’s right.
I really like how Razzira says “big bed” rather than “normal bed” here.
There’s a funny thing about Darkvision, since depending on the exact game and edition you’re playing, it doesn’t always even work in dimly lit rooms, only complete darkness. Which gets a bit silly, sometimes.
I think the wonkiest dice I’ve ever played with for this would be Eclipse Phase. It’s a “d100 under skill” system, but uses the number you rolled as degree of success. So it’s like blackjack; rolling high is better, as long as you don’t bust. That difficulty modifier can turn a roll from amazing to awful. It’s not bad, and it’s never caused confusion, it’s just funny.
Just drawing the situation out, even roughly, is already an enormous step forwards from theatre of the mind, and is doing most of the heavy lifting here. It’s also not “theatre of the mind,” like the original poster is implying. It’s a map, just one without grid-spaces or precise distances.