Quote from: Opaopajr on Today at 02:10:17 AMMakes 5 minute Short Resting with that and Second Wind a bit overwhelming for my tastes, but keeps Fighters a continuous serious long-term threat. I prefer RAW book 1 hour SR, and let players decide, which they rarely take advantage of short-resters serious throughput advantage by party splitting.)

I've found 20 minute short rests to be a reasonable compromise between the 4e short rest (5 min) and the 5e short rest (1 hour). It's long enough you can't just take it anywhere (even with active monsters looking for you, any reasonably sized dungeon will have some room or another you could hide in for 5 minutes without being found), but not so long that players feel like they're "missing out" by taking one.

Honestly, the biggest mistake with 5e was in tuning the short rest abilities around the idea you'd only take one every other encounter instead of either tuning it so the short rest classes would recharge their stuff for every encounter, or tuning their stuff around daily resources as well.

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Quote from: NotFromAroundHere on Today at 03:05:14 AMWhat's this ? But the opening post of this wonderful thread on reddit, of course.

(quoted for posterity if this thing should disappear)

QuoteOk, I like the Greek Gods, or at least thought I did. But I'm starting to think I need a sanitized version, since they are too problematic in their original form, even for the Black Dog line.

How can I rationalize that they are morally more progressive (in that no means no, among other things) for players at the table. They don't need to be something from a Disney Cartoon, but I want them to feel authentic and believable, while not being HORRIBLE.

Now, on a scale from 0 to brain dead clam, how many neurons did you have to lose to write something like that ? I'm literally speechless.

Note, the original post has now been deleted.

Second, oh, it's for Mage... poster child for Gnostic/Progressive "I reject your reality and substitute my own" and "you're actually a god being held back by the failure of the masses to realize your brilliance" nonsense.

You have to be a braindead moron to embrace that game, and I should know, I spent quite a long period of my stupid youth playing and then running it until I figured out how toxic it was and came back to objective reality. If I could obliterate one OWoD game line so it never existed I'd nuke... Werewolf. But if I had a second, that would be Mage (honestly, with time, I've realized that lorewise the WoD peaked with Hunter's Hunted 1e and everything else with the exception of adding dhampirs has been downhill).

Is Dragonball Biologically Essentialist?

Children. There are many books about the Greek gods that omit the nasty bits and these books are written for children. This person is asking to be coddled like a child.

Not that I agree the nasty bits should be omitted for children. Maybe just presented tastefully. Kids find that stuff interesting.

Bruh, my favorite mythologies are Norse, Aztec, and Japanese. Do you think that Xipe Totec could ever be sanitized?

https://mythopedia.com/topics/xipe-totec

What about Tanuki with their ginormous ballsacks?

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Of course, all of you already know how problematic Norse mythology is, will all the white people and violence and such!

I don't like Greek Mythology a lot, but that's because it's like a never-ending soap opera/reality tv show where so many mortals and demi-gods get awful treatment for being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

I feel bad for the original writer of that post. He/she/it had no chance trying to fit these five words together over three short lines of text:

Problematic
Rationalize
Progressive
Authentic
Believable

It was never going to happen.

Quote from: Opaopajr on Today at 04:30:44 AMAnyway, reddit seems to be redditting, so that's enough reddit for me this year.

Indeed.

QuoteAs long as they can get free advertising from people like Pundit and other reviewers they will keep doing it.

I mean some level of outrage marketing is probably true, but I doubt if in modern very divisive internet it's real advertisement. Outrage reviewers on right side caters and get money from right wingers following them in spiral of outrage - it's like almost independent clockwork wheel - thats slightly pushed by wokes but generally at this point very much is moving on its own.

QuoteWeird since they have de-aging technology to make him look younger.

In Lynch's "Dune" time?

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