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You can keep a hundred boys in jars or whatever it is that Chappell Roan said

The combat system is Dimension 20's biggest problem. 5e's combat drags down the show's pacing for no benefit whatsoever. Combat episodes have one or two semi-important plot moments, whereas non-combat episodes have plot and character developments happening constantly. Most of D20's combats can be skimmed through or skipped entirely. If you want a system that helps you tell stories and develop characters, the combat rules should also help you do that.

Yep. The problem as I see it is that many people involved in high production quality actual plays want to tell stories where sometimes there are fight scenes, when D&D as a game is aimed at telling stories where the story emerges out of the fight scenes (and other challenges). If the fights in a D&D game feel vestigial or that you could skip over them and the narrative wouldn't change then no matter how good the table is at improvising social interactions they're still, emphatically, playing the wrong game.

to my mind it sounds dramatically like Mr Lee Mulligan would be better off running an improvised drama or freeform roleplay - or at most using an fkr-style chance element in key moments - but stapling D&D onto it brings in the audience, so he's stuck with it.

yeah i was gonna say--i think it's impossible to seriously analyze lee mulligan's comments on d&d without recognizing that he has a very straightforward financial incentive to use d&d on his show

Call me treadmill the way this cat walks all over me

the problem with "I need to criticise myself to prepare for other people criticising me" is that it fails to account for the possibilities that a) nobody will criticise you, or b) the people who do criticise you are not people you value the opinions of anyway. I know it feels like a good defence mechanism, but at the end of the day there is a high chance that you're just being mean to yourself for no reason. consider this

All I want to know is if I can have your skull and bones when you die, is that too much to ask for or

*flares my posting tendrils threateningly*

your needs motherfucker do you speak them