My Friday night group started playing 2024 rules a couple of months ago. Also made the change from Roll20 to Foundry VTT, so it’s been a little bit of a learning curve for the group.

I absolutely love Weapon Mastery. It’s a mechanic that is long over due. Haven’t been playing long enough to say what could be done better about it, as so far it’s been pretty good across the classes. I play a Rogue Soul Knife and having Vex, in order to get Sneak Attack damage every turn is really effective. Plus, as a Rogue I can use tactics more individualized for my character.

The lack of flanking giving advantage was annoying… At first. With that said, it has forced the party to actually engage in tactics that didn’t just involve lining up in a row.

So far so good… Just waiting for everything to go behind multiple paywalls due to Hasbro having a bad quarter. I really tried pushing my group to go to Pathfinder after the License dust up, but was overridden. My group is more important to me than the stupidity of Hasbro, so 2024 is what we play.

Hard… AGREE on this one.

Why in the holy Tiamat didn’t they just call it 6e? Got to be edgy or cringy…

Commoner Adventurer: All stats are 10. You start the campaign at level 0, no class. Throughout the campaign, the characters attain a class based on their actions.

Wrong class for the race: Halfling Barbarians, Half-Orc Wizard, etc. This can be a lot of fun, as instead of having an optimized character that can deal a lot of damage, you have to think through things and come up with strategies. I personally have always liked playing characters that are small that have to use their wits to survive in combat. Oh, I like playing a tank once in a while. Currently, I’m in two different sessions. In one, I’m playing a Dragonborn Cleric that has served as the melee support for the party’s paladin. The other session I’m playing a halfling rogue Soul Knife that rides the barbarian into battle. I have a lot more fun with the Rogue.

Guy who runs Plex on a Ubuntu container on Proxmox.

Reddit who?

I am friends with someone that worked at TSR during the 2e days (he’s not mentioned in the video). The only thing he had to say about Gary Gygax, was this: “Gary owes me money.” He did not have a lot of positive things to say about his time at TSR.

My family watches several Youtube channels on the main HTPC. It had Chrome for them to use, as that is what the kids and my wife are familiar with from school/ work. Then this BS started. I use Firefox on my personal PC and have yet to have a problem.

So I dumped Chrome off of the HTPC.

It would be amusing if Chrome lost a ton of market share to Firefox and other browsers.

I do the same as averyfalken, just run everything in the browser.

No you won’t get 4k, but it does work for 1080P. You can run the Plex client on PC for 4k media.

If you need 4k, then I can see your point. My TV is 1080P, so the browser works just fine.

Personally, I like having a full fledged PC connected to my TV. Currently I’m using a Beelink T4 running Ubuntu. The PC is under my direct administrative control, so no surprises with ads or other things.

Power consumption may be slightly higher than an NVIDIA Shield or Roku, but at 24w at full tilt for the Beelink it cannot be that much more.

The same Beelink machine comes with Windows 10 as well, if you’d rather have Windows.