Heating on reentry is actually due to compressing the air in front of you, not friction. Falling from orbitall height will absolutely cause you to heat up the air in front of you, even as the air paassing you by is doing you no harm.
Though, if you smash into the atmosphere at orbital speeds, it's probably going to do you some harm as it tries to force you back down to TV.
TTRPGs are games where you create stories, and sometimes those stories are "we did something we shouldn'ta, and someone got ganked". What you're describing is someone reading you a story book.
Well, not every game has Heroic Inspiration, but it still has people that gripe about secret rolls. And of those games that have metacurrencies for rerolls and the like, they're not intended to be used in those situations.
One of my favourite parts about Pathfinder 2e is that items -- magic or otherwise -- are leveled. I can hand out Level 6 weapons to Level 2 characters, and they will feel absolutely legendary.
Until about Level 5, where they start to feel really good.
Until Level 8, where they just feel OK.
This means, yes, I can take the effort to rebalance fights to account for the party's toys, or I can just let them feel like fucking bosses for a few levels, and the challenges they take on catch up to them.
A significant part of the culture that has formed around 5e is about "having it all". And usually by ignoring the (admittedly weak) rules that do exist, rather than exploiting actual gaps. So, you can frankenstein together a caster that has martial proficiency in armour (or even melee weapons), with the only compromise being your capstone abilities (which often are very expendable). And then you can metagame away your shitty social abilities by "roleplaying".
I'm not going to defend 5e -- I genuinely think it's a poorly made game, and place the blame for that entirely on the execuitives -- but the reason why so many people refuse to try something else is because they like the exploits that they believe exist, even though they are totally socially constructed.
I've been listening to the Narrative Declaration playthrough of Kingmaker, and they don't seem to be anywhere near making anyone a king! They seem to have some sort of council-based thaumocracy going, instead!
voroxpete@sh.itjust.works said in Just don't:
> According to the creator - who vociferously defended this stance claiming it was based on “research” - bisexual men like me don’t exist.
I, too, spent much time 15 year ago sitting at the back of the bus reading Savage Love on my way to work. Research scientists, unite!
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I was going to do this to my table. We only have 2 PCs currently (my wife and stepson), so I gave them a GMPC guide who was supposed to be the BBEG in disguise.
But they came to love the GMPC, and I can't do that to them, so now he's just their pet human.
This is functionally what Fellmarrow is doing in Narrative Declaration's Kingmaker 2e actual play.