Recent content by occam

Even in 2e it created "missiles of magical energy".

A technical point: elephants are Huge, so not eligible for Animal Shapes. You could turn the goblins into hippos, though, which have even better AC and HP than elephants. And also, there's room for more goblin/hippos!

I wanted to highlight a few things that I haven't seen brought up in the thread so far: While I get the interpretation of LTH not having a floor, since its effect is described as a "dome" (five times!) in the 2014 rules, one which exists "around and above you", in 2024 it's an Emanation, which...

Spoilers, man! ;)

This seems like the best place to start: https://shopping.newhollandbrew.com/collections/dungeons-dragons-x-dragons-milk

I... really don't understand what you're saying here. The spell save DC is located directly below the spot you place spell cards on the character board: When you say that you thought the save DC "would have been located more towards where the spell cards and spells were, or even at least on or...

If someone wants to get their hands on my precious stones, they're going to have to take me to dinner first. I'll see myself out...

It's worth noting that it hasn't always been this way. In 3e, elves and half-elves had low-light vision (normal vision in dim light, none in darkness), while dwarves and half-orcs had darkvision; while in 4e, all (or essentially all) PC races had low-light vision at best. The two 5e rulesets for...

Yeah, all the Sigil minis that I know of have been offered for free.

Can you source that? What I recall is one instance of a WotC representative using the word "monetization", which some interpreted without evidence to be about online microtransactions, in an address to investors. No customer-directed communication about it, and nothing specifically about...

I get what you're saying, wanting to align narrative and mechanics. But my point was that players already felt the narrative, to the point that many of them misremember the actual mechanics. Why would that be any different now? What would be interesting is if we had player statistics from 2e...

Except that, as demonstrated by numerous posts in this thread, it clearly did. The Dark Sun mechanical baseline, i.e. the thing that worked like normal D&D magic, was preserving magic. Defiling magic has always provided some advantage, or at least a gamble for advantage, over baseline magic. And...

I think the narrative (that arcane magic always defiled, even if you tried your best to minimize that) was so compelling, that over time people's memories have prioritized it over the actual mechanics. Which I get; it's a cool narrative, which twists the usual D&D assumptions, and has become...