Recent content by UngainlyTitan

Personally, I think search is much worse now than 5 or 10 years ago, some of it is effect of changes in the algorithm to favour advertisers and SEO efforts of vendors to game to search terms. That aside, some horror tropes are more difficult to pull off, the cut off from authorities or...

I have not tried it, do not see why, in general it would not work but I would operate from one version as the default rules for the DM to adjudicate actions as otherwise the cognitive load would drive you mad.

Better ways to organize stuff or link to somewhere organised is big issue with Maps and campaign management on D&DBeyond

I agree that mysteries are a good way to go but it seem you are saying that a lot of seed will fall on barren ground. In that a lot of these clues will be missed or ignored. It also sounds like it needs the players that pick up on these easter eggs and look for them and sounds like it is awesome...

I would say oral history is differently unreliable. A lot depends on the number of cultures it has passed through before it got to you. A lot also depends on who wrote it down and for what reason.

This tends to be my approach also.

Some people simply do not like lore, just like they do not like history. It is why so many that liked Lord of the Rings bounce of the Silmarillion. That said, I think that rpgs are a bad medium for lore, especially for players. Unless the players are into lore themselves and do homework...

I never said to use unreliable lore to make a success into a fail but unless you really screwed up and misrepresented a vital clue or element of the main plot (in which case you should own up, but minor nitpicks, historians make mistakes as do DMs). You could even own to the mistake but still...

Not necessarily, the names of kings/queen have on occasion be chiselled out of the record (literally in the case of one Pharoh. at least the public facing record) and I have come across references that the archaeological record of contemporary writings on divinatory bone shards being at odds...

You can call it whatever you like but if you do not call it by its name how am I supposed to know what it is? I can see being upset with corporate naming conventions and marketing but it also a community that cannot agree as to what "railroading" means. Communication here can be difficult...

Sounds like the usual Corporate BS, either senior management were not inclined to fund it, "Wadda ya mean ya need to rewrite the application, looks fine to me" or the dev's did not like the new management style, followed by key people leaving.

Never give them lore straight, filter it through a narrator, Grantus the sage said "...." and the like. Or you recall from your studies that "...." History is often unreliable and contradicts.

Everybody speaking how they like is one thing and I am not denying anybody that, but the owner of a thing gets to name what the thing is called? Do they not?

It is not just money it is ownership. Why would the owner not be entitled to call a thing whatever they want? Why do you get a say? Ok, occasionally a brand owner looses control of a brand , somewhat, "kleenex", "xerox" and the like but it is very rare and what specifically is wrong with WoTC's...

Thanks for these quotes I have long been of the opinion that technical debt was holding back DnDBeyond and that they needed to rebuild the back end to properly support the game and addition of new data. I wonder how much this impacted the development of new features in the game itself. You are...