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The Elf's ears aren't nearly large enough for the culture that made Record of Lodoss War. ;) Otherwise, I like it.

Nah, his player is just too lazy to read the spell part of the PHB. 😜

Except the Aarakocra are aactually first.

Ummm…Aasimar, not Aarakocra. Different made-up double-A name heritage. 🤣

They actually also said in one interview that they tried to have all the characters played by a different "type" of player. I'm not 100% sure about all the rest (what follows are my guesses), but I know they said that Edgin's is the charismatic "casual player" who hasn't paid too much attention...

Personally, I'd go with the latter. The animal-speaking thing is one of the oldest gnome traits, both in folklore and D&D. The illusion thing is, as was pointed out, a little too close to elves.

And the counterpoint is that while Michael Jordan may be a 20th-level "real world" basketball player, in D&D terms, he doesn't crack the mid-single digits of physical ability. A D&D fighter that's scratching at 10th-level is probably like...Batman, or Captain America (take your pick). It's just...

Agree to disagree. I don’t remember Howard’s Conan going toe-to-toe with dragons the size of Smaug, or Sorcerers who can step outside time, but maybe I’m misremembering. Am I?

And we really shouldn’t pigeonhole fighters as the mundane class. An 18th level fighter is not, in any way, mundane. In D&D terms, the highest level fighter in real world history would probably be about 6th-level. IF that. High single/low double digits is like Captain America or Conan.

Given his power set, they need to actually let him lose for the stakes to be 100% believable, or show us the pathos Clark feels for innocent bystanders. I’ll also fully own that Christopher Reeve totally sold that. Most Supes actors since? Not so much. Which they also heavily damaged by...

In other words, we narrate damage on a miss the same way we narrate 90% of hits. Got it. 👌👍😜

As an aside, the best thing DC could have done for Superman would have been to have a villain actually kill Lois, Lana, Jimmy, Perry or someone else Clark really cares about, and never bring them back, Gwen Stacy style. Then we’d believe it was possible for Clark to actually lose hard, and the...

This is honestly why I ditched DC years ago. The problem with Superman isn’t his backstory, or motivation, it’s his out of control power set. It’s the same problem I have with “god of prep” Batman. I like rooting for the scrappy underdog, or at least a hero who can be hurt. Kal-El…can’t. At...

100% agreed. Perhaps my post wasn’t clear. I feel that fighters emulating Beowulf, Hercules and Cu Chulainn is totally appropriate. What level at which a D&D fighter should achieve those lofty heights is going to cause a lot of debate, but I’m totally here for it. 👍

Oh, no doubt, but it might not be that high. Looking through Storm Front, the highest level spell I can pinpoint is Magic Circle, so that pegs Harry’s level as at least 5th (which is when Wizards get 3rd-level spells). It doesn’t seem like a new thing for him though, which is why I pegged his...

I would strongly suggest glancing through Harry's magical feats in Storm Front with an eye to trying to pinpoint what level of D&D Wizard he is. I think you might be surprised. I'm not saying he's a novice, but I'd only pinpoint Harry in the first book at around 6th or 7th-level in D&D terms...

So, I had abut 20 years of (mostly unarmed) martial arts (Kenpo, Boxing, Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, some other stuff) before I took up sword-fighting. And one of the absolute shocking realizations to me about the latter is that the style of fighting is very different. When fighting with a sword...

Butcher's Dresden notes that "Cold Iron" is like someone saying you filled someone full of "hot lead." It's not some weird kind of material, the phrase itself is just poetic license. Fey Courts in that world don't deal well with anything that has iron in it of any kind, so no steel for the fey...

Certainly. And that's one of the ways I think of hit point loss. It's a bruise, an ankle twist, or whatever. I already narrate hit point loss by higher-level characters as them getting nicks, scratches, bruises and glancing blows, rather than straight misses, because otherwise things like...

That's an interesting question. I don't have a ton of experience fighting in heavy armor, but I've fought against people wearing it. Armor actually does a pretty good job of warding off most injuries, so D&D's better armor means a hit is pretty close to a miss is actually surprisingly...