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And Thanos was inspired by Darkseid.

The thing about corporate layoffs is this - it's not about personal performance in any way. It is simply a function of having made a budget guess at the beginning of the year and the actual revenue of the year not meeting that forecast. In modern capitalism, you either make more money than you...

When it comes to things like this, what the past two years have taught me is we should never lose sight of a fundamental truth. People are not prejudiced/bigoted/misogynistic/homophobic/transophobic, ideas are. We were not born to hate; we learned it. And once we stop internalizing ideas as if...

I say this with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek, but from a certain point of view, they're all overrated. Gygax: Hey... instead of playing the French vs the British, why don't we play elves vs orcs? Arneson: Hey... instead of armies on the battlefield, why don't we play individuals in a...

To the best of my knowledge, He-Man never displayed that power, no. I believe She-Ra did at one point. So you could look at it one of two ways. You could say "Power of Greyskull" and "Honor of Greyskull" would be different oaths with different associated powers, or you could just lump them...

Honestly, I would lean into the pre-DC, original minicomic version of Eternia ("Miniternia") which really amps up the sword and sorcery aspect of the setting. The Great Unrest destroyed civilization as we know it and the countryside is dotted with ancient relics and powerful technology of old...

Reading the preview I got a definite London during the blitz if the Nazis also surrounded the city and those Nazis were also zombies and by the way it has been going on for years vibe.

I wouldn't presume someone consumed with pettiness and vindictiveness would stop to think about what you're going to do after your finished burning everything to the ground. But I do agree that most likely we're dealing with another unfortunate case of someone living inside an echo chamber long...

I haven't read the whole thread so apolgies if this has come up already, but part of me wonders if this isn't in some small way a deliberate attempt by Ernie to carpet bomb the Gygax name/TSR legacy out of spite in an effort to destroy any value it would bring to Gail.

Oh, no reason whatsoever. Just... don't Google that topic 😬

I find it refreshing that this thread turned into an argument over clothing in fantasy RPGs and not an angry tirade over the lazy race-swap they did on Harkon himself. At least with the gender-swapped Darklords they appear to have massaged their backstory enough to make them unique takes on the...

For my playthrough of Curse of Strahd, I staged the adventure as the mid-point of the larger campaign set in a variation of Masque of the Red Death where 1890s Earth nations were replaced with Core Domains that saw the PCs are friends of Alanik Ray following the trail of his letters about an...

You are totally forgetting about the nuclear reactor the subterranean shadow elves are building at the behest of their patron, the ancient nuclear physicist turned immortal Rafiel. And that, essentially, the "degenerative sickness" their race is dealing with is radiation sickness.

Hmm... Svirfneblin Slayer with the Fey Beast Tamer theme riding his Owlbear as a mount wielding a lance in two hands with Spear Expertise. 2d10+13 damage on a successful charge at 1st level. Who wouldn't want to play gnomish owlbear cavalry?

This is a special case. Battle Cleric Lore, the class feature is what grants you proficiency with scale armor. This is separate from the cleric class's armor proficiency. So a hybrid cleric that picks up Battle Cleric Lore gets the entire class feature - including scale armor proficiency...

The artificer's healing mechanic already handles this nicely. You give the ally an infusion with a flat bonus, they choose when to turn it into temp HP as a free action. It doesn't cost them a healing surge. After the combat, everybody sits down and decides who spends the healing surge to...

Thread Necromancy! Looking back at the 2e Planescape art, I've concluded two things... 1. I really don't like DiTerlizzi's style. 2. Upon further review, 4e's unified tiefling style was a good thing. Now, I'd probably tone down the tail and horns a touch, but they at least had a defining...

I feel a little better knowing that. It just seems like with most of the level 1/2 monsters only having a +2 to hit, you're only hitting the average PC ~30-35% of the time (On a 13/14+). What I'm trying to grok is if this is a knee-jerk overreaction to the HP change, or by design to make 1st...

I can see the point about disliking class abilities that trigger based off the die roll. It's kind of a drag when you just don't know what your attack is going to do when you hit until after you roll. But, to be fair, you do get to choose what your randomly triggered options are. Given that...

My playtest group just got to 2nd level. I've mostly thrown a collection of 1st level monsters at them (re-skinned goblins and kobolds so there's a little variety) plus an owlbear. It feels like monsters simply can't hit in this playtest. Granted, my group went a little odd and they're all...