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Because our history has shown that those with power tend to tightly control that power—whether it's the wealthy, religious elite...

That point is magic. Because you cannot even remotely adjudicate hit point damage of meat vs luck when magic missile auto hits and a...

Not if they're playing using 2014 rules. Spiritual Weapon only became concentration in the 2024 revision.

AD&D had tables for weapon-vs-armor-class hit modifiers that could have been used to ~address such issues, but that got dropped by the...

Guns did not fit in OD&D or AD&D because even though the rules, for a war game, are fast and loose and abstract...they work on a...

And that fits history, so it is easily understood. Muskets arent as good a weapon as almost any war bow. They just arent. In any way...

Banishment also targets a fairly uncommon save (charisma); and is very useful against a caster from the same plane, because when it...

honestly, banishment is useful even if the target isn't extraplanar. removing an enemy from a combat for up to a minute is huge...

Oh, Also, this is part of why i was advocating for ‘magic guns’ earlier, as it completely sidesteps the issues of needing to introduce...

"Outer Worlds" did not impress me in terms of Obsidian's ability to write an internally consistent setting with plausible, complex...

You're assuming that any given smart alchemist (the occupation most likely to stumble upon a formula for gunpowder or its equivalent...

Some consideration is still required; because once you allow the introduction of something gunpowder-like, players are probably going to...

my problem with just "slap advantage on it" is that it's so...binary. you either have it or you don't (plus in that case specifically it...

The humanoid pterodactyl looks at you and says: "I don't want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!"

I guess the question that needs to be answered is twofold for any innovation. "How would someone create it?" and "Would it be worth the...