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Pirates of Caribbean are, by today's standard, old movie franchise. First one is 22 years old, last one is 8 years old. Black Sails are...

For many people, playing pirates without ships and maritime shenanigans isn't playing pirates. I will be first one to tell people if...

Naval combat doesn't need to be center focus and main theme, but players in pirate campaign usually expect at least some action on the...

And, technically, the weird D&D streaming channel is part of Amazon Prime as well -- although it takes some real work to find it --...

I think the trajectory has always been toward trying to create consistency from the chaos of early D&D. Even much maligned THAC0 is an...

Incidentally, one of the favors WotC (well, Ryan Dancey, who should probably have a statue of him in Waterdeep or something) did by...

3E added a unified resolution system, commonly shorthanded as the "d20 system," in which you roll a d20, add relevant bonuses, and...

But you don't base the game mechanics around the one power gamer. Most people are not min-maxers, just like most video game players are...

Interestingly, I think this might explain what happened with Conjure Elementals, or whichever one it was that everyone was freaking out...

Commentary as I'm listening to it: "Blue Magic" design was part of what informed the design of Shield and Counterspell, since Mearls is...

In their defense, we (the folks who playtested D&D Next) really stressed that as something we wanted to be possible.

That and they just assumed people would be fighting lots of tightly clumped rats/goblins at level 5.

Oh! Ok, so he’s not saying that they didn’t intentionally overtune blast spells, but rather that their initial math probably lowballed...

It's a really good point and in a lot of ways was right in front of us the whole time. Focus fire is better than spreading out damage in...

The judgement in these posts is strong. People make mistakes all the time.