Recent content by BB Shockwave

What the heck is even Itch? I literally never even heard of it, but from the name, it must be unpleasant. :P That name makes it seem like it is one of those creepy "Elsagate" gross out flash games. Okay, so who the hell are Collective Shout? Some NGO? Why would two of the biggest bank card...

Why would Strahd want an heir? He is A: immortal, B: stuck forever in the Domains of Dark. He does not need an heir. Looking at these characters on the cover just shows me how little this generation knows about classic Hammer and Universal horror movies, or the books that that inspired...

That's not Tiamat. That's an Elemental Cataclysm, a new monster in the 2025 Monster Manual Frankly not shedding any tears this got cancelled. The character designs are like in Dragon Age Veilguard and really do not fit a Faerun setting - they would be OK in Critical Role though. But the...

I guess you never played 3E, Huge and larger Dragons could simply land ON YOU and pin enemies to the ground, damaging them every round and keeping them immobilized? Hard to cast spells when a 10 ton Dragon is sitting on your head. :D Nobody would tell her that. But I also do not think that...

I still dislike the new 2025 Dragon designs, which the book partially uses... I say partially as it seems they are reusing old art from 3E and other sources too. But one thing does make me happy - the Sapphire Dragon looks exactly like in Fizban's. That gives me hope they will not update the Gem...

Maybe, just maybe, I know, stupid idea, we should just conduct business without caring what political views the other person has? If I asked every person I sell to on Ebay what he thinks about minorities I'd probably never conduct any business. :P

Agreed. I wish we were back to lore where a full page was written about all the creatures. I found the lore in the new manual to be ridiculously short for some creatures, and the tables are of little use. Others though have a lot more lore than in 2014. So it is a very mixed bag. Personally, I...

Good move to add them back. You cannot just put a Priest stat block on a Drow and say that's a Priestess of Lolth. They have pretty specific powers and weapons, like tentacle rods and Yochlol summoning. Hope this is done not just for Drow, but Duergars, Orcs and Derro too.

I never understood why and how WotC profits from the OSL. To me it feels like they basically let anyone (even giant companies) use everything except the copyrighted stuff from their work, and they are not seeing a dime out of it. I mean, Paizo basically built Pathfinder out of the OSL 3.5E, and...

It makes no sense that Kobolds, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Bugbears, Lizardmen, Gnolls, Githyanki and Githzerai have stat blocks for specific roles and capabilities of their species and any creature that is a humanoid doesn't. Given that a lot of the above creatures are also playeable, this just makes...

As a biologist, this change makes me really happy. :D The annoying bit from this is that they lose anything that made them special, no? Such as Drow Priestesses having tentacle rods, or Duergars having the Enlarge and Invisibility powers. Plus, even more annoying, that would mean they would...