Recent content by Benjamin Olson

It's a little odd that the little "initiate" wannabe lich is arguably much more evil than the full-on lich. I mean devouring souls to prolong your foul simulacrum of life is one thing, but consuming them just for a minor benefit on your next attack (and I guess "for practice") is kind of...

I don't really think upping the spell level and material cost of resurrecting someone whom nobody is going to resurrect in either case is the evil part. I think the probable implication that you've robbed their soul of an eternal afterlife is the evil part (though depending on where the soul was...

I think if I was setting out to exploit this I would have to go Champion Fighter. An expanded crit range when you're rolling like 7 d20s a turn (by time this gets online) is pretty wild.

I haven't played it, but my guess would be 2024 characters will mostly hit above their weight-class against 2014 monsters, so I would recommend starting an undersized group against those, and maybe swapping in the (usually a little beefier) 2024 monsters if they are steamrolling things. Healing...

Generally it makes more sense to cater one's product line or offerings to the opinions of people who intend to keep buying or consuming them rather than those who do not. Now arguably I'm on the fence, because while I'm not pleased or satisfied with Daggerheart as a game, I'm still conceivably...

So I think the core failing of this survey is that they kept asking me about what products, digital tools, etc. I think would be good without ever establishing whether I actually like the game or want more products from them. Since the answer to both is "sort of, but not really" I'm probably not...

I think we would need a clear explanation of what you actually mean by "spooky" to resolve this, clearly critical, question. But, I'd go with Evoker, because, to me the core of spookiness is about our anticipatory unease at what the spooky person or thing might do or be capable of doing, and...

Or the author of the article focused on the most memorable thing from the chapters the project is focused on, which was the weird, unexplained maybe god that the characters met. He's also the easiest thing to make some sort of Jackson trilogy compatible narrative around, since the movies have...

Morgoth High, only on the CW.

I always felt like he must have been an incredibly important character to Tolkien given that a substantial chunk of time was spent on him despite him having minimal narrative impact and his significance to the worldbuilding being a giant confusing questionmark. But no, he's clearly not all that...

While in principle I think it would make a lot of sense for different human cultures (which in a traditional historic or fantasy world would heavily align with different human ethnicities) to have different plausibly culturally based strengths (such as a list of skills to choose a free...

Seems more like a "greatest mustaches of the 20th and 21st centuries (belonging to non-dictators)" poll to me.

Well, I'm not convinced that this isn't just setting up a very elaborate April fools prank for next week, but I'd probably like it better than I do Rings of Power. Eventually every stray sentence Tolkien wrote will be adapted into a massive cinematic extravaganza. Except the Silmarillion.

YouTubers would just do more monetizing by shilling VPNs and the like, selling merch, having Patreons, etc. Fundamentally the incentives for content creators to get more views, subscribers, etc. remain the same whether YouTube directly throws some cash their way or not.

It seems to me like it's a pretty bleak existence long-term in the D&D YouTuber sphere. You basically have to make D&D your whole life to keep up, and it still doesn't work because even someone playing TTRPGs around the clock doesn't generate enough thoughts and experiences about them worth...