Recent content by Chaltab

Rangers in A5E aren't half casters.

...didn't Gen Z make Columbo super popular again? I really don't think young people are as much of a monolith as you believe.

They would care about cheesing off their customers again after the OGL debacle, which a harder break from backwards compatibility would have done.

I mean better is subjective, but I think it's neat. Because the capstones are a type of feature instead of a singular unique feature, they can add additional ones and give each class more options.

The point of a Trademark is to prevent people from profiting off you brand's good name and reputation. WOTC can bring a trademark case against you if you use D&D in a way they don't approve of... Whether they would for just using it on a compatibility page is another story. Doesn't seem worth...

It is. But WOTC apparently would still prefer that you don't use the name of the game.

I mean, TOTV reworks it so all sublcasses are 3/7/11/15 and does some things with this such as providing level 10 and 20 capstone features in the base class.

I mean technically they did. They say they still want you to use 'compatible with 5e' or '5th edition'. But it's no longer an explicit part of the license that you can't say 'D&D'.

I'd still avoid it using it on the cover, but it's probably fine to use it on a compatibility page. Really the only reason you couldn't under the OGL is that it was expressly forbidden as part of the license.

I chose the example I did specifically because it was player motivated. "Player A wants to do this. Players B through H are there because Player A is their friend and they want to help him. Player A is suddenly taken out of the equation due to something unrelated." Nothing to do with an...

I would argue that a lot of people were predisposed towards not wanting to like 4E because of the actions of the company. If only because there was so many cases of people's explanations of why 4E didn't feel like D&D being disconnected from the reality of the game. Though ultimately I don't...

It's also worth noting that the increases costs of printing and the prevalence of online storefronts make the market a very different place than it was in the 3E era. You don't have official D&D splatbooks sharing limited physical shelf space with poor cashgrab d20 games or weird stuff like the...

I think the biggest thing is that they wanted to maintain compatiblitly with 3rd party content, especially subclasses. When you change the numbers and levels of subclass features, it requires more effort to convert than just changing the first/second level to third. Having written and...

I mean the biggest thing is that there are cards that effectively take a player out of the game. If that happens to someone intricately connected to the current scenario you can completely derail things. For example, in the first Critical Role campaign if Percy had drawn from the deck and had...

It was Dancey's idea