Recent content by Charlaquin

Yeah, I’m on the same page as you on this matter.

It’s more obvious if you just look at the 2014 PHB. There are no universal bonus actions other than dual wielding in the original PHB; bonus actions were originally always granted by specific class features or by spells, and there weren’t yet that many such features. The rogue had a use for a...

Yeah, this is honestly the best way to handle it.

I mean, they’re only inelegant because the designers insisted in trying to pretend they’re an extra thing you only get sometimes instead of properly integrating them into the action economy. 4e’s action economy was elegant AF. 5e’s action economy is just 4e’s action economy wearing Groucho Marx...

It does vary, but few to no memories before 3-ish is most common.

Which seems like a wild stance to me, but 🤷‍♀️

Because even the existence of bonus actions in 5e was a compromise. Mike Mearls didn’t want them to exist at all, but apparently there must have been enough demand for them that he was convinced to include them in the most unobtrusive way he could manage. That’s also why they’re called “bonus”...

I think the adventure anthologies are usually better received than the big honking adventure paths (other than Curse of Strahd).

Ghibli’s work is heavily informed by Shinto. Might be worth looking into if you want your setting’s religion to fit those vibes.

D&D really wants to emulate stories like the Iliad and the Odyssey where the gods regularly show up and directly interact with the heroes, but it struggles because it’s written by people who’s direct experience of religion is almost exclusively abrahamic. So, you get a pantheon of personified...

All of the traits of the society I described that it had in common with social democracies were paraphrased, but directly from the book. Uhh… it’s not a trait universal to social democracies, but it is a social policy that a socially democratic society could have. It doesn’t use that phrase, no.

Not true. Universal basic income is provided and magical healing is available and priced according to one’s needs, but both of these things imply there is still a functioning market economy and fiscal inequality. The state’s own reserve is also said to be maintained by taxes and “heavy” tariffs...

So, no specific objections to describing the society of the radiant citadel as a social democracy after all then?

I’m pretty sure the ways in which the setting presented in Radiant Citadel “goes further” than social democracy is topical and appropriate for public discussion. I’m not asking for your real-life political opinions, I’m asking what specifically about the fictional society presented in the book...

Something along these lines. • Human • Dwarf - Hill - Mountain - Deep • Elf - High - Wood - Deep • Halfling • Gnome - Forest - Rock - Deep • Orc • Goblinoid - Puca (or whatever, I just needed a name for your basic goblin) - Hob - Bugbear • Dragonborn • Goliath • Kobold • Planetouched - Fiendish...