Recent content by Charlaquin

My best guess would be that those 61 are intended to be “solo” monsters. Legendaries, dragons, and other monsters the designers expected to most often be used as bosses. Does that jibe with the 61 you observed to have the higher hit chance?

Let me give you all a personal first-hand example. I’m 1/4 Pueto-Rican, but my grandmother assimilated so hard, I basically had no idea of my connection to that side of my heritage. I call her “Abby” despite her name being Mildred, because it’a short for Abuela, and as a kid I just accepted that...

The 2nd, 3rd, or later generation mixed experience is not the same as the 1st generation mixed experience, but both are mixed experiences, and valuable for the game to be able to represent.

This is true, but also, people often do object to age gaps between consenting adults. Generally the older people are, the wider the gap has to be before people start thinking it’s weird - 40 and 60 is generally pretty acceptable but 22 and 42 is pushing it for a lot of people. A 22 year old is...

Because mixed-heritage experiences are a valuable thing for the game to be able to represent. It can make mixed-heritage people feel seen, and give non-mixed-heritage people the opportunity to try to put themselves into the shoes of a mixed-heritage person. This is like roleplaying 101.

No, but it was the main point of my post. Yeah, anyone can “feel like an outsider” but there are different kinds and degrees of that feeling, and the kind half elves would be likely to experience is akin to the kind mixed race people experience. And to be clear, that experience doesn’t have to...

The dungeon master’s guide (the 2024 one) is a really great guide on how to run the game as a dungeon master, so the first thing I would recommend is just reading it, front to back. Which I know is a lot to read, but it’ll do a very comprehensive job of telling you what to expect, and...

There is an entity within D&D that WotC refers to as “the multiverse,” and within their canon, all games of D&D are considered to take place within it. Now, you don’t have to treat that as true within the canon of your own games, and there’s really no authority deciding which of those is the...

I imagine most half-elves would be born of a pretty young elf’s first relationship with a human. I mean, going by that dog analogy, I’m sure any of us who have had dogs can relate to that first dog’s death being the hardest. Even if you know, intellectually, that it’s only going to last a very...

That is an incredibly different experience from having mixed heritage…

It’s not weird for them to have common ancestors, it’s weird for them to be first cousins 60 times removed. Usually people aren’t alive at the same time as their great, great, (insert 58 more greats) uncle. But if they were, I imagine it might be considered a bit of a social faux pas to marry...

This chart rather understates how many generations removed Aragorn is from Elrond, but yes, he does have distant elven heritage. This also implies he and Arwen are very distant cousins, which is a little weird, albeit less so in light of those generations of removal.

I mean, changing the term from “race” to something else for that reason is a good idea. Changing it to “species” specifically is a bad choice IMO because it invites dumb arguments about which peoples should or shouldn’t be able to have children together. If it’s not clear from context...

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Not only is this mere pedantry, it’s wrong pedantry, and this kind of silliness is why I was opposed to species being the term used to replace race in 2024. The way different fantasy peoples relate to each other in D&D has never really reflected how different species relate to each other in...