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Early in the D&D Next playtest, Wizards did the classic “prepare each spell individually” Vancian casting, while the new-school “prepare a spell once and you can cast it as many times as you have spell slots to cast it with” pseudo-Vancian was used by Clerics and Druids, and I think Paladins and...

Incorrect.

Ah, so you didn’t read the book. Got it.

I quite like roll to cast, but I wouldn’t lump it in with individual spell prep Vancian. It’s more akin to 5e-style, because preparing a spell once allows you to cast it any number of times until you fail a roll. I find it to be much more appealing than classic individual prep Vancian, but I...

I try not to assume, but as assumptions go that seems like a pretty reasonable one.

A lot of new hires recently. I don’t care to speculate about what if anything that might mean, but it is exciting.

I actually agree with you about all of this. Calling mixed species “half-whatever,” and assuming the other half is always human, as well as privileging human/elf and human/orc combinations over other mixes has always been dumb, and I’m sure are why they got cut from the PHB. But, mixed-“species”...

I understand your point, but with goblins specifically, them being fey makes sense and aligns with the folklore they’re derived from.

Oh! In that case, I have another guess what the problem might be. Blights have False Appearance. The most likely reason they aren’t lining up with your equation is that WotC assumed they would get a surprise round, so that’s messing up the functional damage output portion of the equation. Try...

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...