Recent content by Charlaquin

Lesson learned: never mention 4e if you don’t want to drag a thread into edition war territory. I wish I was joking, but people have such strong emotional investments in their opinions of 4e, be they positive or negative, it’s basically impossible to talk about without starting an argument.

They were in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft (the 5e one).

I’m not saying there aren’t people who still deny climate change. I’m saying the people who are ever going to accept it have done so.

Anyway, I think the Beadle and Grimm platinum box will be for the Thay adventure. Dark Sun is probably coming, but I think it’s most likely to follow the format we saw with the Forgotten Realms books, with one player-facing and one DM-facing book “player’s guide to Athas” and “adventures in...

They were very topical 10 years ago, when climate change was becoming enough of a problem that centrists could no longer convince themselves it was a far-off problem. Since then, we’ve gotten to the point where they’re not just topical but “too real.” A lot of people are not going to want to...

It means “don’t” or “stop”.

Based on the OP’s username having changed to “Guest bunchofnumbers” since posting this, I’m guessing they either got banned or requested to have their account deleted.

I’ve run both, and I definitely found out of the abyss to be much worse.

Absolutely, which is why I started that post with “tastes vary, of course.” That’s not my intent. I was speaking of my personal experience. The people I have played with typically gravitate towards railroads if they are disengaged, and enjoy more nonlinear structures when they are engaged. I...

Tastes vary of course, but in my experience, disengaged players prefer railroads, because it requires minimal effort from them. Engaged players get bored of railroads because the effort they put into it doesn’t get rewarded enough, which can often lead to them becoming disengaged, and resigning...

Not as such, but magic like teleportation, scrying, sending, etc. enables almost as effective mass communication. Yes, but what one thousand year old elf knows is irrelevant when there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of elves in the world. The long lives of these species means that...

There are two different problems with Tyranny. One is that when it was originally released, the combat balance was all out of whack, because it had been written while 5e was still in development, and some of the monster stat blocks changed between the writing and the release, which threw off a...

The problem isn’t that any individual elf saw any particular historical event, it’s that for any given historical event, there are living elves who saw it. EDIT: This also isn’t just an elf problem. Lots of species have long enough lifespans to make what should be ancient history into living...