Recent content by Charlaquin

That makes two of us What…? What did I say that gave you the impression I don’t think mixed race people should be allowed in D&D? I just questioned the value of having a catch-all term for mixed-heritage species

Well, as with all categories, it’s socially constructed, and reveals more about what the society that constructed it values than about the thing it categorizes.

I find handouts and manipulatives useful in moderation, but they can quickly get overwhelming. This set will therefore probably not be for me. But I would like to read through the adventure, if only to see how they decide to update the classic. Maybe the digital version will suit my needs...

Nah. Sounding scientific wasn’t the problem with species (which I still dislike as the term to replace race, but it’s no longer a battle worth fighting) and it isn’t the problem with hybrid.

Well, a lot of humans have some amount of Neanderthal ancestry. Same genus, different species. Probably. Paleo taxonomy is complicated.

It’s a term typically used for (non-human) animals, and so is dehumanizing when applied to human(oid)s

I’m not the one you asked, but I run both TotM and on grid, and I find uses for slow and push in TotM. But I don’t adhere strictly to the distance numbers when running TotM. I keep it abstract and focus on the spirit of the property over the letter. Push gets enough distance to allow you to move...

I feel exactly the same. I’m thinking of introducing a house rule where instead of gaining mastery in specific weapons, you learn specific weapon mastery properties, and when you attack with a weapon that is eligible for one or more of the masteries you know, you can choose one of them to apply...

Do we really need an umbrella term for mixed-heritage species? Can’t such species just have their own unique names, like Khoravar and Jhor'guntaal?

1d4 long rests is a little weird, I probably would have just gone with one long rest.

I for one am glad to see the species formally known as half-elves return under an endonym, with their own distinct set of abilities. The half has always been a weird naming convention for a couple of reasons, but the guideline to choose one side to inherit the mechanics from clearly wasn’t...

My local experience (just a person with a lot of friends and colleagues who play D&D) is that only really hyper-invested people really understand what the revised rules are. The average casual D&D player doesn’t know what has actually changed in the new rules, and doesn’t really care to spend...

I mean, it sounds like meaningless corpo-speak. Though, knowing Paradox and Nu White Wolf, it may be how they refer to their particular LARP-driven metaplot.

Yeah, with the current state of the games industry, avoiding big-name studios and instead working with the new indie studios made up of the people who’s work earned those big-name studios their reputation and then left when corporatization ruined the culture there is absolutely the move.

That was also my thought seeing that this guy was coming from 343i. Those clowns killed what had been one of the biggest phenomena in video games at the time that they gained stewardship of it. Doesn’t exactly inspire faith in what their former head might do with stewardship of “the world’s...