Recent content by Clint_L

I would love to get @Snarf Zagyg ‘s take on what this ruling and the judge’s comments mean, as well as the potential significance. It seems to me that there are some distinct issues at play. I am very loathe to offer an opinion but fascinated by the topic.

They’ve always been listed as “partnered content,” at least since that category was added. That can mean different things. Tal’Dorei Revisited is 3PP. Explorers Guide and Netherdeep are partnered content but not 3PP. The three classes cited above were all published by WotC for D&D specifically...

Are you a lawyer? I am not, but what you are describing seems very different from what the article is describing, in which the judge seems to be making an important ruling re. the transformative aspects of LLMs, which it seems to me (not a lawyer) could have far-reaching ramifications in US law...

Can you clarify what you mean by “unlikely to return”? All of those subclasses are currently in the game. I had an echo knight in a campaign that just concluded, and Explorers Guide to Wildemount, for example, is currently available on DDB; indeed, it was fairly recently updated to integrate...

I love the idea of rebooting the franchise as a period film (which makes even more sense given how the last Bond ended). The Bond aesthetic works best in that context, IMO.

My notes are less about mechanics and more about locations and NPCs. For the way I run games, I need to understand the motivations of the characters so I can have them respond sensibly to character choices. It also means that even if players abandon or ignore a thread, it keeps on humming...

Monks are very good at grappling now - I think @ECMO3 has a good description of how his monk fights with it in a recent thread. I agree that its usefulness depends on encounter design - my campaigns involve a lot of humanoid opponents. If you are up against a lot of large, powerful monsters it...

Not like this (again, seen every episode; set my campaign on Exandria - my players visit those magic shops) - in episode 2 of AU they are getting items every few minutes, but all of the enhancements are very incremental - sometimes mundane items but still an improvement. It feels much like...

Yeah, fighters have incredible damage scaling in 5e 2024. And I think berserserker barbarians math out even higher (not for nova damage, though).

I have also created encounters where staying and fighting was simply not an option. For example, I had one where the party was trying to get an artifact from a bridge in the middle of a lava chamber while the BBEG was coming for it from the other side. But the chamber was the resting place of a...

Excellent overview. Note that with the 2024 rules, monks can (and should) now choose to use dexterity rather than strength for their grapples. Which makes sense; monks should be good at grappling.

I do not remember that.

Maybe in theory, but that's not what's happening in the AP that this thread is about. It's like you're asking me not to believe my lying eyes. I mentioned Diablo earlier, with regards to setting, but another way that the AP reminds me of Diablo is in how many items are being collected by the...

D&D is still something of a mystery and a nerd thing amongst most of my generation (X). And it's like anything else - people are mostly all talk. It's easy to make conversation, but actually comitting to something, especially when you probably don;t really understand what it is? That's hard...