Recent content by Deadstop

Yeah, I honestly thought they were already calling themselves White Wolf.

I especially dislike that they ARE planning to release more JG material on the back of this, including their own expansion of CSIO (which, by the very precautions GG is taking to avoid paying them, will outlive the “modern sensibilities” version). I was at least taking comfort in the fact that...

Yeah, that’s not a change or waffling, that was the stated backup plan for “despite our limits and the likely math, this thing blows up and we can’t avoid having to send some money to the licensors.” It’s unlikely the project will make that much and they’ve deliberately tried to make it even...

They are not selling those retail, only the Jaquays-tied Dark Tower and Collection Vol. 2. Did you check to see if you could actually get them wholesale? Goodman screwed up here, and I understand your reticence, but they have generally been good people, and seem to be striving for that still...

It’s possible. That’s why the statement mentions both full refunds and an evenly prorated amount to each of the old backers, whichever the new KS makes possible.

But … if the subclass is supposed to represent the Purple Dragon Knights of Cormyr, then the subclass does constitute an update to their lore, even if we might desire further explanation. If the subclass represents a whole other group of people who ride amethyst dragons and also call themselves...

In the MCU, Bucky killed President Kennedy, so that’s a change that would occur in the very year in question.

“Husband, wife, wife’s younger brother, and husband’s best friend from college” does not fit the usual definition of “traditional nuclear family.” They are the archetypal traditional cosmic-ray family, though.

Aren’t you an older-editions guy? My initial Moldvay Basic Set from the early 80s had a monster entry for Normal Men with 1-4 hp, compared to which even a first-level character is mildly extraordinary. Just because PCs level up fairly fast at first doesn’t mean most people “level up” at all...

See, CleverNickname’s post is what I thought the thread topic was meant to be about in the first place — not the issues with generative AI itself, but the fact that the reaction has led to actual human artists having their work classed as AI-created and therefore unethical, either by tools like...

Remember the evolution analogy. The key with incremental changes is not that they can’t lead to a large departure in the end, but that you never have so many of them at once that there’s a clean break. BX 2023 probably looks nothing like, and is incompatible with, its distant ancestor BX 1981...

Aren’t some spells phrased like that as well? I read it as “When you use this maneuver, you take an Attack (or whatever) action,” as in “the action that the maneuver uses is also an Attack action with these parameters.” You could also read it as “The maneuver takes an action but then gives you...

While the word "divine" is connected to languages associated with Christianity, and a lot of the study on the subject has been done by Westerners brought up in a Christianish milieu, I'm pretty sure the concept of the divine/holy/sacred/numinous is not specific to Christianity or even monotheism.

Heck, the 4e "investiture/ordination" narrative is how Catholic priests (undoubtedly among the most familiar real-world clerics to Western gamers) are understood to work in real life. Now, of course, their "superpowers" are sufficiently subtle that non-Catholics quite reasonably don't think they...

Or, perhaps, to allow for easier creation of stories of subversion, internecine strife, or just clerics going off and starting their own sect without the god immediately revoking powers. Or, heck, within a PC, the real-world drama of a priest who doubts or sins or starts thinking about the...