Depends on the scene. A combat encounter is a complex challenge, just like navigating a maze, negotiating a peace treaty, Swaying a council or parliament or Althing to take a particular action, etc.
A bottle episode adventure is a railroad now? Wild.
Nah, unless you took them from what they were trying to do and made them go to the Feywild, it isnt a railroad.
Not a great response to criticism of a system. Like...recognizing that something about multiclassing doesn't make sense doesn't indicate anything resembling an unwillingness to "accept the problems" of multiclassing.
No. it is not.
No, they have not. Not putting it in the book is not telling you that you play the game wrong. It just isn't specifically catering to you.
Absurd claim. no.
What. How? When? What the hell?
People online have said something kinda like that but vastly less absurd, but wotc has...
I should have used an emoji. It was said in humor.
I mean, I said magic like dnd has, which is an extremely more specific statement. And yes, if the most scientifically and technologically advanced place in the world at the time, where people literally had ideas of things like homunculus, it is...
The term is magitech, but hey at least you didnt call it steampunk i guess. And it isnt at all a hackjob, it is quite in line with the history and themes and inspiration of Calimshan, just written by someone who knows more than a cursory intro class worth of knowledge about the inspiration, ie...
Imagine if a culture of orcs harbored the desire to be heroic and to honor strength that serves the community and basically calls forth a heroic paladin-of
-the-ancients-like goddess to lead them into a completely different society than what they had before. Imagine the world adjusting to that.
At least jow you have a place to start!
Thinking about what gods might arise in a world that had them, lost them, and is just now gaining new ones, is totally different from a blank slate. Maybe gods are regional and small themed like god of this city and goddess of silversmiths of this...