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For toy companies 'roleplay items' means toy swords and costumes.

Mearls here says something like "It turns out needing two islands to cast a counterspell is a part of why it works," so, yeah, he...

Broader. Talking about modularity, and how that lets 3PPs get away with 5e-compatible design that is quite different from 5e and uses...

Commentary as I'm listening to it: "Blue Magic" design was part of what informed the design of Shield and Counterspell, since Mearls is...

Oh! Ok, so he’s not saying that they didn’t intentionally overtune blast spells, but rather that their initial math probably lowballed...

A gameholecon panel. Recorded by Mike Shea. A recording of the "Beautiful Mess of 5e" Gamehole Con seminar recorded on 15 October 2025...

In an ideal system, trying to intimidate to surrender, like casting a save-or-die spell, would still do something to these encounters...

And this plays pretty much straight into @Benjamin Olson's point. Because, as a player, you never really know if THIS encounter is DM...

If it was me, perception at least would be some kind of saving throw. Independent of stats. Like death saving throws. And some classes...

Oh, it's a great use in theory. In practice, no, I'm not going to let you frighten Orcus into giving up and begging for his (un)life...

@I'm A Banana Appreciate you taking the time to go through it so closely. I won’t reply point by point, but I think there are a few...

Worth exploring! I'd want to note that disengagement itself isn't necessarily a huge problem. In a 4-hour session, a little brain break...

Recently I did a two stage boss by just having an archmage instantly respawn as a lich once he was killed. (Both were 5.0 versions and...

I think this is likelier than something more....product-intensive. If the idea is to do little pop culture riffs and just kind of have...

Final thought: that also assumes a traditional setting in the vein of Ravnica. A UB product COULD just be something like an Elden Ring...