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I guess that depends on how you organise your “session zero”. These days ours takes the form of a WhatsApp discussion over several...

So, as a player, putting me on the spot and saying, "You must come as a blank slate, and do all your character creation right now," is a...

My book is sadly going to be delayed a few days. I'd been ordering from the small comic and game store downtown, support your FLGS and...

I read different connotations to that. It has "magical invention" and "tinkerers", not "genius". And I add that together with my...

I continue to feel that a good half the complaints about Artificers come from people comparing it to the imaginary Artificer they dreamt...

An Artificer isn't a surgeon, they're a field medic. They're not supposed to hole up in the workshop for six months crafting a legendary...

No one knows yet. The book doesn’t come out for another 16 hours.

I think the fundamental issue here is a discomfort with players wanting different things than the DM does. I think it's a control issue...

I have found my players, as time and work and family have become more and more important, have greatly paired back their time outside of...

Depends on which subclass, surely? Using that Wand might be an upgrade for an Alchemist, but a Battle Smith is getting two weapon...

I agree with the cure, but not the diagnosis. If anything, the "weird" doesn't come out of political correctness, but by a adherence to...

The plural of anecdote is not data. But I will point out a trend that I cannot prove, but tends to be the root of most of these horror...

Sometimes it's uncooperative players who want to do their own thing with no regard for the campaign pitch. Sometimes the DM just has a...

That was the implication. I trust nothing as certain until I see the full final draft.

It will be ...if they give them back firearm proficiency. As of the UA draft that wasn't a feature anymore, and only Battle Smiths got...