Recent content by maeve

Other people have mentioned how followers of pre-modern religions (at least) absolutely saw proof of their gods in the world around them, in their (apparent) responses to prayers, in (apparent) miracles, etc., but I think it's also worth noting that conceptualizing religion as being about faith...

They are playing 5.5. This decision was made, apparently, after much discussion with Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins.

I'm not sure how it works on their end, but it is frustrating that some Shopify stores make me put an item in my cart and start checking out – at which point Shopify does reliably indicate the currency – to even know how much a purchase would cost me. This is such an obviously bad user...

This is essentially my literal reading of the effect of the Invisibility spell (although obviously not the intention). I think enlarge/reduce would not work, because the spell applies an effect to a creature that the caster can see, and is therefore excluded by the Concealed effect. However...

Interesting. I'd noticed the change from a threshold to a budget, but hadn't really thought through its impact (or lack thereof) on the XP ranges. I'm pretty sure the designers of 5.5e are among the people that said this, which doesn't help matters. I recall them saying that that the old "easy"...

While improvements in the wording are clearly needed to clarify intention (e.g., they should probably get rid of the 6 to 8 encounters wording), I am unsure how "an XP budgeting systems that recommends a couple Short Rests" meaningfully differs from what is presented in the Adventuring Day...

If page limits are really the issue, I'd personally be happy with a D&DBeyond article (series) – or even a separate product a la 4e's Wizards Presents books – dedicated explaining their design philosophy in enough detail for me to understand why they made the choices they did.