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If that second fighter switched to thief, he'd reach level 5 as a thief while the first fighter is still level 5 as a fighter. So he'd...

A level 9 fighter has 250k xp. A fighter 5/thief 5/bard 10 has earned 250k xp. The barrier to being a bard wasn't level. The barrier...

You had to be a 5th level fighter(18k xp) and a 5th level thief(10k xp), so 28k xp total. Even if you were single class only, neither of...

No, these aren't things I think about only in retrospect, but are things I have actually thought about when actively deciding which...

My understanding of Hyperborea is that it originally billed itself as 1e but with classes, races, monsters, and magic specifically...

See, the real trick is to use Behavioral Economics. You start off by having the "95%" option not as a given, but making a nominal amount...

Right now I'm in the middle of David Ewalt's Of Dice and Men. It's a bit better than I had heard; readable but not amazing. Though I...

Started reading the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels around six months ago. I'm a good way through the series at this point. *Looks up...

Just read Once Was Willem by M R Carey, which was pointed out to me by this thread, and I’m grateful. It’s a remarkable piece of work...

People bash it for being more contemplative than the earlier Earthsea books, and it definitely feels like she intended to end the series...

Started reading The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin. I've read just up to 30 pages, but I already like it a lot

Currently reading Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock. As usual, his work is pretty dense, though this one isn't as dense as, say...

Her prose seems so effortless, but having dabbled in creative writing, I know it is anything but

A Wizard of Earthsea is fantastic. It's a book I didn't come to until my mid-twenties, and I really wish I had gotten to it sooner.

Not technically correct. Ethan Hunt was a new character. Original character Jim Phelps was recast (John Voigt replaced Peter Graves).