Recent content by Maxperson

As @Paul Farquhar said, there's no big shake-up in the 5e Realms stuff, and I think the new two book set Realms product is pretty good. As for my personal game, no sundering or spellplague ever happened. I loved the idea of the Time of Troubles, but the latter two events are lame in my opinion.

Yes. Seriously, settings are pretty edition neutral. The rules in the places that they show up at all are likely 5.5e, but the setting information in it is pretty much just lore and NPCs, which are easily translatable into any edition. I still use my 3e FR setting book, because as I said...

The hairy spider is just a 1 hit point spider. You can find a similar spider in the 5e MM on page 337.

The cost of a lawsuit is relatively minor when compared to the potential gains in stock prices/dividends that result from a corrected course. Assuming those suing are correct.

I think it's okay, but I'd limit it to only 1 use per combat, resetting after each combat. If you allows 2 or 3 death saves to be converted to hit dice, it's inevitable that PCs are going to drop like flies until they self-curb to one use. It's still a gamble, because starting at 1 death save...

Fixed that for you. And since I did, I claim the first plate.

Our guild leader took stuff he got for housing and with the ability to just stick stuff in space and turn it, built a realistic looking pool table. He did other cool stuff as well, but that one stood out. I also got my bags cleared out except for this single cartel puzzle chip. I can't sell...

Sure, but the DMG clearly says if the DM allows it, you can buy magic items. No magic item purchases is the default state and the DM has to act to allow such sales. What a setting says is subordinate to DM decisions like that.

I've played with several 5e DMs and run the game myself and have never encountered that. Some of them have had some shops with a few randomly rolled items to pick from, but never freedom to just pick stuff to buy.

The default state of magic items is no magic mart. You need to find a DM that allows sales, and then allows sales of anything you want in any numbers. That's Monty Haul. I've only ever played with one DM who would allows magic item purchases like that, and he was definitely Monty Haul. Most...

That's true, but I don't think there are any comparables to psionics other than spellcasting, which can be countered, dispelled, etc. I'm arguing from that standpoint.

Insofar as nothing is truly needed, you are correct. However, the game is balanced with the monsters weighed against class abilities, which would include psionics. If psionics weren't able to be countered, dispelled, etc., WotC would balance the class another way to keep it in line with their...

It sort of has to be magic to be affected by magic resistance. :P