Recent content by Maxperson

I just don't think that's a decision that will ever have to be made. We humans just don't change that quickly. They can go for both demographics today, and in 30 years when the current batch is the 30 year old group, they can go for both groups then as well.

Yeah. My Forgotten Realms never had a Sundering or Spell Plague. Yet it still has all the stuff in each edition and I have had no issues with that at all, despite not going out of my way to explain any of it.

I disagree. They are abstract only in the sense that they aren't specified until you use them, but all uses are sim. A giant scorpion attack that scratches you and inject poison simulates that experience. A sword swing that is parried a fraction of an inch before going through your throat...

You don't have to. I don't know if it was you, and I think it probably wasn't since I think it was from before 2023 when you joined the site, but someone once said they liked running hit points like Dragonball Z. That's perfectly fine and can be lots of fun. My position is coming from a...

Yes, and they do say that typically that's the case, which leaves open say a giant scorpion stinger attack to scratch you when above 50% in order to actually cause a poison save.

In 5e the rules say this... "you typically show no signs of injury. When you drop below half your hit point maximum , you show signs of wear, such as cuts and bruises. An attack that reduces you to 0 hit points strikes you directly, leaving a bleeding injury or other trauma, or it simply knocks...

And they would be fools not to try and capture both.

You don't need to change it at all with a new edition. Revealing what was always there because of a new addition is not a change to the setting. A change would be if a race was known to be there and it vanished because of a new edition. For example, when Dragonborn came out and were revealed...

And yet Dark Sun remains very popular, despite every race but human being either new or changed, weapons and armor being very different, magic being different, psionics being prominent, and so on.

But wasn't very good to build a movie around.

It's neither coincidence, nor important. The game changes and every setting in the game reacts retroactively to add in those elements from the very beginning. Settings, not being tied to any rule set, work with any rule set. There is no issue with these elements appearing, but the reverse is...

Do you not understand that only a miniscule fraction of the world(every setting ever made), it's cities and its history has been detailed out? The Suloise could have created tens of thousands of Dragonborn and had entire armies of them fighting in their wars. We don't know because their wars...

Yes, the UA has a table that opens up cleric to gray, hill, and mountain dwarves. Edit: Of course no table I ever played at limited classes the way the 1e PHB did. If an NPC could do it, PCs could do it. That's probably what prompted the UA change.

This is from the 1e Dragonlance Adventures book, talking about Lord Soth. "Yet waiting for him along the way was a troop of elven clerical women who stopped him." "His Knights, blind in their obedience to his will, remain with him still as skeleton warriors, the elven clerics reside there as...