Recent content by Mecheon

Irrelevant flavour that does not impact how the character plays is not a balancing factor. All of the other times D&D did "You have to do this specific party-destroying RP thing" it just made the class unplayable. I get old editions liked to think you'd have your character around for years and...

That's not really a balancing factor when we're talking about out of combat spells like Wish, though. I do think its a fair argument though because that's how the class was designed. "You won't achieve this game-breaking thing" is just a question of, why put it in the rules to begin with? 2E's...

One's 'roll high and the specific rules of the game will determine', the other's 'roll high and go "DM may I?"'. One you gamble with, the other is guaranteed to at least do something. Ultimately, yeah. But in the long run of it? "Your character can do damage" will handle problems in just about...

The exploration spells tend to be high enough in potency to disregard checks, and likewise the social spells tend to be a 'win one check but face consequences' nature. Its ultimately just roll high = win Traps exist, sure, but not with high enough frequency to build a character just for traps...

The thing is though, 90% of D&D's mechanics are combat. There's no specific social or exploration rules outside of the vague 'high roll = good'. There's no social or exploration game to play or build towards. The social character could move nations. Orr the DM could say 'yeah no', and the build...

There's a completely unused Land of Dragons in Greyhawk lore that's been an easy Dragonborn fit for decades (yes I know about the French comic that people say happens there but there's no way in hell WotC are making a random French comic canon)

Do they, though? Warcraft has plenty of guns and I wouldn't say it really disproportionately imposes a genre on things, outside of other WoW stuff. Dwarven riflemen and elven archers both present different types of threats. Despite all being legendary weapons, a lot more people care about...

That's not Wikipedia's end goal. Its trying to be an encyclopedia. In the dinosaur space, that means a lot of stuff needs to be put in that we know isn't accurate, but was considered back in the day. Consider Dawndraco. We're pretty sure that's just a random indistinct Pteranodon and the person...

Though far more successful poster boy Arthas was, and I think its fair to say that more folks would think of this image when they think 'death knight' well before they think of Soth

Plus, well, given what just happened to Sora, and that had Disney money behind it, 'what about the future' may not necessarily look good in AI's case. When one of the big gen AI products just got completely shut down, it doesn't really speak to further reliability in the product. Wikipedia is a...

Societies tend towards lawful, though. Chaotic characters tend to end up the lone wolves away from that society, so as the chaotic evil person amasses power? They're going to break away from that society through one reason or another. Be it banditry or something else And yeah, they need to be...

Are they even going to care? Like, when it comes to 'smart chaotic evil', my brain goes to Zenos from FFXIV who is a complicated character but most likely falls into that 'chaotic evil' side of things. And he's not a dumb character. He's someone raised to end up ruling an empire, something he...

It is fulfilling a different niche. Though I do think there's room for an avian/generic flier archetype there as a hypothetical Rodan-alike would do different things to a Mothra-alike. Likewise a few gaps as Behemoth is a bit set on being what it is and not, say, some sort of armored fighter...

I'd hardly really call this a debunk. If these issues happened just by themselves, folks would have posted them all over the place. Its not like people haven't dragged Starfield enough, its not a popular game and people love to dunk on it for any reason they can. If this was a raw issue with...

There is exactly 0% evidence of this, and given pulp fantasy is basically dead and buried in the modern day, I think its a bit of a leap too far for that one. D&D's at its most popular when its about heroes doing heroic things, so the game responds accordingly. The death kneel for pulp in D&D...