Recent content by Milieu

Gamera is really neat! He is filled with turtle meat! I wildshaped into Gamera!

Not to put too fine a point on it, but aren't you kind of doing the thing you're criticizing? You say that a style you don't like becomes UnFun with a capital U and a capital F, even if the people who play that way don't realize it. And then imply that all the people who don't think your style...

Here's the same items in 3e. The Staff of Withering It's called Rod of Withering in 3e, because they systematized the difference between Rods, Wands, and Staves. (Wands cast a single spell, Staffs cast several spells, and Rods do special things.) In 3.0: Not as colorful an effect as 1e...

There's not an explicit list, but it says part of its core ethos is "The characters automatically succeed at what they are trained to do. Only use stat checks when there is time pressure and failure has dire consequences." Of course, there's almost always some time pressure in Shadowdark, as...

On the other hand, there's a lot of "reborn/reincarnated in another world" anime lately. Some of them do have the character born as a baby, but just as many have them pop into existence as a teen/young adult/sword/vending machine.

In 2e: Roll a d10 for each side. 1, 2, or 3 means they're surprised. (If both are surprised, it cancels out.) The unsurprised side gets one round of attacks with melee, missile, or magic items, but can't cast spells. Surprised characters lose any AC bonus from Dex and attacks against them are at...

Sure, anyone can be wrong, and I didn't say otherwise, but this is a thoroughly researched paper produced by career public servants with expertise in copyright, after extensive public comment. "They might be wrong" is too trivial an argument to dismiss it. And even if they are wrong, those...

Yes, and the US Copyright Office agrees. Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability (footnotes removed) See also Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence

I have never minded x/day (or long rest) abilities, but I do think it's perhaps more interesting to make them unlimited with a cost or a risk for overdoing it. What I do mind is when they make the tracking more complicated: Barbarians get x rages/long rest, but get 1 back on a short rest, and at...

This reminds me: depending on the edition, Reincarnation might the only option for reviving elves. OD&D Raise Dead works "with men, elves, and dwarves only", thus excluding halflings. 1e Raise Dead says "When the cleric casts a raise dead spell, he or she can restore life to a dwarf, gnome...

It's right there in the middle of the Neutrality column. What kind of animal do you reincarnate into? ¯\(ツ)/¯

Going by owlbear illustrations in the Monster Manuals (or edition equivalent), most have serrated beaks. clearly serrated: 1e, 2e compendum, 4e essentials, 5.0e, 5.5e unclear, maybe serrated: 2e MM, 4e single tomial tooth and notch: 3.Xe probably no tomia: OD&D OD&D Greyhawk Supplement -...

I don't think you need to entirely eliminate it. Just eliminate the dipping. Either you're a rogue/cleric hybrid from the start and keep them at equal levels, or you're a 7th level rogue who decides to become a cleric, and you have to spend your next 3 (or so) levels on that before you can...

When I read "Using...Warlock to Remake Bard", my first thought was the Bard selling their soul to the devil in exchange for guitar skills, like Tommy and/or Robert Johnson.

I don't think there's a reasonable way to get what you want without being location- (or at least climate type–) specific. But if you have a set of Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter charts for a given location, I think you could tolerably interpolate between seasons without too much extra complication...