Recent content by Mistwell

It's hard to remember. I started with D&D for sure, I think in 1978. I don't know if Star Frontiers, Gamma World, or Marvel Superheroes was my next game to try. I'm guessing it was about a year before I tried one though.

I'll have to get them out and take a picture. Maybe I am mis-remembering?

Back during 4e I bought a lot of painted plastic minis. Usually at least four to six of the same thing, given how 4e liked to match number of monsters to number of party members. And they were not nearly this bad. Most were pretty decent. Now that we play exclusively online I should probably...

Which part, that only a fraction of current players care about FR lore, or that those who are angry about FR lord are far more likely to respond to any survey than happy people? I think for these surveys the later is probably false. So many different types of people respond to surveys that I...

It is for me!

We use Discord as primary, Zoom as secondary. For video we prefer Zoom, but if it's primary audio we find Discord is easiest.

It's...fine? Not enough for me to feel the need to go buy this at the FLGS

Have people found the Study and Search actions to come up enough to justify that change?

When my Cleric got a 19 strength unexpectedly it was funny, and sometimes useful, but usually just an RP thing. He wasn't built to use strength so it just didn't come up very often. He could grapple like the dickens though!

I am finding the new game is very sensitive to adventuring day length. If you're having one combat per day, a lot of items seem overpowered. For example, if you have armor that can cast the Shield spell with d6 charges times a day, that's overpowered for a single combat each day because it's...

In actual use I've repeatedly heard Counterspell remains a good spell. Very little changed about cantrips?

Right but that would be a houserule. Nothing wrong with a houserule but I think there is a way for WOTC to fix it with a new spell which doesn't mess with their prior design integrity.

I think there is a solution for the Ranger Hunter's Mark that doesn't require changing the Ranger class itself. Major Hunter's Mark Does the same thing as Hunter's Mark, but is a level 3 spell [so comes online at level 9], has no concentration, and gives you a choice of an add-on for when you...

So disappointed there is no Wizard (Necromancer) subclass announced for this. Wizard had, I think, the most number of subclasses removed between the 2014 and 2024 PHB, and when given the opportunity to finally put one of them back in they put two Warlock subclasses in instead, AND an Artificer...

I am characterizing Williams as an unethical businessperson during that brief window when she effectively took over the company (and for a few other decisions well after all this which hasn't been discussed in this thread). I am characterizing Gary Gygax as both an unethical businessperson and...