Recent content by mjsoctober

You'll notice I used the word "species" not "race". Our society has this obsession with sub-dividing humans as races. Orcs are not humans just as Gnolls are not humans. Also, if we are not capable of playing games without transferring ideas from the games to the real world, then we have a bigger...

I didn't listen to the podcast, just giving my opinion on the topic that I have seen done to death in so many places.

In a make-believe world where GOOD and EVIL are actual things, and there are powerful gods who can create other living things, and those gods can be evil, it follows that an EVIL powerful god can create an entire species that has at its core that very real EVIL thing that exists. Whether or not...

So their exciting new print format is to take one book, split it in three, and put it in a slip case?

I didn't say anything about backwards compatibility. If a new PHB comes out in 2024, will it replace the 5e PHB on DDB? Will we get to have both, or will the 5e PHB (and other books) be removed from the site to be replaced with 2024 edition?

You're assuming WotC won't still make your purchases unusable once the new edition comes out in 2024.

If they set a precedent of forcing these changes on all users, and not allowing us a way to keep/use the previous versions of races and monsters, I will no longer be buying digital products from DDB (or likely anywhere). I'll stick to dead-trees.

I haven't been to FreeRPG day in a while, do they offer free PDF versions of these things for people who can't get to a retailer, or in areas where retailers don't participate?

I'll wait to watch/read the reviews but my first impression is that I'm not interested in this one. Might skip.

When do we get to the part where people complain that "killing people and taking their stuff" in the real world is wrong, so we should take it out of D&D?

Since some people here don't use Twitter, or aren't watching the various Mearls' hashtags, here are some handy links, and the evidence that has been shared. IF evidence is correct, then Mearls received private allegations from victims that he passed on to the abuser against the wishes of the...

The emails were sent by the alleged victims to Mearls with expected privacy. They did not expect that their emails would be passed on to their accuser.

There is evidence that serious allegations were made against Zak S to WotC through Mike Mearls. There is also evidence that Mike Mearls passed on the emails he received from the people alleging assaults to Zak along with their unredacted personal information, thus allegedly doxxing them. The...