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Adventurers League still exists. New adventures are community-created via the Dungeoncraft programme, with quite tight restrictions on...

And... when the party is lost and runs out of rations, the deer will get a good weeks worth of meat for everyone!

The gnome wizard in my game does this, although the familiar spends almost as much time as a bat (for exploration). He's got an exotic...

By the rules as written (RAW), 2024 Player's Handbook page 26: "You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when...

So one of my players showed up with a Kobold Rogue with a Deer familiar (Find Familiar from magic initiate). Checking the verbiage on...

That is a cool find. Another option: a vulture, also Medium size. Personally, I'd consider house-ruling a Tiny or Small size...

Yeah, if we look at scifi, the components are there… in Star Wars, the Force also has some components. Their mage hand usually requires...

Spock reading thoughts required somatic components (particular gestures touching the face), and his transfer of his Katra to McCoy in...

If anyone is purely mental, it's all of us here who were hoping for a different resource system for psionics in 5E.

Yes he is definitely wrong. Particularly in this hysterical statement: Yeah sure right Ryan, the only two "new forms of gaming...

Yes. But, in pushing back on the technical point, your argument looks like apologia. Here's the thing: Production of scientific gen...

Maybe it came across wrong--I'm not trying to convince people their concerns are not valid because I think those concerns are valid. AI...

Good questions. Maybe declaring art that incorporates AI generated elements "not art" isn't helpful. But to me, it is problematic. It...

In doing diagnostics, machine systems typically have access to higher data resolution than people do. However, an AI writing a rulebook...

Indeed. I literally attended a training session last week and again yesterday because we are now required to use AI to generate our...