Recent content by Osgood

I haven’t checked it out yet, but I am a little surprised to see yet another subclass heavy UA. Given how many of these are retuning subclasses, I suppose it could just be an effort to get as many things updated to the 2024 rules as quickly as possible… but I can’t shake the nagging feeling that...

You would add the cost of the base armor, plus the magic item cost by rarity. From the 2024 DMG (pg 217): "If a magic item incorporates an item that has a purchase cost in the Player’s Handbook (such as a weapon or a suit of armor), add that item’s cost to the magic item’s value. For example...

Growing up in Ohio, everyone used the term "pop." When I went to college (still in Ohio), the majority of my classmates were from out of state and used the term "soda," which I slowly adopted. My brother and local friends even switched to saying "soda." Now, over 30 years later, it sounds odd to...

Seems reasonable.

For last times horror UA, I suspect we will see a “Rules Expansion” for Ravenloft similar the Forge of the Artificer (with a lower age count and price point) because there’s already a campaign guide out. The latest UA for the Psion could be for a general psionics expansion, but I feel like a...

Can't say I'm surprised. People with these views can't seem to help themselves. I wasn't really interested in this project before all the controversy--nostalgia's not my thing, and I was never especially impressed with the 2 or 3 JG products I looked at back in the day--but after all this I...

Just a guess, but I suspect they realized a significant portion--maybe not half, but probably close to a a third--of the US either doesn't care or agrees with those views these days and sees an untapped market. Maybe they see their customer base as overrepresenting this group.

In person, but maybe once or twice a year we go online due to weather or plague.

A 3D tabletop always seemed like and interesting, but niche product to me. I suspect someone at the top just saw monetization possibilities without researching if this was a product that enough people wanted to pay for its development. It's almost like like someone went to a brainstorming...

Given how long they’ve been hyping it, I’m a little surprised the pulled the plug this quickly after launching it. But, I think it was inevitable. I didn’t spent a whole lot if time playing around with it (my computer isn’t a beast), but it seemed like it would take a ton if prep time to use...

While not a perfect analogy, it's a pretty decent one. I do wonder if things like new Coke (and 4E) have made the design team too skittish about taking big swings with changes. While in my estimation I like probably 80% of the changes in the 2024 rules, I would have liked to see a few a few more...

This was always inevitable. Big Business sees AI as a means to make Big Bucks. I suspect it will not work out as well as they think though--largely because in my experience most companies are pretty inept at (a) understanding technology and (b) understanding consumers. Not that I think Hasbro...

I predict we get two adventures, one a campaign the other an anthology. Not that I think it will happen, but I think it's time to flip the paradigm and have the longer campaigns be updates of classics and the anthologies be original material. Their track record with these long adventures has...

I really like the dragonmark feats... except for the fact that they removed species prerequisites, which (IMHO) make them garbage. They tried this nonsense in 4E, it didn't work for me then and it doesn't work for me now. I get the idea that a DM may want to tell the story of the one in a...

I've tried that, spreadsheet and all (my excel skills are quite good), but it still takes up so much table time it's crazy. I have two or three players that are so into this part of the game it's ridiculous--they weigh every item, thinking about how they can maximize it long term, then beg and...