Recent content by Parmandur

Most of the changes that ended up in 2024, minis the final standardization of the verbiage.

Yes. That's one of the big reasons they streamlined this back in Tasha's.

It really feels more like a streamlining that makes it more straightforward than a complication. Like most 2024 changes, it isn't major but makes the game smoother.

Well, it is more that it takes 6 years to make a game nowadays.

I wouldn't take the responses here to be remotely representative.

No, people are sad about the association by association. There ia no "guilt" aspect, it is not a crime to work with fringe political conspkracy theorists. Juat profoundly dissappointing.

That actually makes me feel a little worse?

I wouldn't expect the numbering but that title is Gold

Eye of the Beholder...? The Xanathar has been big in 5E books and marketing for years.

Two different things: quarter of is 2:15, quarter to is 1:45

Oooooh, interesting. Alternative theories to Dark Sun now occur to me: Gamma World 2026 or a D&D Supers game. Asian and these abilities would fit well woth those, with a note saying "mix and match to your heart's content"...

You assume they will ever overhaul the rules again.

Yeah, it is an interesting question to contemplate, but that is what they have stated that is what they are doing. I think you might be onto something about which are inte ded for Intelligence boosting Backgrounds: and in current 5E rules, Backgrounds are precisely for gating optimization and...

In 4E Dark Sun, not everyone had Wild Talents IIRC. It was Feat gated.

Yes, but they are presented as ten distinct Feats, with the note that they plan to use them for Backgrounds. So, given thwt, crowding the undoubtedly overstuffed FR books with that seems unlikely. Dark Sun or something new would seem most likely, but FR has too much other ground to cover, and...