Recent content by Parmandur

Should have been in the new PHB, no lie.

Yeah there was a bunch of DM toll information in Van Richten's not being reprinted here based on what they are putting down, and even if it has a bunch of the same Domains that isn't necessarily a reprint if it is a different approach to them.

Honestly, there is no indication that they will reprint a bunch of stuff that was in Van Richten's here, similar to Rising from the Last War and Forge of the Artificer. Supplement rather than replacement.

I mean, I always said that his being in Ravenloft was the most likely eventuality, and it does seem to be where the artpeice is from. However, that does not preclude Champions or another upcoming Season being Dragonlance, with all the other Dragonlance stuff going on (such as the new premium...

Maybe: gotta be honest, just disliked them.

Responded to the survey, gave the Subclasses Green and the Feat Paths Red. Let them know in the comments that explicitly super evil options were a bad place to start with the design.

For player characters, I think D&D strikes a pretty solid medium: there are like 4 nice big choices (Species, Class, Subclass, Background) and some small knobs (Attributes, Feats, Skills) for individuation.

It is certainly a limitation, but limitations can be opportunities to build something creatively just as much as they are barriers.

That's why they didn't announce Warlock for most of the time they were working on it.

Right, as I said, modern D&D is unconcerned with it.

Sure, the PHB has firearms artificially frozen there, and doesn't address how they would impact armor.

Right, by having firearms frozen at a particular low point and by underemphasjzinf how they would impact combat. But modern D&D combat is about vibes, not war game simulation.

Right, that is why magic was handled the way it was in OD&D and AD&D: lots of difficulties and limitations. Like large artillery pieces in late Medieval times. That's part of why I say it probably does not matter for modern D&D much, with how much easier magic is to access and use.

No, they aren't meat points, though in the naval war game Gygax cribbed fit the rules they are the meat points of a ship. It's an abstraction to allow for quick resolution of combat. Thing is, it is a mathematical abstraction thst breaks down at a certain point...that point is gunpowder. But...

Fair point, but firearms do change the way warfare and fighting are conducted on a fundamental level: it is a singularity event, and it isn't possible to have a quick and dirty system that keeps sword and plate on the same plane as musketeers.