Paul Farquhar's latest activity

Yeah, it's er... not great. I've maintained for a long time that Swen is essentially kind of an idiot who is good at basically two...

BG3 has an “18” certificate. Everything WotC puts out in print has to be “PG” (don’t offend the parents).

That's my point: if you have to make a pretty big rewrite/homebrew, then I don't feel the game is particularly suited for the genre. For...

Yep, it’s the use of the word “half” that WotC wants to avoid applying to people.

But if you can create it, there is no need for WotC to do so.

Call it what you like, it sells books so WotC aren't going to deviate from it. The majority of the growth in D&D has come from...

This is about level of complexity. WotC won’t make the game any more complex because KISS made the game accessible to the mass market...

I kind of miss the monstrous beast category from 3e. I remember a year or so ago a thread discussing stat blocks for domestic cats, and...

What I have noticed, having lived through 5/6 edition changes, is just how little anger there is. Not that anyone is saying "everything...

In terms of predictions, I expect to see thi-kreen next - most of the other Dark Sun species can be covered by refluffing existing species.

Actually, moving on from that, one thing I would do in a S&S setting is make beasts much more powerful. Beasts in 5e are generally...

This was 4e’s big mistake. If you are designing a game from scratch you can separate out the melee class from the archery class. But...

Youre basically dismissing what's a big deal for people. Espicially since you had around 30 years of fighters being good at archers...

For some DMs personal pet project, go nuts. For an Official D&D setting published by Wizards of the Coast? Hard no. Personally, I...