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He is a writer, the writing stage is over. It’s all down to the coders now.

Lrad on Baldurw Gate 1, Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age. Also involved with Mass Effect.

This has been the D&D philosophy since 1974. Some people have just been a little slow to notice.

I try to comfort myself with the knowledge a lot of companies would have made the patch 8 subclasses a paid DLC.

You'd think that! It's pretty clear they don't build monsters this way. Looking at most other NPC statblocks will tell you this. CR6...

NGL, given how precious little actually differs between 5.0 and 5.5e, this reads to me like the way Brennan Lee Mulligan (claims that)...

There is nothing wrong with having specific tastes. It just means you are less easily pleased than people who are more conformist. I...

True of many real world societies, but it’s still veiled for entertainment purposes (e.g. 300), just like lots of other bad stuff...

I think they're just going to be using the Unreal Engine like almost every other game out there. I'm pretty sure a bunch of the...

Given the way courts have been ruling, any lawsuit would likely fail. But you would probably buy in an engine, such as Unity 5, and tell...

I get where you're coming from, but I disagree. I think ignoring the online chatter and announcing things properly is the way to go...

That's why is a bad idea (and was established as such back in 3rd edition days, when they tried social balances for prestige classes)...

And the one Larian used for BG3 had already been in use for many years and was falling apart at the seams. I really don't like were...

PCs are adventurers - "nearby people" are generally the monsters they are fighting, and a death penalty is a badge of honour. As a...

It wasn't fun, no. Which is probably why the new version was bad. The people who were tasked with writing it would have gone to the...