Recent content by SiCK_Boy

French translations also seem on hold for some time... The first translator was much more open and transparent in their communications about upcoming products and such, but since they changed, it’s hard to get any news.

My wizard was swallowed on the first round of a fight with a Froghemoth. That made me realize how debilitating the "blinded" condition is; my character's new goal in life is to find a solution in case this ever happens again. The DM was lenient enough to rule that I could still target the...

Some people have already pointed out the Lone Wolf and Fighting Fantasy series, but in French, all of those 80s/90s gamebooks were published as a single collection of "Livres dont vous êtes le héros", which included not only Lone Wolf and Fighting Fantasy, but also The Grail Quest as well as the...

For all the people wondering about a potential “story” for a D&D movie / series, just look at any of the epic adventure modules WotC has published... Tyranny of Dragons would make a good series, as would Princes of the Apocalypse, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist or pretty much any of those modules...

As much as I love Ed Greenwood and the original Grey Box Forgotten Realms, there have been so many more people working, designing and expanding on the Realms that I don’t think his impact on the game can be compared to Gary Gygax. As beloved as the Realms have become over the years, they didn’t...

Anyone ever use the option to have the DM validates character movement before the token moves? Is it as cumbersome as it sounds, and does it prevent the kinds of behaviors described by OP with players scouting large chunks of the map by moving their tokens everywhere across the screen?

Part of it stems from the player’s handbook itself. The way half-orcs and tieflings are presented, there are explicit examples of innkeepers getting ready for a barroom fight to explode when an half-orc enters, while shopkeepers will lock their door or hide their ware if a tiefling walks the...

That's very interesting. I didn't realize the extent of the mess with the Korean product. What I find the most surprising is how the local company used a kickstarter-equivalent to sell their products, rather than following traditional retail channels. Is that common in Korean for hobby-type...

Implication may have been the wrong choice of word. I agree that few people want to roleplay racism just for fun. I meant it more in the sense of exploring said non-human society and its relations to the world of the setting. For example, the description of the dragonborn is insisting very...

To be fair, WotC refusing to approve subsequent work may be their way to "implement" the ending of the contract (through the breach clauses included in the contract), rather than having it wait for some judicial approval or giving Gf9 an option to drag things out while still benefiting from it...

Because the games I've played in or DMed in were mostly set in the Forgotten Realms, which is mostly human-centric. It's also the assumed default baseline from the PHB. Others have pointed out the importance of setting and the feeling of the setting in regards to how races are used and...

Fair enough. Although the argument that nobody at WotC speaks or read Korean seems wrong; someone at WotC actually approved the translated text before it got printed, so they must have had at least one person. Using subcontractors for translation and distribution in foreign markets is a business...

By asking specifically for a RAW interpretation, the OP was certainly not looking for common sense. The RAW is all but common sense. It grants every combatant full 360 vision of almost unlimited range, perfect knowledge of where everyone is located in a fight, etc. None of it is realistic or...

It's based on my own observations and experience. Again, not very scientific, and certainly full of bias based on the kind of players I associate with. But I've never seen anyone in my games really play out the implications of a non-human race in a human-centric world. I've seen plenty of drow...

We don't have statements from each side. We have a statement from Gf9 that tells us what WotC said / did (which could be, theoretically, false, but I doubt it). If you read the full text of the Gf9 claim, it states that WotC notified them on Nov. 9th 2020 that they (WotC) wanted to put a stop...