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Just remember that you can meta-optimize as much as you like, but the DM will never run out of dragons until he wants to.

Now that is a Nerd job if there ever was one. Whoever gets the position is going to have a ton of fun!

Most potions just aren't powerful enough to justify spending an action to drink one, so bonus action potions is the way to go if you want potions to be useful in combat.

Flame Blade in 5e was never a melee weapon that could be used for attacks, it only ever allowed the caster to make a specific spell attack every round. So there's no particular reason to think that an updated Shadow Blade will follow the Flame Blade pattern, unless it's a deliberate nerf to make...

The point is that the weapon price requirement avoids the undefined situation where by the rules you can cast True Strike without actually having a weapon to attack with.

The trigger has to be something perceptible. Turns aren't perceptible. One easy and reliable trigger is "I attack when the wizard tells me". The wizard can speak the order to attack as a free action at any time.

This seems like a sound financial decision. The market for "live service" games has gotten really crowded, only the top games are making money. If you're only laying off 44 people after cancelling the project, it probably didn't have a sufficient budget to be competitive.

Why are these people joining a levelup5e game when they don't actually want to play levelup5e?

The difference is that part of the rules of RPGs is that the GM decides what the rules are, changing the rules as needed is part of the GMs role in the game. Also, the GM isn't necessarily the host. I've played in games where one of the players hosted the game at his home, provided beer and...

Maybe we shouldn't color-code dragons any more than we color-code humans?

Some spells: Fold Person (2nd) Find the Bath (6th) Fish (9th)

Sure it's possible. You can have a gaming community where everyone GMs at least occasionally, but not everyone ever runs a PC.

Supposedly Imoen was not intended to be a companion in BG2 past the tutorial dungeon. She would still get abducted and you'd spend the first half of the game looking for her. But by the time you catch up with her she would have been fully corrupted by Bhaals essence and turn into the Slayer, so...

Video game development is always a gamble. BG3 was probably one of the safer bets this decade, seeing how well received the early access release was back in 2020.

Did you read that article? It says Larian was on the brink of bankruptcy while they were developing Divinity: Original Sin. But D:OS was released in 2014 and was a major success, averting the bankruptcy and funding Larian's huge expansion. There's no sign of any particular money trouble for...