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I borrowed a few books from there quite a while ago, but then it became lost so I haven't been able to return the books. Now I'm concerned about the late fees, I hope the library stays lost...

This sounds like a cool method for leveling in a performance game, but I think 95% of real players are going to decide that the appropriate narrative moment to level up is immediately, during breakfast. (The remaining 5% will forget that they are eligible to level up until the other players...

Fighter; replaced by Valor Bard Rogue; replaced by Dance Bard Cleric; replaced by Glamour Bard Wizard; replaced by Lore Bard

The BDSM community would like to have a word with you...

With the kind of staff turnover WotC has, it wouldn't surprise me if the people who were against portraying slavery in D&D are long gone, and the current team is more willing to experiment with edgy topics.

Larian didn't work for WotC though. I doubt that WotC gained any automatic rights to all the IP in BG3, game engines are far too valuable for that. Any IP transfer in the license contract was probably restricted to characters and lore.

I genuinely don't think it's healthy to engage with content you intensely dislike. Better to focus on the stuff you love instead of what you hate.

Maybe you should take a break from this thread if it makes you feel unwell?

That depends entirely on how many rests the party takes. A Battlemaster archer who uses Action Surge and Precision Attack to turn Sharpshooter misses to hits will outdamage the Ranger by so much that it's not funny.

I believe that's how Rule 34, started, but people couldn't help themselves from filling out the rest of the list.

Garbage archers? A Battlemaster fighter with Sharpshooter and Precision Attack is possibly the best archer build in 5e. High and consistent damage, and can be combined with other tricks, like Crossbow Master. Not as good in 5.5 because of the nerf to Sharpshooter, but I bet it can still work.

I think it's positive that they want to promote user-generated content. The worst scenario is if they just replace human artists with AI while still serving fans the same static content at the same price as before. Anyway, that displacer beast looks cool! It's not perfect, the "tentacles" are...

I see the appeal of playing an oddball character, but when everybody is odd, nobody is odd.

"Backgrounds" of the game mechanical kind in 5e are only ever mentioned in the context of creating Player Characters. There is no reason to think that NPCs have them. 0th level characters also aren't a thinkg in 5e. Player characters have levels, NPCs have Challenge Ratings.