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5e does, we used to have worthwhile skill systems with subsystems of their own like dms best friend if you go back the ranger spell list was largely pulled from druid but a few levels behind back then

Agreed. Funhy enough though, big parts of starlink kuiper and the like are the result of some research Microsoft did like 20something years ago in collaboration with what was then one of the bigger satellite data providers. They decided that it would cost many times global gdp to launch with...

It's incredibly difficult to shed waste heat in space where you can't dump it into waste water or the atmosphere like air conditioning units do. The iss doesn't have much computing power by datacenter standards either has a huge heatsink just to shed heat the whole "solar power ai datacenters...

While true, wotc went from respecting that baggage to full "hold mah beer" levels of near binary compatability in service to a vocal subset of online voices going through their first edition shift rather than correcting bad expectations. I've seen fan made video game mods make more significant...

Chatdev is a thing. With that said, Chris Cox gave a pretty reasonable use it as useful to teams statement that was far better than the prior absurd claim of playing d&d. with 40(?) other players who all use AI someone from wotc/hasbro made a. Couple years ago

Agreed. IIRC back in 3.5 people didn't really even consider it a crit build unless it was getting towards crit on like 12-15 or better for 3x damage. Even then it was usually critting sneak and elemental dice or something

I think post MiC it was pretty decent once the gm was equipped with things like conceptual /metaphorical components (ie the sigh of a cat) because those launched into players thinking and brainstorming adventure seeds/shells for the GM a lot of the time as part of creating the magic item

I linked to the Perkins tweet about magic items because they are that important & I wasn't about to go find the crawford video clip gushing about it. I stand by my post55 statement though & I'll use the 3.5 dmg to demonstrate why it's so important, mainly because it was the last adventuring day...

This thread exploded six pages last night but I've done a lot of math across my various 5e tables over the years & never noticed any problems with ranger PCs contributing or keeping up with anyone but late★ tier2★ & tier3★+ warlock★/monk★. Perhaps part of the reason some people feel like...

Pretty sure this artwork of sword & shield equipped folks predates gygax by centuries. This impressive statue of Sir William Wallace too. Sword & shield looks impressive, is easy to depict, and they each convey a lot about the person with them (authority strength intelligence protection...

No they don't? One goes here where a YouTuber calls for a survey brigade with hysteria that resulted in a video with more upvotes at the time Crawford was talking about the number of responses to the survey in question, kinda central to the 70% point. And the other here where people from wotc...

Weird, you might have misclicked or something. I double checked that I didn't copy/paste wrong and see three different links across the two replies you made to my post, one of the three literally describing Netheril itself beyond the bits I mentioned. Knowing about Netheril is critical to...

Why the surprise? 70% or higher is hardly what could be called "vision" of any sort, yet here we are with the survey brigade edition. The obelisk netheril plot would have needed to survive a review but netheril was full of bad people & inequality.

If you wanted a magic school that wasn't just harry Potter Hogwarts with the serial numbers filed off, you might want to mine a webnovel called warlock of the magus world. It's a pretty good non-english web novel that mixes d&d and somewhat dark magic school with wuxia elements. Plenty of...