Recent content by thenightgaunt

Speaking of bad edition conversion/compatibility advice from WotC, this might be another "my memory is terrible" moment, but it came up recently with WotC's claims that the new thing will be fully backwards compatible with current 5e. Does anyone else remember 4e marketing claiming that it was...

That's always a tricky one to read. What's silly to one might be hurtful to another. Like I thought the animated bits were funny. My wife and I still joke about the gnome. "I'm a monster. Rawr!" But there are some things in the Wizards Presents books that, yeah, I found insufferable and...

Yep. And we got that with that big "Monsters of the Multiverse" book they did for 5e after he was put in charge after Mearls got demoted. And from the accounts it sounds like that one fizzled in sales compared to Volo's and Fizbin's (both more lore heavy books). Not to mention what he did to...

I think a big part of the gnome hate in 4e's design there was their desire to avoid gnomish inventors. That same section you quoted is where they say the tossed that entire popular image because World of Warcraft had done it. So because WoW did it, they decided to erase a bunch of their own...

Oh they're great to get into the heads of the designers. You just have to read between the lines, ignore the pages of fluff, and keep a bit of rawhide nearby so that when the red mist starts to descend you have something to bite down on. There are gems in there like how they decided there were...

Thank you. That one is familiar (But then I did finally read that book last year), but I'm not sure if that's what sparked the moment back then. It doesn't resonate with the memory if you know what I mean. But that could be it. It does have that same WTF feel to it. Like, one of the designers...

I'd say this was from some time the year before the PHB came out. So it had to be sometime in late 2007 to early 2008. We weren't involved in the playtest at the time so knowing when that came out isn't a help sadly. But all we knew at that time was the little bits that had been released, and...

Like I said. In hindsight, I think something from the interview had been misunderstood and that they were talking about skill challenges or similar. But I recall it coming across really bad at the time. But maybe we misunderstood the quote. But that one line "playing the game wrong" is something...

Speaking of bad marketing. Ok, so this might be me hallucinating or misremembering events back then (it was 16 years ago and my ADHD butt has issues recalling clearly what happened 3 years ago). I swear I remember reading something back when 4e was coming out, where some of the designers said...

Yeah, but to be fair he sounded a bit high that entire interview. Like he didn't know anything about the setting but knew enough to basically blather on for 10 minutes about nothing.

Woooooow. This is like a parody. They think that what really matters is More Art??? And half-elf is "racist"? Wooooooooow.

Donno, but I'm going to buy up at least PDF copies of the books I don't have just in case.

I'm running a canned 5e campaign. I just had my players build characters with the new heritage/class system. Most are used to 5e so it really wasn't a huge leap for them and they've taken to it just fine.

Thank you!

I'm using it to run a version of Dragon Heist. Yeah I have to update the monster stats. I've got the pack for the campaign via roll20, but when I created the game and had it use the 5e advanced character sheets, it played havoc with the monsters. The hp on the tokens on maps are still there, but...