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I suspect "skill monkey" is not what they're talking about, but you're not wrong that what exactly counts in the archetype is a pretty...

We’re planning on running a full campaign with it starting next year. We’ve just been doing some one shots for the past few weeks to try...

Well, the problem is that the class originally called "Thief" has changed in both name and function over time in D&D multiple times, and...

I was just curious. I backed SotWW, but it may well be that I'll never play/run it, and I did play a whole campaign of SotDL so I wondered.

Except I was around when the thief came into existance, and other that whatever they called secret strike back then, it was nothing but...

Yet they clearly do in a lot of places. Ask why the D&D magic system has propagated so many places.

I don't wear jewelry -- I don't care for it. That said, my wife got me a wedding ring with a band of meteorite worked into it. It's the...

I'm theoretically a boomer, but never really associated with them.

Ironically, as a movie, I think Rocketship X-M was the better movie. Destination Moon was arguably better as science fiction since it...

The oddity of the thief as it originally was created was it was the first skill oriented class, but was only going to really be good for...

I suspect their point is the dedicated class/role called "thief" is largely a D&D artifact that, to the degree its elsewhere is because...

I can see an argument for a general purpose skill monkey in a class system where most other classes are focused on special abilities and...

Back when I was training to become a lapidary specialist for a jeweler a long, long time ago (it didn't stick), one of the first things...

Re: From the “experience creates wisdom” files, I just avoided using unsuitable materials for a nifty beadwork design I had in mind...

Sure, someone, somewhere in the business will need a computer.. But we're talking about a single position here I think. Someone wanting...