Recent content by UngainlyTitan

I have generally started at level1 but I also generally use published material. I am ameniable to to starting at higher levels Especially if asked. I tend to level up rapidly at the beginning anyway.

They exist because there is a demand for different caster conceptions. Their problems stem from the fact that wizard came first and most of its class features in spells. The Warlock has a better framework and it has got better but the sorceror suffers. IMHO, detect magic should be a soceror...

All true, I was giving an extreme example of the power disparity. There was still a lot of.considerations of rank, privilage and station to track. Servants and labourers had different experiences than farmers, tradespeople and burghers before you ever get into the graduations of nobility. We...

Most of us would not want to recreate actual history, people had limited agency in much of history, nobles could outright murder lower class people and get away with it as long as they could frame it in defence of their honour. Most games have a very flat social structure in compared to the...

Making Beyond a better tool for the users, the third parties and for themselves is something that they should be putting a lot of thought and effort into. As for a new edition, of course, you make a strong point but one of the things that really strikes me about 5e is that even though there has...

This depends on 6e, a 6e with no CC licence would not attract any third party support. However, a 6e that brought most of the fans with it would also bring along the third-party market as the WoTC D&D would still be the biggest market and the one with the most niches that a third-party creator...

Just wanted to add to my post, I do not know when it started but I remember reading that a lot of the farmers in western Europe that became serfs in the early feudal era were originally Roman citizens but their citizenships was conditional to remaining working the land they had been given. This...

That is a very astute point. The Romans reduced their dependence on slaves in the early empire period due the 3 major servile wars in the previous century (of which Spartacus was only the last). The with no major conquest in the empire era, slave got too expensive and the security costs too high.

Do not get too hung up on the labels, Micah has a version of D&D that he loves and calls "sim", whether it is or not is beside the point, but he feels that WoTC has been drifting away from his preferred style for years now and bemoans that fact and also dislikes anything he perceives supports...

I read that line and went "a wha de wha? and a who?" I know i could look them up but I have not had my coffee yet.

test Edit: It would appear so, the button is there and the dialog appears. I did not attempt to submit a report, the mods have enough to do.

I would that it really has no specific LotR roots, Lord of the Ring is one of many well springs whose waters fed the thing that is D&D. Every new editions and often within editions in setting books D&D reach out into the pop culture fantasy mind share and grabbed something or several somethings...

D&D have never been really medieval to my mind anyway. It has been this weird mix of what I consider a mid-century Hollywood visual medieval aesthetic and sword and sorcery which is really its own thing and does not map onto any period of history outside the mythical Wild West. It ranges from...

I have noticed that when I read the site on a phone, the re

While that may yet happen, I doubt that WoTC or Hasbro can make such an offer at this point in time.