Recent content by Xotli

Okay, first off, sorry to be pedantic, but neither ferrets nor meerkats are rodents. No rodents in Beastmaster, unless one of the eagles eats a mouse at some point. ;) I played a 2E beastmaster-style character once, using the "meistersinger" kit from the Complete Bard's Handbook. I had a...

Sure, I agree that few players are going to be watching all the content. But I was just pointing out that if we accept that streaming is bringing in a majority of the new players, they have to be watching something. :-) They can't all be watching Critical Role. Maybe some of them checked out...

@Nathaniel Lee, I think the majority of your points are good ones, and I certainly don't mean to start an argument. But I would like to dive down just a bit on this one part: I still don't quite buy this ... I wish there was some statistic we could consult that would settle the question, but I...

Speaking as a professional software developer for the past 34 years—including running my own software development business for 12 of those years—and also speaking as someone who's been playing D&D for even longer than that, and also speaking as someone who's tried to create my own versions of...

Yep, that's perfect; thx for the assist! Awesome. Thx for all the hard work you put into this series.

I was just thinking that a creature with eyes all over its body would be really hard to blind. Now, you could blind me by just shining a bright flashlight in my eyes. :D But then again that wouldn't work if I had eyes in the back of my head ... If we look at the spells that can cause...

Sorry for the late reply, but I couldn't resist commenting on this one: I actually played one of the ofanim in an In Nomine campaign once. :D I dig this interpretation of them, but I'm wondering why All-Around Vision doesn't confer immunity to being blinded? (Also, if it were me I would...