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The only explicitly Marxist game I know of is Avalon Hill's Class Struggle, which is not very good, but: Hegemony, already mentioned by a few people in the thread, has the players each controlling a different economic class in the class struggle, so is at least in the neighborhood. Imperial is...

Unbelievable. How can y'all leave out the most iconic monster of all, the one monster featured in every single piece of D&D cover art? I speak, of course, of the invisible stalker.

Gateway to Adventure refers to a TSR ad from 1979/1980. TSR - Q&A with Gary Gygax

There is an example in the Monster Manual that makes clear the subdual probability is cumulative. 1e says "The breath weapon causes damage equal to the dragon's hit points (half that amount if a saving throw is made)". It is not explicit whether that means current or maximum hit points...

One other reason not to represent yourself, and why even lawyers (usually) hire other lawyers to represent them, is that your emotional investment in the case hinders your judgement. You might (for example) get caught up in making a particular argument a particular way because "I'm RIGHT, dang...

Respectfully, this kind of appropriation always affects the immigrant communities more than the people still living in the country. Irish people maybe be amused, annoyed, or offended by the stereotypes, but it doesn't affect them that much because it's happening far away and doesn't make a...

Yea. I'm wary of trying to move all of the customization into feats, but I'd like a little more customization than 5e subclasses. Maybe at 10th level you can choose a sub-subclass. Not necessarily. I think if you're concerned about 1-level dipping, restrict 1-level dipping on the whole rather...

Well, I would argue you're confusing existential and universal quantifiers. There is a difference between the statements "There exists a y < x such that f( y ) > f( x )" and "For all x > 0, y < x implies f( y ) > f( x )" Or, in your terms, "Making Y-change to the current state [at the time I...

I specifically brought up the Jackie Chan ladder fight scene with regard to Weapon Mastery (amazing that he had the foresight to take Weapon Mastery for ladders that day!), so I'm gonna take credit/blame for the Brawler. I meant for them to give it to the Monk though. The Champion is now the...

That is not really my point. I don't want to continue side-tracking this thread, but just to clarify: I am not expressing an opinion on the quality nor attempting to define it. I am only pointing out the ways "more content" is not inherently better, assuming you agree with Orius's premise that a...

Then you could have said that in the first place, instead of which is not at all the same thing.

The "promise" is to replace it with a) free time not spent sifting through low-quality monsters, and b) some of your money back because you're buying 1 supplement instead of 2. Sometimes less really is more. It's not something to act incredulous about, even if reasonable people may disagree...

I guess it depends on what kind of scholars you think of. If you think of wizards like liberal arts scholars, no, Fireball doesn't really fit. But if they're more like chemists, physicists, or engineers, then most wizards think explosions are awesome (as long as you don't much care about the...

In fact, the US Supreme Court issues plenty of 9–0 rulings. Except for the two most recent terms, the plurality (and sometimes the majority) of cases have been 9–0 every term since before WotC bought TSR (at least; scotusblog only has stats going back to 1995–06 term). (Source: scotusblog.com)...

In fact, the designers of SECOND edition supposedly wanted to switch to ascending AC, but couldn't because of concerns about backwards compatibility. Something I learned about playtests when working on video games: if players tell you something is a problem, they are almost always right; if...

I don't think it's possible to make real sense of either. They probably never existed and are simply misinterpretations of drawings of armor. However, looking at 1e, I think we can make at least a LITTLE more sense of it: 1e DMG, p. 27: 1e DMG, p. 165: Plates set in the leather to me suggests...

As LLMs exist now, no. If you've tried AI Dungeon, that's sort of what you're talking about, and it can get pretty silly, pretty quickly. It will give responses that contradict previous ones, ignore context, or don't follow logically. It's more like playing D&D in a dream world where things...