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For a 20 year old game, it can't be that expensive.

Shadow of the Weird Wizard is a high fantasy version of Shadow of the Demon Lord, right? Is there any good resource for someone who knows nothing about the game to get an overview of the basic resolution and character systems?

When magic is real, is there really a difference? Arcane, esoteric, and occult knowledge all refers to things that are assumed to be true, but known only to very few.

What is the average development time for RPGs from announcement to release?

No, recovered memory therapy. That sounds like manipulating a person into believing they remember something that they never experienced.

I never even heard of that term before, but just the name makes me instantly think that we all know it better under the term gaslighting. And than the guy married the patient he was gaslighting. Yeah...

D&D's idea of protecting nature against civilization has always been very late-20th century.

The one that must not be named. Also Star Trek 4.

Neither. This being able to choose half the maximum seems like an unnecessary extra step.

Does anyone have an idea why the item creation feat Forge Ring has a prerequisite of caster level 12th, even though the majority of rings in the DMG can be made with a caster level of 5th or lower? Sure, unlike other magic items, a character can wear two rings instead of only one. So...

As a bisexual myself, I know what sentiment they are expressing. Probably shouldn't have used the term bisexual in their statement (okay, certainly shouldn't), but I feel I know exactly what RPG trend they are referring to, and I really don't like it either. (Doesn't mean I might not vehemently...

One thing I only noticed last week is that Combat Expertise does not replace defensive fighting, but you can do both and they stack. The PHB mentions it explicitly, but the SRD does not include that sentence. And it's not an errata change. To me, this feels like an action you would take when...

Combat feats are to fighters are spells are to spellcasters and skills are to rogues (and maybe bards and rangers). They are the classes main class features where you have freedom to put together your own preferred selection. The feats that fighters can pick as their bonus feats seem to be...

Continuing my reading of the PHB, one thing that stands out as weird is counerspells. When did they think this would be used? You must have the correct spell prepared, and then during the fight you have to ready an action to counterspell. You kind of have to know what spells an enemy will be...

That page is very rambling with quotes that consists only of single sentences and given no context, and often no clear indication what the author wants to show with them. Some of the quotes seem to not even be by Howard himself but are completely unrelated, with no clear indication of that being...

I think the designers of the PHB understood very well how few feats most characters get. It's the writers of the splatbooks that introduced a thousand more feats who I strongly suspect did not really think things through. I don't think the crazy character build minigame was intentional. Three...

What about druid mom? For probably maximum cringe.

And then stepped out again?

For wandering monster lists, that's super important. If you make a random list of any creatures that exist in the campaign setting, your randomized encounters become actual random nonsense.