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I didn't make a truth claim about WotC's intent or non-intent by their use of wording. You did.

They used a different word. Prove that they intended to make a distinction by doing so.

Of course they don't provide numbers; that's standard behavior. Businesses generally don't provide numbers to the public unless they're legally required to do so. But that doesn't mean that what they said is unclear. "Fastest-selling" and "best-selling" are obvious, if nonspecific. Did they...

WotC minion: "Uh, sir, people are questioning the wording of our press release, referring to the Player's Handbook as a 'product' instead of a 'book', and about being the 'fastest-selling' instead of the 'best-selling'. It'd be great if you could clear that up for folks at the earnings call."...

But clerics have an advantage over other spellcasters for precisely this reason: their typical spellcasting implement, the Holy Symbol, can be worn rather than held. This doesn't help for spells with Somatic or Material components, but you also see this principle operating in spell selection...

Well, that's not quite true. For example, a 3.0e adventure could throw errors for a 3.5e DM by calling for a check against Alchemy, Animal Empathy, Innuendo, Intuit Direction, Pick Pocket, Read Lips, Scry, or Wilderness Lore, and such skills showing up in a monster/NPC stat block could at least...

Exactly. Neither the new version of the subclass, nor the associated fiction, has been published yet. How can you claim the subclass isn't supported by new fiction when the book in which it will appear hasn't come out?

It's like laundering money. If you steal some money and you're caught with that money, you're going to jail. But steal some money, pass it through a bunch of hands (bank accounts, cryptocurrency, etc.), and it becomes a lot more difficult to tell that it's the same money as that which was...

That's not really true, though. The Nûmenorean kingdoms never had much sway over Wilderland, and much of The Hobbit takes place there. Canonically, Thorin's party should've had some problems understanding others and making themselves understood after crossing the Misty Mountains, but they...

Yeah, and there isn't a single scene I can recall in one of Tolkien's Middle-earth stories where intelligibility was an issue. In First Age Beleriand, everyone ended up speaking Sindarin; even Men and Dwarves learned it. And in the Third Age stories most people are familiar with, everyone speaks...

Only Quenya and Sindarin, the two main Elven tongues, were well-developed; Sindarin, the "common" tongue of Elves in Middle-earth by the Third Age, being moreso. There are tiny bits of other languages that show up: Khuzdul (the Dwarven tongue), the Black Speech, the language of the Rohirrim and...

Is this actually ambiguous in any specific case? If we look at a few specific examples: Death Ward says "The first time the target would drop to 0 Hit Points before the spell ends, the target instead drops to 1 Hit Point" (emphasis mine) The words would and instead clearly describe a situation...

Oh, same. All of the 4e games I played sounded just like that. ;)

Side note: There's already a Path of the Beast, so a different name would probably help avoid confusion.

But... that's the same as in 2014. In fact, with new features like the Druid's Primal Strike and the Moon Druid's Lunar Form, 2024 Druids were significantly upgraded in most ways relative to other classes. So is the problem really the 2024 version of Wild Shape, or Wild Shape in general?

For anyone really interested in a more Biblical take on angels, you should check out Apocalisse, from Acheron Games. The angels from Ezekiel are there (CR 10 ophanim), as well as malakhim (CR 2), cherubim, seraphim (CR 15), four-headed six-winged tetramorphs, mysterious mighty angels (ginormous...

Balance based on being able to bypass Barbarian DR? But I thought you said: You seem to have lost the thread of your own argument a long time ago, if there ever was one.

Then barbarians are in big trouble, and not just from monks. Witness: Available at level 1! Unlimited casting, no resource expenditure! Multiple attacks at higher levels, can be improved with invocations, AND it's ranged! Or how about this: Easily picked up by anyone at 1st level! Can be used...

You can! Five missiles at 5th level, one below the level where a monk starts doing Force damage. It's funny that you just brought up an example of making a class ability obsolete, in defense of not making a class abilities obsolete. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make anymore, or if...

First, you're the one who brought up PvP. This was a topic about fighting lycanthropes, when you said: And now you're changing goalposts. You were complaining about a monk's Force damage bypassing a barbarian's DR with: No one mentioned "auto win" until you did, just now. And in any case, how...