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I'd add a bit more: And you have to carefully remember which paragraphs of text are for which edition, since the definitions of alignment (especially the L/C axis) have changed a lot over time. And then you have to see which definition the person you're talking to says they're using, and figure...

So being evil also means dumber and/or less competent at fighting, in addition to chaotic meaning acting dumber and less competent? This whole thing of 'the more chaotic and/or evil they are, the fewer tactics they use' doesn't appear to be supported by game text on alignments at all. I just...

Exactly; most people don't watch these things all that closely unless there's a reason to. I'm not saying that their claims are legit, or even that I'd have bought stuff from them (I have a lot more 'oh that looks interesting' than actual purchases in my history), but the initial mention of...

So alignment overrides INT score rather badly, or 'C' alignment means 'likes to lose fights by fighting less effectively'? That's not the way I've ever used alignment, and I don't think having intelligent enemies refuse to use sensible tactics adds anything useful to the game.

How do you play a devil and demon differently, and how does the "L" or "C" factor into that? All of the differences I can think of are spelled out in other text (including text from other editions and other forms of the game, like CRPGs), not just from the two-letter code.

Same as now. The alignment doesn't really tell you much about their organization and actions, they're both "E" and the L/C distinction doesn't tell you all that much. That devils make contracts and honor them isn't true of all "L" creatures, and there's nothing that prevents a "C" creature from...

You know you've screwed up your brand reputation when the company who you were going to license the brand to for $10 per year decides it's better to just change their name completely and register a new trademark (at a cost of about 40 years of licensing) rather than be associated with you.

That sounds about right, which is just so dumb. If you add (in a positive way) to step 2), and make step 3) 'license the TSR/Gygax name for people to put on their games', then I'm pretty sure you'd get a decent amount of 4) without having to do a whole lot of work. I immediately had nostalgia...

What I'm using as a master bedroom is actually at the far end of the HVAC system (the original master bedroom is closest to the HVAC), so I set the thermostat based on both 'is most of the house comfortable' and 'is the master bedroom at a temp I can sleep at'. I normally set my AC to 73, which...

I'm terrible at coming up with names on the fly, so I usually have a page or two of quick NPC name/description/quirks to draw from. Once I use an NPC I'll add them to my notes and cross them off the list so PCs can come back to them later. This makes it feel to players like I've detailed every...

In 5e, alignment is already mostly defunct - it has almost no mechanical effect, and more of the effects is does have are legacy (like items keyed to certain alignments). I generally just use a loose 'good, or evil' idea and the occasional 'only someone good/evil can use this item,' with law and...

You're right, I was misremembering it, so it's slightly better than I thought. Still is going to be easy to get around without a contrived battlefield setup, but not as ineffective on someone standing in it.

I'm staying out of the big back and forth, but I will point out that grease isn't meaningful area denial unless you make the terrain extremely constrained in a weird way specifically to fit the spell. The vast majority of creatures can just jump over a grease effect without needing a roll as...

I quoted you making a 'both sides' argument about the need for "Dialogue" with outright bigots instead of condemning them in this very thread. I did not take anything outside of context, and if I did you could point to what relevant context I ignored instead of just making a bland and baseless...

I have no interest whatsoever in a dialogue, with or without the capitalization, with people who don't consider me and the people close to me fully human. That's not a little misstep, that's a major example of bigotry. This attempt to paint people who don't consider it reasonable to put their...

5e combat is pretty lethal if you take the gloves off and give the PCs dangerous opponents. It does have fewer instant-death effects than 1e did (especially 'save or die' poison on minor enemies), but combat gets lethal quickly if PCs are not facing encounters that are designed to just be a...

I think it's interesting that these tough guys have a sign at their museum saying "Better not play here if you're easily offended", likely because they consider themselves rugged specimens of True Manhood unlike the wimpy pronoun-shifting youth of today. Yet when those wimpy youths and their...

Right - if someone dug up and scanned an old journal where Ernie wrote that in the 80s, 'what it was like in the 80s' would a legitimate defense. But he wrote it 4 decades later, 3 decades later than the 90s where there was a big shift. And it's even worse because the group Ernie was attacking...

I didn't notice this before, but I agree that being LGBT is NOT a creed by any normal definition of the word. "Creed" normally refers to religious beliefs or philosophical beliefs similar to a religion, it doesn't refer to gender identity or sexual orientation or the like. Speaking as a queer...

Yeah, you need dissonant whispers for the 'force opportunity attacks' shenanigans. Lightning Lure, Thorn Whip, invocated Eldritch Blast, and swarmkeeper Rangers can still have a lot of fun moving people around inside of Spike Growth, however. A Swarmkeeper who takes the druid cantrip fighting...