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Yeah, I’m not sure about the card thing simply because I store my rpgs on bookshelves and when a game needs extra specialised bits and pieces like card decks and nonstandard dice it just becomes a storage headache. I was going to have a read through the QuickStart at some point to try to work...

Only part serious. I find your explanation of how this happened entirely convincing, but if this sort of thing had just happened once in isolation, this’d be a non-story. This is just such an incredibly self-inflicted bullet to the foot. Sure, WotC contracts this stuff out to an outside...

I guess it’s time to reset the ‘days since Wizards did something miserably oppressively joyless and then claimed it was a mistake when it people started calling them out on it’ counter back to zero. Again.

Playing as a paladin - Bless to start with (assuming i have enough prep time that i can spare an action to cast it). Shield of Faith if i don't, or if i fail a concentration check at some point and have to recast. Higher-level slots get saved for smites (and sometimes instantaneous spells like...

In 5e, the commune spell description specifically says that it gives ‘correct’ answers, in completely unambiguous yes/no form (with an ‘unclear’ option as a dm get out of jail free card for a case when a y/n would result in a misleading oversimplification) Divination has always been a bit...

In D&D the eternal problem is spells like Commune. Doctrinal or hierarchical schisms are had to sustain when once you hit level 9 you can basically just dial up your god and ask for an authoritative yes/no answer. It's the ultimate phone-a-friend option. So you'd have to think about how the...

Historically I don’t think it was generally done, with the exception being the maintenance of sieges. You read about the 'campaigning season' and 'winter quarters' a lot for a reason. The weather is only part of it, the need to release your men to go home and help with the harvest is the big...

A Lloth cleric should get Web as a domain spell, surely?

The physical books aren’t far off apparently. Here in Australia they’re just going through customs, so probably another couple of weeks. I honestly don’t know if the pdf is out yet. I tend to wait until the physical copy is out, reading that is so much more satisfying…

I keep track of special magic ammunition but I don’t routinely require tracking of mundane ammunition. I treat ‘requires ammunition’ as a Flaw. If the PCs are isolated away from source of new arrows, and are using a lot of them, then every so often I’ll invoke the Flaw, give them an inspiration...

I wish I believed that. WotC has been paring down the amount of lore in all their products for some time now.

Except for broad discussions of the physical effectiveness of arrows vs armour, I'd suspect that the experience of bowhunters is probably more applicable to D&D-style combats than the experience of massed military formations of archers. You are talking about a situation where you're trying to...

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy both. I'm DMing on in-person campaign, and playing in on VTT campaign. The VTT campaign is the group I started playing with 20+ years ago. Now we live conservatively an hour and a half drive apart, and the DM has deteriorating vision which makes tabletop play...

Fallen London squeaks into the $1m club, closing at $1 010 694.

Fallen London has edged over $900k with 30-odd hours to go. I wouldn't put my house on it going over $1m, but it's got a decent shot.

That's never been my problem with D&D mounted combat. The big problem is mount fragility at higher levels. Drop a fireball on a high-level mounted party and they just become a slightly singed high-level walking party. The lack of durability of mounts compared to PCs just makes mounted combat...

Has anyone said ‘mounted combat’ yet? Because, mounted combat.

I’m half tempted by the M&M one, because heaven knows that’s a system that deserves more support. I’m pretty sure that this is the guy who just does the stat blocks of thinly disguised Marvel characters though, and unless you’ve got an encyclopedic knowledge of Marvel, most of the content will...

nuCottage?

Yeah, I understand that, it’s more about how you manage group creation if one player wants a White Scar, another created an Ultramarine, then there’s a Salamander or something. Why are these high-ranking officers from different legions (which are probably located in very different parts of the...