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Dark Sun playtest you say? Interesting...

Obviously, he is playing a Motion-captured Illithid captain on a Nautiloid. Speljammer confirmed!

I can go back to not caring about Ernie Gygax again? Since he has decided to auto-mute himself? The whole TSR 3.x fiasco seems like a company that had no business sense looking for someone to shift blame for not being able to release product. 'We would have released Giantlands with deluxe...

The problem is people don't want a gish. They want a fighter/mage that is comparable to their single-class fellows. It can't be as good as a wizard and a fighter at the same time. So we need to find the gestalt a bit better than Eldritch Knight (too fighter-y) or Bladesinger (too wizardy). I was...

Essentially Blue Age halflings were some kind of non-arcane bioartificers or genetic scientists. Psionics probably formed as a mutant allele in the Blue Age and became dominant in the Green Age.

I imagine being an Elminster or Volo-like narrator might not be out of the question. Perhaps he is cast as Dungeon Master?!

I was throwing out the Way of ___ stuff for psychometabolism in particular because, while descriptive, it is just ugly. I agree that the Way of Blank sounds very plain and made me think Monk more than Wizard.

Let's stop using 'skin walker'. It has connotations that are inappropriate to your point and taboo to certain first nations. Shapeshifter is part of psychometabolism, but it is a much more precise technique. Autotransmutation sounds terrible but closer to the meaning. Maybe we continue with the...

Thri-Kreen are core to Dark Sun. They are the inheritor species of the Burnt World of Athas. They need to be a PC lineage. Arcane should have no access to healing. The problems for Preservers are two-fold, they are lumped in with Defilers because they are both casters and they are weaker than...

Dark Sun is about scrabbling the last bits of hope together in a wrecked world. It is difficult to survive, but that survival has to mean something. The overthrow of Kalak is a huge victory for hope, but it opens a whole plethora of cans of worms. Having several groups or organizations in the...

I had a long post about Ernie's inability to learn from the past, other peoples, and his own, despite a lifetime involved in publishing and ttrpgs. His lack of business acumen and surprise at taxes and fees should give any creator pause to joining any business venture with him. I don't know him...

Wow. I mean Ernie doesn't have the greatest track record with business decisions, but this is a whole new level of bizarre. Is Gail Gygax going to take TSR3: The Quickening to court before WotC or after? Drawmij knows nothing of this new entity and he is one of their marquee names, plus the...

I am going to answer the original post, as fascinating as the tangents have been. D&D goes to level 20 for tradition and the synergy with the 20 sided die. The fact that we are only discussing if levels 16-20, instead of 10 to 20 is telling. The top 20% is not for everyone, but it is a nice...

I imagine it would include less tinker gnome and giant space hamster stuff. Play up the fantastical that can be had in zero-g environs as opposed to traditional settings. The Astral Plane has always been the most space-like of the planes, right down to the silver air tubes for astronauts, I...

Someday I will get to run my Thundarr the Barbarian campaign with lasers, robots, sorcery and mutants. It is surprisingly easy to drop different levels of tech into a game when you stop worrying about making different mechanics for different weapons and technologies. Artificer works just as well...

I think it will be more specific. It will be the dwarven NPC voice. Scottish or German? Drunk or sober? 10 different versions that all end up sounding like Willy the Janitor from the Simpsons.

Paid by the word... up to 1000. You are getting 999-1000. Or how large a 1K word submission is for a complex trap? How much real estate such a submission unedited would take up in a page, digital or otherwise.

I love Spelljammer. I love the guano-loco nature of Ptolemaic space, the bizarre gravity, and air rules. The fact that the Elven Navy is a spent empire trying to hold onto past glory. The setting holds a special place in my heart. In the end, I could lose all of it to have my ship combat and...