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Looking forward to that advice on how to bring 2014 things to 2024 rules specifically because of this species foolishness. 2014 design could've used some updates, but it seems better than this.

Yeah, we're kind of at the point where we're to the question of what kind of complexity are they talking about here? I think it's totally possible to have a class with few options, few builds, and few levers, and still be reasonably complex in terms of the mental load required to play one at...

I expect some of what's playing into different evaluations of Barb complexity is different players at different tables being comfortable with different levels of complexity. Like, if you don't mind complexity, you won't think the Barb is too bad. And ENWorld in general is a place that does not...

I agree with Barb as Medium complexity, due mostly to how fiddly the modifiers for Rage can be. Remembering exactly what your passive buff does on and off your turn is a pretty big mental load. Also, knowing how to optimize things like Reckless Attack plays into the complexity. A Fighter's...

I'm curious on the measurement. Complexity to me is sort of a way to get at "number of decision points," but that's different in character creation vs. on a battlefield. You can have a class that's straightforward to build, but that gives you a LOT of options in a fight (not many decision...

Whenever we started letting influential failures continue to be influential despite their failures because we didn't have the societal intelligence to course-correct and had this assumption that people in positions of leadership must be there because of some intrinsic value of their ability and...

When you think about it, Chris Cocks was just a product of his time. In that era, every CEO was basically an idiot who refused to listen to the experienced experts around them. We can't judge him based on the standards of our time. He was just doing what everyone else was doing.

I think we do. Riggs's thread here is predicated on the fact that people reacted to the inclusion of a content warning as if it was some horrible slander. It's also very easy to see sexism in regular practice in so many areas in modern life. Too many people don't know that these are bad...

I have a hypothesis. The unstated logic of some of these reactions is something like "I like this. If they're right - if this has sexism in it, and I like it, what's that say about me?" Growing up, most of us just played this fun game because our friends did or because we liked Lord of the...

This is an oversimplification. When we say someone was a "product of their time," it's comparable to saying "he didn't know any better" or appealing to their ignorance. And if someone's ignorant, well, that's not their fault, right? Yeah, maybe it sucked, but can't blame the medieval princeling...

I appreciate a game without front-loaded chargen options. I want to play D&D. It takes a lot of time to make characters already. Spacing out that growth is smart. And in a class-based game, the archetypes do the job of different "builds" on the class. Not that there aren't alternatives...

D&D has never had satisfying companion rules, so this doesn't sound like a good idea. And by "companion rules," I would extend this to npc companions a la 3e's Leadership, summoning spells (including fiend-summoning), paladin horses, mounts in general, wild shape, and basically any feature or...

Looking back on history means looking back on its mistakes. Being honest with ourselves about our past. "Virtue signalling," you claim, but the question of Riggs's motive is irrelevant. Who knows or cares what his "true intent" was? Feels like a dodge. "If I can discredit the messenger, I don't...

Gary doesn't get a pass for being of his time. Riggs points out that even "for the time", Gary was sexist. Second wave feminism was 15 years old (ish) in 1975. The Feminine Mystique was more than 10 years old - likely available at the Lake Geneva library. Women had been appointed to places of...

To support this point, I feel like this also needs to be called out... You're on the internet in 2024, Riggs. You're posting on a website owned by one of the richest right-wing enablers in the world, in a country where incels engage in mass shootings and bigoted rancor spills from the drooling...

I do wish we could move away from "sexist" as a character trait and toward sexism as an action. I feel like so many people's reaction upon hearing the accusation of bias like this is saying "The accusation of sexism is baseless because I saw this person be nice to a woman once!" or "It was no...

Pretty sure WotC never said there won't ever be another edition change. Just that one of the main people working on the game thought it'd be a good idea to have more stable editions than there had been in the past, in a 2012 interview. Which is something they're continuing with. This "5.2"...

The LevelUp's spell-less ranger does a lot of "not-spells"-ing. Heck, it basically reprints Hunter's Mark.

This isn't how demand actually works. Say WotC makes 50% profit on a book sale. Say they make closer to 80% profit on a sale of a month of DDB subscription. Now, every time someone buys a book instead of buying a DDB subscription, WotC makes less money off of them. This could even be true if...

I liked how Flee Mortals! addressed this. Legendary Resistance works like legendary resistance - monster chooses to make the save. However, the monster suffers some debuff for a small time after it does. It might move slowly, not be able to use certain legendary actions, gain vulnerability to...