Search results

First Air Supply were great! Or more accurately their two songs written by Jim Steinmann were great. Second I find Gygax a more challenging case than Lovecraft. Mostly because as I said in the other thread one of the things D&D is is a work of moral philosophy. I believe more people have spent...

I wouldn't. One thing subclass spell lists give is more casting options. If Divine Soul Sorcerers don't get extra spells known then opening a bigger store doesn't do much when they've little money to spend.

Strife in your world = internet storms-in-teacups. (Which you seem eager to continue) Strife in my world = encouraging people to treat peope badly. Whether through normalising sexism and racism, or through completely messing up good, lawful good, and paladins (and encouraging people trying to...

Honestly? No. It's a game but not just a game. D&D is a fandom. Or several fandoms. As we see here. D&D is one of the foundational works of one of the most engaged with forms of art of the past half century; Computer RPGs and Adventure Games from Colossal Cave onwards are at the very least...

One more time than the outright liars try raising him on high and to scream that he wasn't and make fact free complaints or throw mud at those pointing out true things. Ideally the response to the statement "Gygax was sexist" would be "you only just noticed?" But it wasn't. It was "dragged up"...

I have seen historical work that tried to be fair and unbiased. I have never seen any that completely succeeded. The choice of whose stories you tell is inherently political and no one is without bias.

Nor by 1970s Western standards. Jefferson was a slave owner who knew slavery was wrong and wrote against it. Lovecraft was not so much a product of his time as stunningly racist even by the standards of the 1920s. And Gygax was getting called sexist in the 1970s, and still kept it up into the...

That's not a wizard, it's a Tome Warlock. Is Sallie-Mae an Eldritch Horror, a Fiend, or an Archfey?

The 2024 Ranger doesn't need any help with that. If, thanks to no limited use abilities, the 2024 rogue is the weakest class, the ranger is the least thematic or at least has thematics least representative of the class fantasy.

Swords Bard is an apology for Valour being bad just as Hexblade is Pact of the Blade. They weren't going to kick the PHB subclass out or include both. With luck new Valour will be basically Swords. For that matter no PHB subclass was dumped

That's 2024 rules. Under pre-Tasha's rules a sorcerer knew fewer spells than a wizard could prepare at one time. And a big criticism of 5e is the lack of things to spend money on. Wizards are weak at tier 1, strong in tier 2, and OP in tiers 3 and 4 Not actually true for 2014 Evokers who can...

We have only seen player side material. But an obvious change is that fighters and barbarians used to be supernumeraries out of combat and about as able to contribute as wizards, clerics, or sorcerers who (a) had a poor stat selection (Str/Con is not good) and (b) were standing in an anti-magoc...

D&D is of course the game where housecats used to have a good chance against L1 wizards

And when you say "from a flavour point of view" I read "because PF2e doesn't like creativity from players and wants to hard code a St Bernard to use the same rules as a chihuaha".

So tell me why do they want to risk their animals friends' lives that way? I mean I can think of one dog growing up I would have wanted to see face a dragon, but I really didn't like that one.

I'd absolutely say "2/short rest as a bonus action gain 35thp" was broken and needed nerfing at level 4. At level 2 it was ludicrous

If you do this there needs to be robust levelling up for the companion. Otherwise the game becomes an escort mission, trying to avoid turning the wolf into dragon appetisers or ogre food.

Meanwhile most of us don't miss the flavours of soil, grit, and pesticides. And if we want something a little spicier than modern D&D offers adding hot source is easy. It's harder to wash the vegetables after they are already on the plate. 95% of them do. But a lot of them do so in a more...

So ... it's basically a Tasha's Ranger with functional TWF thanks to weapon masteries. And makes for a good rogue type. Although being disappointed would be too much to say I'm certainly not appointed.

I'm with you. Rogues have the lowest highs in 5.24 but they, unlike 5e classic fighters and barbarians (out of combat) and monks (in combat) have pretty high lows. Their damage is good (you can always Sneak Attack thanks to Cunning Action), their resilience is good (can always fight at range...