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I agree! But again, I don’t think those specific things are really material to what Dr. Cox is saying here. He’s saying he wants WotC to have some sort of subscription service to use AI tools. I don’t think he really cares what the service would allow people to do with the tools, he just thinks...

Frankly I think the “this” is literally whatever WotC thinks they can get people to pay a monthly subscription for. If that means generating adventure concepts, or building encounters, or populating dungeon rooms/hexes, or distributing treasure, or drawing maps, or some combination of the above...

That’s a pretty hit and miss way to use it too, because LLMs very frequently give flat-out wrong answers to such queries.

Somebody just reaching the final act of Veilguard? 😜

I really like the old-school bell-curve scores, with the cap of 18. Especially if you roll for ability scores. Especially if species give different dice formulae to roll instead of just flat bonuses/penalties (assuming species have ability modifiers, that is).

It's about what score should give what modifier. The scale shown here is how it used to work before 3e (mostly... it varied a bit)

Again, I'm not too fussed what we refer to it as. My point is, @Jefe Bergenstein and I seem to agree that the rules are written loosely and inconsistently, and I don't think "it's not a problem because DMs are going to do what they want with it anyway" is a compelling argument. It is definitely...

🤷‍♀️ whatever wording you want to use for it “the rules aren’t broken because you can fix them” is a bad argument.

I didn’t say the rules are written tightly. I said it’s inaccurate to say that WotC doesn’t value tight writing. Yes, so like I said, there was no design architect and not enough development time. Indeed. Shame there wasn’t more development time. Oberoni fallacy.

lol that just isn’t accurate.

But what is capitalized in the index and why is the mystery. There’s almost a discernible logic to it, but there are a bunch of weird exceptions. Also even that isn’t entirely consistent. Especially in the equipment section.

I know this wasn’t your point, but it’s an interesting thought. It could be that they don’t die from malnourishment or dehydration, but still experience hunger and thirst if they don’t eat or drink, and have those sensations sated when they do. It would certainly fit with the idea of the Abyss...

Interesting, my group was planning to start a campaign using this book, once we finish up our current campaign (which I’d estimate has about 3-4 sessions left in it).

I suspect these oddities are a result of lacking a system architect and being crunched on development time. Lots of attempts to clean up such formatting but not enough coordination of that effort to make sure nothing slips through the cracks and not enough time to do a thorough sweep to catch...

Yeah, it could certainly be intended as a (non-binding) suggestion.

It’s interesting that Carrion Crawler’s multiattack breaks the general trend of alphabetical order for attacks and attacks, then abilities. But, I see no reason to assume it indicates that multiattack order is prescriptive. 2024 D&D has a lot of odd inconsistencies in these sorts of formatting...

Also long rests. And, level 10+ Rangers lose an Exhaustion level on a short rest. And as DM if you want to make Exhaustion easier to deal with you can always make potions of vitality easily accessible and/or make a more common potion that just removes one Exhaustion level instead of all of them.

Honestly, I think the removal of two-stage effect application in 2024 was a change for the worse. This is a situation where I think it would be perfectly appropriate for a hit to deal some damage and force a save, and failure on the save to cause a level of exhaustion.

Yeah, 2 levels on a vampire bite is a lot. I would stick to 1. But the death spiral effect does kind of imitate the feel of level drain in a way that the reduction of maximum hit points doesn’t.

I like this idea a lot. Though, it does mean 6 cumulative hits from such undead is guaranteed lethal.