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A good argument for deleting halflings from your games. I am not Tolkien. I am not interested in telling Tolkien's stories. I have different a different background, motivation, and interests compared to Tolkien. I can appreciate his work, but I'm not interested in trying to reproduce his...

If you consider pizza to be toast, then yes. Otherwise no, it is now a two-layer cake. Note that this is specifically only the case if you are just stacking them: if you are making a calzone, that is a separate thing. Soups are salads, so cereal is a salad. Soups are instead a quiche if...

Pizza is either toast or a cake, not a sandwich. And yes, the implication is that an "open-face sandwich" is not, in fact, a sandwich. Edit: a deep-dish pizza probably qualifies as a quiche.

A barbarian can't be an animal person? A druid can't have anger management issues?

Discouraging multiclassing is a feature, not a bug.

Wizards don't need spells, we have the Arcana skill.

There are two problems with this question, from my perspective. First: I've nixed fighter and rogue, so ranger overlapping with their feature sets isn't a problem for me. Second: I haven't gotten around to writing my take on the ranger yet, and I haven't put too much thought into it yet, so I...

Rangers shouldn't be casters, at least not by default.

Pairing this (with X = 10) with "you can cast any spell with a casting time of 1 action you know that heals hit points as a bonus action" at 5th level has worked out astoundingly well with my group.

...why would I not? It's a known thing with marksmanship that hitting someone in the head is considerably more difficult than center-of-mass. I'm aware that we don't model that kind of targeting in D&D, and for good reason, but going from a specific example to a general one felt like something...

It's almost like there's a difference between military contexts -- where you generally have a lot of combatants on either side -- and an adventuring context, in which the 21 foot rule would matter. Your explicit example was blowing someone's head off with a gun. That's considerably different...

You've apparently not heard of the 21 foot rule. Sure, that's possible. But this statement makes me think you haven't spent any time at a range. And while a crossbow wouldn't be as graphically deadly, it could achieve the same end. Guns were adopted because they are the least-demanding...

HP is kind of ridiculous whether guns are involved or not. I can see why people might assume that guns are more dangerous than swords. I also think those people both overestimate the deadliness of guns -- there are plenty of real-world stories of people getting shot in ways that aren't...

Ah, the wonderful smell of vindication. "Appendix N" is a reference to one of the appendices found in the 1e DMG. It's basically just a reading list from Gygax of authors and books he enjoyed and informed the shape of early D&D.

Is there something special about the 17th or 18th centuries that makes them a non-viable setting for a fantasy story? I get that the majority of the fantasy genre has a vaguely-medieval feel to it. I would also argue that that isn't a requirement.

Pirates of the Caribbean is a fantasy movie (among other genres).

I'm going to assume you're considerably older than me, then. This isn't about any kind of objective qualities of the contents of appendix N. As I said, I haven't and never will read Conan, but that's more of a personal thing at this point -- given the fact that we are even still talking about...

Thor's nuts, I am sick and tired of "appendix N" being an argument for anything. I am nearly 40 years old. Of the authors listed in appendix N, I recognize six names, and of those six authors, I have only actually read anything written by two of them (Lovecraft and Tolkien). Howard, Moorcock...

Firearms dealing absurd damage compared to swords and bows has always confused me. Why is getting shot with a bullet potentially more lethal than being stabbed with a sword or getting an axe hewn into your stomach?

I mean... it's an alignment thread. Not agreeing with someone else is like, 95% of the content of these things.