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The rule in 5.5 is that you can only cast one spell with a spell slot per turn, which as written has no impact on monsters that cast without using slots.

Maybe the real grognards were the friends we made along the way!

Except there's none of the consolidation that Mearls wanted. The content of the 2024 PHB is more or less the same as in the 2014 books, just new versions of it. In other words, what we got was nothing like Mike's vision.

To be fair, it's hard to find a forest in California to film in that isn't on fire.

But they also allow a whole bunch of other shenanigans, while Kiss of Mephistopheles only lets you do this one combo. I don't think it's a particularly strong invocation, the extra damage from hitting a target with Eldritch Blast will often be offset by less than ideal placement of the...

Ok, let me expand my statement so that there's no room for confusion: BG3's success suggests that the adults and children who don't like that stuff are in the minority.

BG3's success suggests that the adults who don't like that stuff are in the minority.

Maybe half-elves as a separate species will be back too? There are some prominent half-elves in FR lore.

Those well-educated immigrants probably have higher ambitions than writing for an elf-game.

Fixed that for you ;)

Which recent RPG products have had significant metaplots?

No one should be dumb enough to write a rule that requires a DEX save to end paralysis, yet here we are. ;) Proficiency in basic logic is not exactly common....

Most likely the designer had simply forgotten that being paralyzed makes you auto-fail DEX saves. I know I often forget precisely what the 5e conditions do, especially rare ones like Paralyzed. Perhaps we should expect more from someone writing rules for a living, but this is what we get. It's...

I can see advocates for Neutrality arguing that Extreme Good is a straitjacket, that the Good have no freedom of choice as they will always do the Right Thing, as long as they know what it is. This leaves them effectively with no free will, just puppets to their own alignment.

So Wizards are learning animals after all. Interesting...

You can just cast Mage Armor with a spell slot on travel days when you're not expecting to expend all your slots anyway, and only cast it from a scroll when you're entering a dungeon or other adventure location.

You can't copyright game mechanics, so if some megacorp wanted to make their own RPG based on D&D, Hasbro couldn't do anything about it, OGL or not. Unlike most RPG publishers Disney or Facebook has the resources to face Hasbro in court and win. I remember when the OGL was first announced it...

"Hey, we have this proposal here that will essentially destroy your business if it goes into effect, what do you think about it?" If this genuinely was a sincere request for feedback, then WotC's NuOGL process was even more incompetent than I thought. No amount of tweaking would have made the...

Russians, right?

Which minority groups identify themselves with orcs?