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How do you feel about the deputy?

I agree this is one of the major sticking points historically with the Warlord. I just don't think it needs to be. I don't think most people viewed Healing Others as a major theme of the Warlord, and now that we have temporary hit points as a pretty common mechanic in the game, I think switching...

Greg Bilsland just returned to WOTC as Executive Producer of Dungeons & Dragons. He used to run a Dark Sun campaign. James Wyatt just got a promotion too in the D&D team. He's the one who talked at length in an old WOTC article about greenliting Darksun for 4e.

I loved those books when young. Recently I tried to pick up where I thought I'd left off and felt quite lost. Which series would you say are pretty good, aside from the original trilogy and the original Camber of Culdi trilogy?

How distant can they be when they're split into the exact same categories as giants, with lesser powers based directly on each giant type and not varying from it? They're literally called the giant names, like Cloud.

For specifically 5.24e, it doesn't really say that. As noted above by another user, WOTC didn't really give much to go on to establish their own culture for 5.24e. What's a Fire Goliath culture like? No idea really. Now you can say in prior editions they had more culture, but in prior...

I have to admit, Goliaths put the lie to the idea WOTC can't or won't do half-races. Goliaths are half-giants. They can dance around that claim however they want, but it says directly they're "distant descendants of giants" that have "physical characteristics that are reminiscent of the giants...

I can say in optimization communities, specifically those who create builds on YouTube and through Patreon for a living, I find some version of Goliath is very popular in these builds. Probably because they include an increase to damage fairly often, and damage per round or combat is often...

It's hard to remember. I started with D&D for sure, I think in 1978. I don't know if Star Frontiers, Gamma World, or Marvel Superheroes was my next game to try. I'm guessing it was about a year before I tried one though.

I'll have to get them out and take a picture. Maybe I am mis-remembering?

Back during 4e I bought a lot of painted plastic minis. Usually at least four to six of the same thing, given how 4e liked to match number of monsters to number of party members. And they were not nearly this bad. Most were pretty decent. Now that we play exclusively online I should probably...

Which part, that only a fraction of current players care about FR lore, or that those who are angry about FR lord are far more likely to respond to any survey than happy people? I think for these surveys the later is probably false. So many different types of people respond to surveys that I...

It is for me!

We use Discord as primary, Zoom as secondary. For video we prefer Zoom, but if it's primary audio we find Discord is easiest.

It's...fine? Not enough for me to feel the need to go buy this at the FLGS

Have people found the Study and Search actions to come up enough to justify that change?

When my Cleric got a 19 strength unexpectedly it was funny, and sometimes useful, but usually just an RP thing. He wasn't built to use strength so it just didn't come up very often. He could grapple like the dickens though!

I am finding the new game is very sensitive to adventuring day length. If you're having one combat per day, a lot of items seem overpowered. For example, if you have armor that can cast the Shield spell with d6 charges times a day, that's overpowered for a single combat each day because it's...

In actual use I've repeatedly heard Counterspell remains a good spell. Very little changed about cantrips?

Right but that would be a houserule. Nothing wrong with a houserule but I think there is a way for WOTC to fix it with a new spell which doesn't mess with their prior design integrity.