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Artifact Shopping List. Write a thing on the list. If you are within ten feet of the thing, it glows. If you touch the thing, then stop touching it, the entry is crossed out and disappears. But it's an artifact. "The person who killed Bob." "An item significant to our quest." Sure, no...

http://reason.com/archives/2018/04/07/the-radical-freedom-of-dungeon

Seems like a really efficient way to get a lot of utility for a little loss of combat effectiveness.

No. Greatsword gets +1d6, greataxe gets +1d12. This is an intentional design decision.

This directly contradicts what you have said about assuming everyone is a mature adult and you don't have a reason to change things to deal with their possibly-temporary mental health issues. You're now acknowledging that sometimes you would in fact change a thing based on another player's needs...

"I just assume everyone will be emotionally healthy" is a pretty unusual thing, usually. Most people I know assume that at least some people are not emotionally healthy, and will need accommodations, and will be willing to make those accommodations. You've described a standard which specifically...

I would think that "everyone is emotionally healthy" is a thing you should state explicitly in your table contract, or just not do. I know a lot more people who have at least one mental health problem than I do people with none at all. It's like physical health, really. Do I actually know anyone...

That seems a good starting point. I had a friend who was in a game where the GM thought that "ahh, yes, the big bad threatens to rape a PC and everyone laughs" would be good character development, and it went poorly. And I feel like you could reasonably infer that this would be a high enough...

... It does? Is this a general rule about "automatically"? Does it generally carry that implication, or only when you're arguing about disintegrate and druids? Like, a lot of computers used to have mechanical drive trays for CD-ROMs. These would open automatically under some circumstances. But...

I don't see how your speculation on what a hypothetical programmer would do is related to the way the rule works. According to the very people who stated that the intent was not to kill druids, the rules as written say the druid gets dusted. We know the druid was reduced to 0hp, because if they...

I'd consider this a rulings-not-rules thing. The rules as written have an ambiguity which is not consistently resolved.

It's worth pointing out: the first amendment only affects laws passed by the government, but the concept of free speech is much broader, and there are reasons to consider allowing unpopular speech in communities. I dunno. I'm basically with Mearls on this, I've been watching this be a problem...

Okay, so the answer is "no one is pretending to be one" and we're done, congratulations, every gatekeeping we ever needed in the history of D&D is done, now we can stop.

I used to think that. So, there's a thing that happens where someone who's unambiguously a domain expert gets lectured on newbie-level stuff. And this has happened to lots of my friends. But you know what? It's happened to people who were believed to be male maybe once or twice, and to people...

So, in that case: Part of the issue is that since we don't hear about the others, this looks like a bigger deal. But we also have the usual thing where hiring a person with boobs for anything related to video games or tabletop games invokes a long-running feud. Thus, 9+ page thread about a thing...

Past entry-level jobs, "qualifications" are nearly always optional. Source: I'm a professional programmer on the high end of "senior" and I've never taken a CS class.

Please identify some of these "other hires". So far as I can tell, this is the first actual designer-level hire for D&D since 5e came out, unless I forgot someone?

Except that's not true at all. You're assuming that hiring one designer who is a "heavy roleplayer", to work with several other designers, is "excluding" people who aren't heavy roleplayers. That's nonsense! The number-crunchy side of things is not lacking for support. Adding a heavy roleplayer...

i would generally not grant abilities that were substantially spell-like from a new form.

Ahh, I misread it, I thought they were going on from a previous adventure, where they got a sun blade, and those characters were continuing into CoS, where they'd find another and then have two and it would be awkward, like showing up at a party wearing the same dress as someone else.