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Naw, they're mostly rituals, which Wizards will have in abundance without the need to prepare them. It's sort of catching a cleric up to where wizards are already at with some ritual utility spells. Which makes sense for a class like this.

It's WOTC's native country and if they want to put up a casino on their tribal lands which used to be hunting grounds, that's not colonial it's their right. To put it another way, I find your misuse of the concept of "colonial" at best distasteful and out of place in a conversation like this...

A Scion of the Three/Bladesinger multiclass has a lot of synergy. Human, Alert and Magic Initiate: Wizard for True Strike Scion Lev 3: You want to target a bloodied creature, so Dex not as important but still secondary for AC. Teleports linked to Int Spellcasting tied to Int True Strike for...

I think you'd compare to the comparable time period because that's a simple reference that people can understand, particularly if they were not already aware (like you and I) that later years had much stronger sales. Comparing start to start for an edition is easier to explain, and marketing is...

Mike, it's been 4.5 months. Not a year. If your premise is it's not selling well, then the data to support that premise shouldn't be that it didn't beat the best year in 1/3rd that time, right? I mean, I don't think they even printed enough copies to be able to do that. Again, beating it at...

Elsewhere people were doubting that the audience had shifted to 50% women. So I checked and sure enough, "According to Wizards' internal studies of the player population, 60% of D&D players are male, 39% are female, and 1% identify otherwise." That's from 2023.

I love Rex Stout. Never read that one though, or his biography. How were they?

I don't think D&D and real world physicist monitoring accuracy of the laws of physics is really a meaningful aspect of playing D&D for fun. I think "I push on a pole to trigger a trap" is well within the realm of verisimilitude for the level of D&D at most tables. Also, rules-wise, you can...

My man, I once went to Vegas in my early 30s, when the latest (4th book? 5th?) Harry Potter book had just come out, and no joke I literally counted EIGHTEEN adults around that pool all reading the same book. The idea that Harry Potter was just a youth thing is absurd. The books were read by all...

I'm just going off my most common DM's reaction. Tapping doesn't trigger a pit, but if we suspect a pit or similar pressure plate requiring more than a light amount of weight on it, saying we place the end of a 10' pole against the area and push usually does it. We've probably done this maybe 5...

It can if you put weight on it. The mage hand cannot.

To perceive something you use both vision and hearing. If you have disadvantage to see things, it's just disadvantage to your check. The rules don't really split the perception to hearing and vision when making a passive check to detect something as it uses both. As pointed out above there is a...

Man I asked you point blank twice. I don't know how much clearer I could have made it. It had a question mark on the end of each sentence and everything. Finally. So it was not just curiosity but to start a discussion. WHICH IS WHAT I WAS ASKING ALL ALONG (that's what "challenge their...

I didn't refuse to believe it. I asked you and you didn't answer. Twice. I don't want a fight. You're the one who, when he got an answer (from cranberry), challenged that answer instead of just accepting the answer for what it was. Which prompted my question about if you were "just curious"...

Tunnels and Trolls had a decent solo play set of rules. They published solo adventures too. I've heard a third party has decent D&D solo rules called "DM Yourself"

I don't have concerns around half races as it relates to half-elves. So what makes them worth keeping is I like them, or at least I like the half-elf (I don't personally care about half-orc). That's the identical reason given in every other reply to this thread: people just like what they wish...

That's the rule though it's not spelled out in as simple terms as they should have. Darkvision in darkness says: "If you have Darkvision, you can see in...Darkness within that range as if it were Dim Light." Dim Light: "An area with Dim Light is Lightly Obscured." Lightly Obscure: "You have...

I said it in the last sentence you quoted. Is it really just curiosity, or was that mostly a means to get reasons you intend to try and refute?

Is it out of curiosity though? It's something he wants (I do too). You have not challenged anyone others desires for this thread except this one. And the moment someone answers, you challenge that too. So, is it really just curiosity, or was that mostly a means to get reasons you intent to try...

Tomb of Annihilation does this pretty well.