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This, all of it. The other day I was getting ready to offer a novel manuscript to an agent, and I needed a title. The working title I'd been using wasn't good enough; I had an idea for a real title, but I wasn't totally happy with that either. "Hold on," thinks I. "I've got a synopsis of the...

Necromancers absolutely need a summon with a "horde" statblock. It doesn't feel like a necromancer unless you have a swarm of disposable minions, but nothing says we have to track them individually. The other thing is that there needs to be a way for the necromancer to use the bodies of fallen...

You know, looking at the Order of the Stick prequels, it occurs to me that there's a decent model there for the sorcerer/wizard divide: Planning doesn't matter. Strategy doesn't matter. Only two things matter: Force in as great a concentration as you can manage, and style. And in a pinch, style...

As a matter of game design, you're not wrong. And the same logic could be applied to other classes. Ranger comes to mind. But the D&D class list is a matter of tradition, not game design. You can inveigh against that, but it ain't going to change. Sorcerer has been around since 3E, it's going...

I will certainly see it -- mainly to give JMS a boost with the reboot. I do feel like the great strength of B5 was its long-form storytelling, though. The movies couldn't capture what made it great.

I think bonus spells tied to subclass should be the norm for any caster. It adds so much distinctiveness and variation. When everyone pulls from the same list, everyone ends up converging on the best picks for their style of play. Of course, it would help if the spells were at least kinda...

If you get hit for 70 points of damage, which is hardly unheard-of at that level, you're facing a DC 35 concentration save. If you raised your Con to 20, and got proficiency in Con saves, and advantage, and +5 from magic items or something... you still need a 19 to make it. 80% of the time, you...

If I were redesigning the sorcerer from scratch, I would base it on the 5E warlock design (the original one, not the new one which is a hot mess IMO). You get a set of innate, at-will abilities -- beefed-up cantrips, basically -- plus a couple of high-end spell slots, and an ability that lets...

You certainly have a point... but now wizards and sorcerers have the same spell list, the same number of spells, both having "spell modification" as their signature feature. Why do we even have two separate classes? I feel like 1D&D is trying to make each class better, but they have a very...

Fixing Modify Spell is easy. Get rid of it. Spell modification is the sorcerer's signature ability.

The school system is a wizard's approach to magic. It's analytical, mechanistic, scholarly; no other class should care about it at all. They would have their own ways of organizing spells, which might or might not be reflected in the rules, but certainly should not be subordinated to the wizard...

He digitized images in somewhat crappy resolution and poor lighting and put them out. It's not as clear-cut a violation as if they were 600-DPI scans in perfect color, but it's a lot more than just a "review."

I am not a lawyer and fair use is a weird and wily beastie... but if you're showing a big part of an entire set, and Wizards didn't send it to you as part of a "spoiler" campaign, I'm fairly sure that is a copyright violation, yes. Whether WotC pursues it is up to them. They mostly don't, for a...

I had a number of issues with the 5E implementation of the warlock. So, let's see... 1. "Invocation taxes." You don't get many invocations, and Agonizing Blast/Thirsting Blade are practically mandatory to be effective in combat. If you don't take one of these, your regular damage output plunges...

If by "mage classes" you mean "wizards and sorcerers," I agree. Warlock got some QOL improvements at the cost of losing their most distinctive feature and getting nerfed all to hell.

The headline, as is so often the case, is not backed up by the article. "The documents say Pinkerton operatives were inserted into an Amazon warehouse in Wroclaw, Poland, to investigate an allegation that warehouse workers were circumventing sort of the application process for applying to...

According to their statement, they did. He didn't respond.

Quite possibly. But it is not illegal to send somebody to their house to talk to them about it.

The company that uncovered and thwarted an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln before his inauguration? That spied for the Union during the Civil War? That hired the first female private detective? That's "a gross move?" Either their history is relevant, or it's not. I have a lot of...

So... someone at WotC, with no expertise in this kind of thing (but "M:tG street cred," whatever that means), is going to have to identify the person, find out where they live, get on a plane, fly there, and hope the person is reasonable and doesn't get violent? And apparently they did make...