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Maybe if Fantastic 4 does huge box office and wins acclaim for its retro style.

I get it; the whole issue is fraught, as this thread attests. Best to stay out of it and individual DMs can do what they like, as always. The only reason those two mixed species were ever singled out for special attention was because Tolkien, anyway.

Don’t count on it. The change was made for reasons that go beyond the game, which is why newer systems are avoiding the issue altogether. And the proportion of D&D players who have strong feelings on the subject will be dwindling over the next decade, not growing.

I agree that this is the most elegant solution. In the fiction, though, it makes sense because the marilith has all those arms, much like a hydra's heads. Your players won't be expecting it from a minotaur who, from what I gather, isn't even a BBEG, so I'm more interested in how you explain it...

Character is not Weir’s strength as a writer, but they’ve got an excellent character actor, so this gives me hope the film will be better than the book. Which was kinda fun, but not nearly as good as The Martian.

Fincher has some fantastic films and also some that I think are good but don't do a lot for me. Fight Club is by far my favourite. I think Alien3 is a terrible sequel in that it retroactively makes the previous films worse, but that is the fault of the story, not the director.

I always like but seldom love Wes Anderson films. I find them affected in a way that aways keeps me at arms length - he's a very post-modern filmmaker in that he always wants you to be aware of the art. So I am rarely emotionally invested in the story, even while admiring the artistry. Rushmore...

I love Arkham Horror, but those games are at the extreme end of cooperative games, for sure. Each one is a full evening's commitment, and you're right, the set-up is extensive. Horrified will take maybe 10-20 minutes to read through the rules and set up the first time you play, but after that...

Very different games. Frankly, I think those D&D boardgames (I bought them all for the cheap miniatures) are basically mediocre Hero Quest knock-offs, with very little strategy or variation between games. Horrified is much more of a strategic cooperative boardgame in the vein of Pandemic...

Again, not a lawyer, but the part of the ruling that caught my attention wasn't about ownership, it was that "Judge William Alsup compared the Anthropic model’s use of books to a “reader aspiring to be a writer” who uses works “not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them” but to “turn a...

I would love to get @Snarf Zagyg ‘s take on what this ruling and the judge’s comments mean, as well as the potential significance. It seems to me that there are some distinct issues at play. I am very loathe to offer an opinion but fascinated by the topic.

They’ve always been listed as “partnered content,” at least since that category was added. That can mean different things. Tal’Dorei Revisited is 3PP. Explorers Guide and Netherdeep are partnered content but not 3PP. The three classes cited above were all published by WotC for D&D specifically...

Are you a lawyer? I am not, but what you are describing seems very different from what the article is describing, in which the judge seems to be making an important ruling re. the transformative aspects of LLMs, which it seems to me (not a lawyer) could have far-reaching ramifications in US law...

Can you clarify what you mean by “unlikely to return”? All of those subclasses are currently in the game. I had an echo knight in a campaign that just concluded, and Explorers Guide to Wildemount, for example, is currently available on DDB; indeed, it was fairly recently updated to integrate...

I love the idea of rebooting the franchise as a period film (which makes even more sense given how the last Bond ended). The Bond aesthetic works best in that context, IMO.

My notes are less about mechanics and more about locations and NPCs. For the way I run games, I need to understand the motivations of the characters so I can have them respond sensibly to character choices. It also means that even if players abandon or ignore a thread, it keeps on humming...

Monks are very good at grappling now - I think @ECMO3 has a good description of how his monk fights with it in a recent thread. I agree that its usefulness depends on encounter design - my campaigns involve a lot of humanoid opponents. If you are up against a lot of large, powerful monsters it...

Not like this (again, seen every episode; set my campaign on Exandria - my players visit those magic shops) - in episode 2 of AU they are getting items every few minutes, but all of the enhancements are very incremental - sometimes mundane items but still an improvement. It feels much like...

Yeah, fighters have incredible damage scaling in 5e 2024. And I think berserserker barbarians math out even higher (not for nova damage, though).

I have also created encounters where staying and fighting was simply not an option. For example, I had one where the party was trying to get an artifact from a bridge in the middle of a lava chamber while the BBEG was coming for it from the other side. But the chamber was the resting place of a...