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Excellent overview. Note that with the 2024 rules, monks can (and should) now choose to use dexterity rather than strength for their grapples. Which makes sense; monks should be good at grappling.

I do not remember that.

Maybe in theory, but that's not what's happening in the AP that this thread is about. It's like you're asking me not to believe my lying eyes. I mentioned Diablo earlier, with regards to setting, but another way that the AP reminds me of Diablo is in how many items are being collected by the...

D&D is still something of a mystery and a nerd thing amongst most of my generation (X). And it's like anything else - people are mostly all talk. It's easy to make conversation, but actually comitting to something, especially when you probably don;t really understand what it is? That's hard...

As stated, I’ve watched pretty much every episode of CR, many multiple times, and I’m not seeing lightning fast combat on AU. So I literally timed it, this being a (somewhat) quantifiable claim. Nope, player turns are about the same.

Particularly if it’s a group of inexperienced players, most of whom probably have video game encounters as their primary reference point, I will just straight up tell them when it’s an escape or die kind of situation. My premise is that if it would be very clear to their characters that this foe...

Same - I’ve never paid attention to official D&D dragon design - for me a dragon is a dragon, and either I like the particular sculpt or I don’t. Then I decide how I want to paint it. I also don’t pay attention to any of the lore about colour and alignment and so forth. Dragons are very rare in...

The only one I've looked at so far is tattooed warrior (monk). It is not well designed. The level 3 choices are pretty underwhelming (a cantrip for free and access to a minor ability for a focus point). The level 6 options are all a waste of focus points to let you do stuff that monks don't...

I would argue that the Craig films, while not featuring names as egregious as Pussy Galore, are still pretty sexist. Vesper Lynd is fridged in the first one to provide the basis for Bond’s entire emotional arc, and while a few women gradually gain more agency, particularly Nomi in the most...

I feel that the core concept of Bond transcends misogyny. But if it can't, maybe its time is done. It's 2025 - we've moved past the Hefner era of gender politics.

I like the joke, but I'm gonna use it to suggest that "Bond girl" is a concept that the franchise needs to finally grow past. Unless she is actually Bond. And a woman.

Who is the target audience? I normally just do session write-ups for the players, to help keep us all on top of the story. It's typically 1-2 pages including a few photos or images from the session.

And this is a group of us heading off on a California adventure when I was 21 or so (from top left: sister-in-law, spouse, me (in the stripes), still my best friend (crouching) and brother-in-law):

The same photo I use in my Google ID: me sitting on a dock in Copenhagen last summer (I'm 57 and very proud of the Reed Richards-style grey coming in at my temples; it has been making its way up from my beard for the past decade):

I'm a huge fan of Critical Role. I've seen just about every episode, many of them 2-3 times. My home campaign is set in an adapted version of Exandria. As I type this, I'm wearing CR socks from their Canadian online store (super comfy!). So don't take any criticisms as coming from a negative...

That final trailer gave me goosebumps. Full disclosure: Fantastic Four is what got me into superhero comics when I was very, very young, and you never forget your first (it's why I will always stan for D&D1e, as well). I have always loved its retro vibe, and this film feels like will celebrate...

Well, that makes more sense then; the article obviously made a mistake. Wizkids gargantuan, ancient dragons typically sell for much more than $79.99, so that figure is likely in error as well.