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Yep, and it's probably the best they can do.

I've worked in publishing off and on for 25+ years, as a designer, people manager, and art director. So, hopefully, what I say here can clear some stuff up for most (but knowing this place nothing will ever satisfy a few). If my experience holds true, this is almost entirely about reducing...

It goes to eleventy eleven.

There are a lot of people here that are making up all sorts of stuff to nerf something that's incredibly useful in some situations and worthless in others. For scouting a cave system? A spider is great, and they will be able to see and do a lot and will either be not seen at all - due to...

Xanather's has suggestions for using cooking implements with a variety of skills to make them more relevant in the game. Also, in my game, if the characters invest in the right skills and tools, and build up a bit of RP around it, I just hand-wave away food costs, and the bookkeeping with it...

You mean at first? Or what about later, when you either find or purchase more scrolls? For a Rogue, I'd love to potentially access to Alarm, Comprehend Languages, Drawmij's Instant Summons, Identify, Illusory Script, Leomund's Tiny Hut, Magic Mouth, Phantom Steed, Tenser's Floating Disc, Unseen...

Where, in reality, or in a magical dragon elf game? You don't have to.

You're kinda mixing metaphors here, 'genetic' is scientific. :heh: But, things like 'hunchbacks' have existed in fantasy forever. It's generally considered being cursed from birth, by the gods, so I'd say it's only a 9th level spell or divine intervention that would work.

Your first act on this board is to necro a 4-years dead thread? You thrill-seeker, you.

The Forge had a great term a while ago, how 'D&D launched a thousand game designers who want to make D&D, but to fix this ONE THING with D&D', called a Fantasy Heartbreaker. It's just what people do. Everyone thinks design is easy, their ideas are fantastic, and everyone can do it. And they want...

Wow, what a coincidence! I'm a lifelong Democrat and I absolutely hate everything about Obama, Hillary, and the current Democratic Party, and I think Fox News gets a lot of things right, and that Trump has been getting unfairly criticized and respect what he's doing for our country! I'm Black...

Oh, those weren't attacks against you, something was lost in translation on the web. I wasn't questioning your age as a way to question your authority, I was saying that I'd bet you're probably older or playing with an older crowd if you don't see it much. On other boards that trend young (like...

In our group, we basically say this: We enforce 6-8 encounters per Long Rest, and 2 Short Rests in between. It's not possible to get all of those in during a single gaming session (or even game day) the way we play, so we carry the number of encounters over from session to session until...

Like immorality. How old are you? it was common when was young, uncommon now that our table is early 30's average. I think that goes right along with the maturity level of the people at those stages of their lives, emotional development, and maturity. Been there, done that, and it's never...

I'm advocating against it. The game is still too complicated and fidgety. My newer players are barely holding on. Well, the issue isn't the spending of the money, the issue is that all that logistics becomes un-fun. Many (and I'd bet most) people play games to get away from their boring...

Dissenting opinion. Nah, powergamers distort the game for everyone else in a negative way to a tremendous degree. They're also a distinct minority of the current audience. They're like the violent sociopath living in a warm, open, giving community that forces everyone else to lock their doors...

Beholder 28 Displacer Beast 9 Gelatinous Cube 20 Mimic 11 Mind Flayer/Illithid 20 Owlbear 10 Purple Worm 14 Rust Monster 8 :heh:

I remember 3rd edition too. All those +2s everywhere. Yeah, that's what happens with the variable rule. But our table didn't want the game to become 'keep a spare backpack with the same stuff back at camp to replace the ones you dropped when you fled the TPK' which has the knock-on effect of...

Well, like it or not, language evolves. The term 'The Orient' and it's derivatives like 'oriental' have fallen out of favor to a significant number of people inside and outside of the culture. Regardless whether or not you personally respect the arguments against the term, at best it's tacky and...

Well, isn't some of it just trying to keep things relatively simple? No need to inflict Moon Druid Wild Shape on the uninitiated. That one ability alone has more bookkeeping of the entire Champion class!