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I'm currently planning a Bladesinger, and currently playing an Abjurer. I fully expect my Abjurer will turn out to have been by far the more powerful of the two. Improved Abjuration and the abjurer's Ward ability are incredible features, which I expect to completely outshine my new...

An evoker can cast the game's best damaging spells and deal extra damage without fear of harming allies. An abjurer can basically shut enemy spellcasters down completely with Counterspell - their bonus to their check will just overwhelm their enemy's. A conjurer can keep their summoned creatures...

My suggestion wasn't to start banning old story origins - just to make sure that story origins have, on the whole, fairly comparable amounts of stuff available to them. As the content diversifies, older content could even be brought back for later story origins if it fits well. If Season 4 is...

People are mixing up gender identity and gender expression. Gender identity is easy. When people ask you what your gender is, what feels right to say? Male? Female? Neither? Both? Different at different times? That's gender identity. Gender expression is performance of gender - and sexual...

I'm not sure how that's the case.

Indeed. My point was how much the quote said about general attitudes and why we have to keep having this argument. Namely, we'll keep having this argument until people realize that "just a fighter" isn't a thing.

My presentation of this quote is its own comment, because it by itself says everything.

You can't. Most of the problems with the actual rules don't happen at the AL level; they happen at the WotC level. In other words... the job you have is terrible. You get to spend a pile of time listening to people complain about things that they feel like you should be able to fix (and, for...

So... just caught up on the thread. It is in fact possible, if no characters (including NPCs) have any relationships at all outside "We are friends who hunt orcs, those are orcs who need hunting, that is the store where we buy things after we hunt orcs," to have a game where sexuality is...

Except for the majority of states, where your boss can fire you, your landlord evict you, your bank turn you down for a loan and close your account, if you actually exercise that right to marry. And it is legal.

IF anyone wants to know why I say that AL administrators tend toward dismissiveness in their posts? This. This post right here. This is why I say that. Except that RPers are not, in fact, winning, because they are cut off arbitrarily from the fun spells and races. They are, in fact, losing. Not...

The problem with the story origin mechanic isn't in its goal. Its goal makes a ton of sense. It's in its execution so far, because its execution so far does nothing really to achieve its goal - it simply creates a situation which is more favorable to people holding significant system mastery (in...

The mechanics are tools for realizing the stories. One of my favorite things about D&D in general and 5e un particular is how fluidly story feeds mechanic feeds story.

You're kinda strawmanning me a bit, but I get the frustration. I'm very aware that AL staff works hard and is basically uncompensated. I'm not actually a fan of that - I think it would be both more just and more effective if AL were run by paid staff, because from a business perspective what...

One lantern if by seasonal origin, two if by evergreen coreness?

Dismissiveness toward player concerns is central to my current cynicism about AL. It would do wonders for my overall sense of optimism about the direction organized play is going if attitudes from admins more closely resembled Mr. Paul Revere Guy (sorry, on Tapatalk and I would have to discard...

Let's share memories of the game elements in the new book. :)

An iconic character of mine I've been trying to get the story of told since the early days of 3e is a girl named Kaywin Myrdrivar. She is subject to much misfortune, most of it involving campaigns getting cut off two sessions in so her story never really gets started, much less finished. But...

I... wow. Okay, I am feeling exceptionally cynical about AL lately. I am sorry. I very much hope that the announcement of AL's rule on SCAG reduces that. But as long as you're expecting people to spend hundreds of dollars to go to conventions to get certs and access to some adventures, you're...

Yes. But the thing is? I can't imagine having RPed for any length of time and not played all these basic spectra of sexual and romantic behavior, or at least having people at the same table as me do so. Chaste courtly love one campaign, lover in every port the next. We just hunt goblins for...