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How can you so blithely dismiss the ancient order of Wu Tang

In addition to losing their ribbons, monks are also in danger of losing their flavor. I realize why the "Eastern mysticism" of the monk can be problematic, but replacing "ki points" with "discipline points" feels like a serious bland-ification. Maybe they could call it fury points? Energy...

Seriously? This infuriates me. You can't conjure something out of existence.

I think it should be called Paladin's Smite of the Paladin Which is a Paladin Ability of the Paladin Class. Or just Smite. One or the other of those.

Funny. I expected the monk to get a radical overhaul and rogue (which seemed fine as is) to change very little. Instead monk hasn't been changed that much and rogue gets a shocking new suite of abilities. Not that I'm complaining about rogue. Cunning Strike is the fix I didn't know I needed...

They're just comparing the number of options and the complexity, not implying this game is DOS3. Virtually everything they're announcing here is straight out of the 5e rules.

First impressions of the new druid: Thank God that they undid replacing wild shapes with generic bags of hit points. That was a deal-breaker. Going back to using monster stat blocks means that druid will remain the most complicated class, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing...

First: Paizo isn't coming to your house and deleting the drow from the books you already own. (At least we hope not. I'm sure the Pinkertons would take that job). But more importantly, Paizo is doing this because they feel they have no choice. Maybe that's true and maybe it isn't; I'm not a...

Why can't Paizo be more like Wizards of the Coast, which is even to this day constantly publishing new adventures for 1e, Basic, 2e, 3e, 3.5e, and 4e?

"What if I named the company Microsoft? That's probably available, right?"

A rare stumble from a modern Michaelangelo of graphic design.

Oo! What do I win?

I'm totally stealing that from you.

"What will you be playing in tomorrow's Shadowdark game?" "Murderhobo." "Yes, but what class?"

Here's my stab at monk with no multiattack.

I've been working on a Shadowdark monk, but it's tricky. One of the principles of SD is that no one ever gets more than one attack, but monks in D&D have always had multiple, weaker attacks. I could give monks two attacks for small damage. Or perhaps a second small damage trigger off a natural...

Maybe! But I was actually worried that healing without a check was too strong.

Giant Rats are challenge rating 1/8, which is the minimum. So you can't blame that on the adventure. It's not like they threw The Tarrasque at your players at first level -- it had easy, level-appropriate enemies and one of them got lucky. Crit happens.

Sunless Citadel is wonderful. Pretty much a perfect introduction to Dungeons and Dragons.