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I remember reading the first book in The Black Company on a scifi fantasy kick my senior year of high school and enjoying the book for what it was but not picking up the series. My favorite fantasy series from that era was The Culai Heritage three-parter (Magician's Law, Demon's Law, Death's...

We were discussing what Azzy raised that he thought they meant an in-game calendar app. I think they meant a calendar app as most of us understand it though.

Unless that D&D movie comes out and its a biopic about Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, and the history of the game developing until TSR was acquired by WotC that is.

For sure—one that I guess oozes out from under your skin or something. Any saddle would need to be made special to be immune to being dissolved by acid.

I guess the crux of the question is how much of the differences between species needs to be tied up in their ability scores? I read Haldrik as saying fantasy racial essentialism is a default assumption of D&D.

I think we're making an argument for WotC doing more frequent repeat surveys of the player base. Since immediate pre-COVID data or survey data from the summer could help address these questions in terms of short-term vs. long-term trends. More support for more frequent surveys to iron out...

That's fair. If that's true I imagine there would still be increasingly more examples of people playing online than otherwise for a period of time. Valuable to know, but indicative of this particular moment in time is all.

I meant putting a literal saddle on a black pudding and trying to ride the ooze like a horse.

Hey I appreciate you taking the time to elaborate in the midst of a very long quote-and-response! I was trying to build off the example of people overlooking employees doing work, and I would see the roll of Intimidation as their presence in that moment regarding how authoritative they are in...

That was weird I'll admit so I chose to answer yes on calendar apps. I also prefer in person to online to the point where I haven't played since COVID started so I'm curious how significantly COVID play will skew the answers in regards to use of digital tools or virtual gaming.

IMO the issue with dwarves and halflings vs. orcs and drow is that the former are subject to more positive racial stereotyping as opposed to negative stereotyping and we are generally more willing to overlook that (model minorities vs. cultural boogeymen). I think there's nothing necessarily...

As people are discussing applying a range of potential ASI options to different backgrounds rather than races or culture seem like an idea worth thinking through. Not that this comment is claiming the product is racist per se, but that it shuffles the cards in a way to address the fundamental...

I would disagree. Many people join the military as a job and not purely due to patriotism or competition. Any conversation with a superior always has the implicit threat of their authority over you whether intended or not but I understand this is a broader reading of Intimidation than you might...

Duh, for some reason it hadn't resolved properly when I tried the website before. Ignore me!

Hell, I'm surprised there aren't more prominent options to treat an ooze as a mount given the tone of Acquisitions Incorporated, which I think would be an awesome option. The DND Beyond video makes some solid points.

Ah yes, domain squatters would explain it.

Given WotC has DungeonsandDragons.com redirect to the homepage but not DND.com I'm wondering what the hesitation on getting domain name redirects is. Maybe they're more expensive than I would expect.

Drill sergeants regularly seem to do okay and soldiers seem to be pretty loyal while respecting them. R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket seems to be an example of doing this the wrong way like you said. Every time a boss calls you into a meeting for a performance review without presenting the...

The lack of mention of DMs Guild was strange when they collected information on D&D Beyond. For sure, that would make a lot of sense.