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The character taking the time to quest and gather the necessary components/artifact to learn the spell could be the in-game justification for a magic-user getting the new level in their class using milestone leveling rules. I can appreciate why the designers wouldn't want to have built-in...

I wonder if listing Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson on the designer list means there's a possibility of crediting them with creating the game on the cover of new D&D books?

I always liked Keith Baker's suggestion of non-dragonmarked subraces meaning whatever the player wants it to mean for that individual character without tying it into anything else in the larger world. Probably helps that things like hill dwarves and mountain dwarves weren't really ever a thing...

Clearly they all took the Mage Slayer feat! I like this a lot. Feels very fitting to have a character so grounded in mundane skill that they can shrug off efforts to change reality around them. A little bit of Terry Pratchett flavoring coming through maybe.

I agree with everything you said. As the character progresses in levels and picks up other magic items that would require attunement it seems like an easy fix to have the Armblade lose the attunement property altogether. I get the funny image of a warforged who unattunes from their Armblade...

Yup, I remember that was the exact sort of concept he was drawing on when he made the character within 5 minutes of opening the books. I'm not totally sure how many of those characters across pop culture are celebrated by people who are blind, are vision impaired, or have low vision so my...

I really think Sara Thompson makes a much stronger inclusion argument for the Combat Wheelchair in the document than the linked article ever does. Very strange the writer chose to not link to her finished product until midway through. As an option for players who are people with disabilities it...

You both raise really good points. I'll definitely work at being more mindful of these things going forward.

That seems like a good rule for resolving potential interpersonal conflict at the table. Having table disputes over rulings or specific behavior like potential metagaming settled by a simple voice vote among everyone playing the game after consulting the rules seems like it could address a lot...

I agree a knight giving up their horse isn't the most reasonable, but an example like when Obi-Wan Kenobi used Jedi Mind Trick to convince that Stormtrooper that R2D2 and C3PO weren't the droids they were looking for seemed more powerful than a single Persuasion roll.

Even Matt Mercer fell prey to the Matt Mercer effect I guess. It probably keeps the pacing for a game more on track to have everyone sit through those scenes if they're open to it. Sidebars via text or other channels like Ovinomancer mention still seem worthwhile to preserve suspense so the...

Yup, the aboleth's memory is pretty long and I imagine they hold grudges for a while. It seems like there's a pretty good reason for the aboleth to send chuuls or other minions after your players for disrespecting it so blatantly in its feeding ground.

Matt Mercer used to do this a lot during the first campaign for Critical Role even after he had been DMing for a very long time, which seemed to fit their playstyle fine, but may have not been modeling the best behavior for others picking up the game from watching their liveplay.

Firstly, I wanted to point out that this isn't a simple abstract conversation for me and it is far more affecting for me than it might be for anyone who doesn't have a relationship with the symbol of the Nazi party specifically targeting people who shared their religious identity and cultural...

Missed this first part—as a Jewish person my gut reaction would certainly be to feel threatened by someone displaying a swastika. I'd accept it depending on the exact nature of representation and religious or cultural significance but a lot depends on the context and on how tone deaf the...

No, of course they're not. As I understand it the argument was conditions were ripe for the rise of a despot who took advantage of the situation and promoted fear in the people to achieve horrendous things against specific subsets of the population. The Holocaust was specifically a genocide...

Renbuu at least seems like a cool guy.

Denazification was a thing that happened to prevent that very sort of thing from happening again, which I guess isn't against your point but feels important to add in to the conversation.

Yugoloths do it for the lulz. What they do with the lulz is a mystery.

Haldrik's idea of aberrations taking the flag for NE daemons certainly would give an out of game justification for why ultroloths look like grey aliens and why the yugoloths don't have much in common with one another. Poor yugoloths never can keep up with those devils and demons in the most...