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It's hard, and I get it. My particular challenge is that I worry that even trying to engage in discussion is just asking to get sucked into a culture war debate. I would actually discuss the flaws in Star Trek Discovery or The Last Jedi or The Acolyte or the recent Doctor Who if I weren't...

That's around. There's a monster in Spelljammer that has a brain extraction attack, if it takes a PC to 0 hp with it, that PC dies and their brain gets extracted. No save. Party got unlucky and I landed it on the Rogue. While running Light Of Xaryxis.

Yeah, I always use average damage, double it on a crit. The only exception might be spells or breath weapons. As a DM, I too want the joy of rolling a fistful of d6s

To be honest, if I start running games in person soon, I'll definitely be using a screen. My laptop is... unreliable and I can't afford to replace it, so I'll have to go to old school pencil and paper

Don't spoil the ending!

Yeah, I'll use a DM screen, but all my combat rolls are in the open. I can't use portrait screens, too tall for me, has to be landscape.

I don't doubt, given the book is done and off to printers that WotC would love to let us get the book earlier, this is a logistical problem. 3K books for GenCon is a drop in the ocean to how many they're printing and selling everywhere else. Also, man I miss Gen Con.

So, for the brewers, and as a general topic ... how do you scale a game when the players are tiny animals? Do you just scale up the world so a mouse is considered medium or have the PCs be tiny?

Alt. I was waffling back and forth over which to get, but once I thought I couldn't get the alt, I was disappointed, lol, so that told me what I really wanted.

Almost certainly. And they changed my order to the alt cover without any problems, so thanks again for the tip, or I'd have left it.

While turning into animalfolk upon arriving in Bloomburrow is kinda a way for WOTC to have their cake and eat it, I do love that we got Otter Ral, and it does tickle me with the idea of a multiversal campaign passing through Bloomburrow so all the PCs have to discover their fursonas. It's a bit...

While the accuracy of survey data is certainly disputable, I still believe it's a far better view of DnD players in aggregate than anything here or previously attempted. I grow tired of aspersions and conspiracy theories leveled at the designers when they make decisions people disagree with.

That made sense to me. Qimir instantly knew the difference between the twins, but Sol cannot, it's a sign of how twisted and in denial Sol is over his emotions about Osha. Indara knew it from the start. What I like about the Acolyte was that it ... played fair ... there is that tragedy of...

Ultimately, yes, more conservative (as in the word, not the politics) designs won out. I get the disappointment, I was hoping for wildshape templates. That said, there is an advantage, the more radical the changes, the less useful older content is and the more it's an actual edition change...

Depends on the setting. Eberron? No. I like that the gods are unknown there. Forgotten Realms, where they've been known to walk the world? Sure.

I think I realized that I stopped caring about the twins and therefore a lot of the last episode fell flat for me. Loved the Qimir and Sol duel. Was indifferent to most of the rest.

There's a bit of both. What I've seen of the books indicates that they are going to be much more readable and accessible. OTOH, it's a weighty tome now!

Definitely, the gameplay made it look like Bioware was taking more influence from Dark Souls esque playstyle (not to say it is going to play that way), which will help differentiate it. Also agreed that both DA:I and ME:A would have been helped if they'd had all the romanceable companions be...

I called BG3 my game of the decade, and it has raised the bar by an insane margin on both Larian and other RPG developers. Poor Bioware, already in trouble, Dragon Age Veilguard has the impossible task of righting a sinking ship and scaling raised expectations.

... Thanks for telling me this, because I double-checked and they've got the alt-arts back in stock for preorder. Now I have to decide whether or not to change it.