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I'll admit, I'm a little conflicted on this. My assumption, if I'm DMing, is any player is free to customize a background as they wish. Swap out the feat, skills, ability scores? All fine. But messing around with character generation right now, I've been theory building as if they're locked...

Mainly looking forward to have the physical copy in my hands

Went and saw this with a friend last night. Realized that this was the first Alien movie I'd seen in theaters, despite seeing all of them except Alien 3 (even both AVP movies). Alien and Aliens were common VHS fair, I remember a sleepless childhood sleepover. But as someone who's never been a...

One fun trick with Arcane Vigor is that it triggers the ability on Bloodwell Vial (because you're spending hitdice to heal) so a Sorcerer can cast this spell to recover Sorcery Points. Once per day, but still ... I know Sorcererous Burst and Starry Wisp aren't the best cantrips, but I really...

Knowing how a story ends isn't a killer ... they tell you how Romeo and Juliet ends at the beginning. Babylon 5 and other Scifi often do time travel stories as "closed loops", where you do know the ending before it happens (A character tells you his fate in the first episode ... and he's right)...

I tend to view Druidic as a vaguely magical language. It can be written into the bark of a tree (without carving) as a secret message only another Druid would read. Highly contextual, it resists learning by non-Druids because the same shapes and patterns could be meaningless if it appeared in a...

I know the UA had rules for which weapon masteries can go with which types of weapons, but that seems to be missing from the actual printed PHB (aside from Nick). So why not Graze or Cleave? Graze kinda makes sense if we think of the Sabre as a cavalry weapon. I know it's a finesse weapon here...

My understanding is it's an anthology series, similar to Love, Death +Robots, or Star Wars Visions. Different takes on an overarching theme (here it's games), but independent from each other. This isn't What If?.

If it were me, or if I were to pitch a book, I'd go for Adventurers From Across the Multiverse. It'd be more or less a PH2, but I'd use different settings as chapters. Maybe a generic chapter for a bunch of subclasses that are missing. Eberron would then have the Artificer, Dragonmarks...

I have mixed feelings. By the end, I wasn't that into the Acolyte, thought that the most interesting characters were dead, so this does make a S2 a hard sell for me. OTOH, I thought the show had some possibility and great fight scenes, so I'd have at least given a second season a try. If nothing...

I, on the other hand, believe that after Nemesis and Enterprise killed Star Trek (for awhile), that nothing made since Trek's rebirth has been as bad as those two. I have mixed feelings over Picard, I like Disco but respect its experimental nature isn't for everyone, but there are reasons that...

Planning to change over, but will still be converting old material. I still intend to run Wild Beyond Witchlight or finally run Savage Tide AP. It helps that I'm not currently playing in a 5e campaign, so I'm just planning to start after I get the new Core books.

One thing that hasn't been heavily discussed, but I've noticed a heavy push (aside from weapon masteries and Stunning Strike) towards cutting down two-stage resolution of effects. Spells and effects generally have either a saving throw or an attack role, not both. Apparently a lot of the CR 1...

Hasbro has been shaking WotC upside-down for spare change for years, the spike in MTG content has become the new norm. The challenge is that outside of WotC, Hasbro is in trouble. Toys aren't selling as well. This is why I tend to be softer towards WotC BS and scandal, name your issue. I view...

Outside of the general glow-up on classes, hopefully making them all more fun to play, I like the new casting rule (No two spell slots in a round, over the earlier can only cast a cantrip if you use a spell slot on a bonus action spell) and exhaustion rules because they provide the same benefit...

Fascinating. This is the problem/joy of the Olympics, we all get to indulge in some armchair quarterbacking and become experts in things we just discovered. I was watching fencing, the bronze medal match with Eleanor Harvey winning Canada's first ever fencing medal in the Games, and while was...

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No, the name Paladin still has some cachet, I think 5e struck the right balance of flexibility for different settings while still feeling like a Paladin. I do worry that the Paladin does make design of other gish-esque classes tricky because it clearly stakes out its design space, I wouldn't...

High level ballroom is very athletic, but I get it's not everyone's cup of tea. Heck, I only competed at a middling level and a full round of Jive reduced my legs to jelly.

There is no way to trade or cash out of MtG Arena, it's entirely a sunk cost. One could with their earlier client, MTG Online, which does support trading and selling and renting cards. But ... that client is ancient and shows it. Honestly, that's why while I still play paper MTG, I don't touch...