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The treatment of comeliness between Unearthed Arcana, where it debuted (in official rulebooks) in spring 1985, and Oriental Adventures, which came out in fall 1985, is minimal - a little reformatting, a little better editing. But OA wasn't chosen to be the return of the stat - it was just the...

Technically, we've already switched. We're going to be living in 2025 for the time being to get fully used to it before we open up the possibility of taking anything back up from 2014 (other than some adventures - which I'm updating with new monster stat blocks).

I agree that games where the characters are all playing from a more limited palette is well within D&D's reach - even if it's a bit of a lift for the DM. After all, if they all make fighter characters, they're telling the DM something about what they want the campaign to be about. The issue is...

So, you pahked the cah in Dah-jah's yahd?

Advantage on initiative is powerful. That said, this is also in the context of 5e.2024 and a fair number of monsters have a much higher initiative modifier that you might expect by their Dex alone. Some add their proficiency bonus and some seem to have expertise on top of that as well. So I...

So... your counter argument is a straw man on a slippery slope? Is that what I'm seeing here? Posing the idea that the word cheese might somehow be offensive, or appropriative, or othering seems like a bit of stretch. You got a real example? Or is this just going to be hypothetical and hyperbolic?

Is it? Or is that an assumption? A guess?

More hurtful in the end? How? There's plenty of explanation provided. They're making the language more inclusive and the game less unwelcoming to people turned off by the use of those terms, whether appropriative, racist, or holding a little closely to racist tropes. Has this ever been a valid...

One thing my friends and I have noticed is that this campaign is packed with relatively mercurial chaos bringers... and Orym. And I'm sure that has implications for getting to the story and advancing on goals. They should all agree to bring relatively normal characters and make Liam play the...

Well, maybe not all damage types since your basic bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing isn't covered. But I still take the point that this is a big deal - energy damage that didn't rely on an attack roll was one of my reliable ways to damage the high level fighter with an AC above 20 and a cloak...

The more you know... According to Rose Estes, Gygax was not above dropping an anti-Semitic comment. Whether it was a major part of his worldview is unknown. But, honestly, I doubt Gygax picked the term phylactery for a lich's soul repository out of some spite directed at Jews. It's just another...

How do we KNOW you're not a cat?

I used to see lines through people's names. Now, I'm not. No strikeout through Snarf's now. This is with either Safari or Chrome - not current versions (my OS is old on my decade-old iMac).

And the funny part of that is the Paramount+ app on the smart TV in our bedroom will allow us to skip the starting (yay!) but the app on our X-Box-One in our living room doesn't (booo!).

Well, I mean yeah, LotR was shot all at once (barring reshoots) but that was probably more to save on budget than countermeasures for someone croaking mid-trilogy release. Carrie was really only 60 when she died though, maybe with her history of drug abuse someone was thinking along those...

I'd say semi-bleak note. Luke may have gotten maimed, but we see him getting the cybernetic replacement. Han has been captured by a bounty hunter, but the movie ends on our heroes setting plans in motion. And, perhaps most of all, in the backdrop is the massing Rebel fleet. The heroes took a...

Last Jedi has its problems. It largely wastes Finn on a dumb side story and Johnson very much paints himself into a corner with being unambiguous about the amount of time passing during the fleet pursuit and Resistance pleas not being answered. And it's a bleak corner to get stuck in. The...

Overrated: Uncanny X-Men after the death of Jean Grey. It was effing dynamite before that, but after Jean's suicide it really kind of sputters out over the course of the next few years. Much of the chemistry that had been growing between characters starts to get staler and staler. As much as I...

Novelist Tom Robbins has died. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/10/tom-robbins-comic-novelist-of-us-counterculture-dies-aged-92