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No, the name is still problematic as well. What phylacteries can you point to in media or publications (outside of D&D) that aren’t tefflin?

Perhaps consider the text about lich phyalacteries in 3e: “The most common form of phylactery is a sealed metal box containing strips of parchment on which magical phrases have been transcribed. The box is Tiny and has 40 hit points, hardness 20, and a break DC of 40.” While they say that other...

A significant problem is it’s not easy to find usage of the term phylactery as an amulet in readily available sources. They tend to point to Jesus criticizing Pharisees for too much ostentation, which gets us right back it being a Greek word used for tefflin. I kind of figure it entered the D&D...

Why would I bother trying to do so? Authors generally try to engage people with their writings - that may be positive, it may be negative. Either way, I'm going to read because it's got my passions, my interests, and my view/feelings riled up. And if I'm not engaged, I'm reading because, for...

How about this?

Wooo, I'm up to 20, which I think is my all-time high. Some are there for the same reasons you cite, others for finally getting on my last nerve and ending up there. I've been using it a LOT more recently...

I consider bounded accuracy to be less of a difference point between 5e and AD&D versions than 3e/4e. While some characters effectively had 20 levels of increasing ability to hit (fighter-types), one of the key features of AD&D was a bound on Armor Class. 2e's bound on AC was a bit soft for...

Yeah, I can't help but think inflation is a big deal in some of these issues. When I bought my 1e Player's Handbook in 1981, I paid $11 for it. That's $37 in 2024 dollars. That may be less than the current $50, but it was also a lot smaller and, by the rules, had a lot less game in it. The DMG...

I feel much the same way. I think, for me at least, the shift back to magic items being extraneous to the character build was a huge factor. Looking back at my 3e/PF1 experiences, the magic item economy had a massive impact - and I've come to feel that it's not in a good way. At least, it's not...

I’m reading this and I’m like, you wanna see the MCU deviating from the original comic material? Look no farther than Hawkeye. He may be humble, good at connecting in the MCU. But in the original material he’s often brash, obnoxious, and quarrelsome. His heart’s in the right place, but his...

I think the street date is February 18. But Wizards Play Network stores (is that the right term?) have 2 week early bird privileges. I would have mine now if it weren't from a shipping snafu with my FLGS.

Probably the same people saying the earth is flat.

My daughter has been using D&D Beyond for years, but our main Thursday night group has only just started doing so with the 2024 rules. So far, things seem to be working pretty well. I'm also setting up the characters on Roll20 for those weeks we have to be remote (due to illness, etc). And there...

I certainly hope so. The lack of monster building/modifying guidelines is a definite annoyance. I use the ones for 2014 quite a bit - mostly for adjusting the CR of monsters.

As I pointed out in a related thread about ogres and ogrillons, when one hand taketh (orcs from being killable on sight for being inherently destructive) another hand giveth (gnolls in 2014, now ogres, ogrillons, and goblins). But in another sense, the 5e.2024 goblins are kind of being...

Ah, yes, the full caps are the very essence of chill.

Well, she is his goddaughter. Don’t ask how he treated Kristoff, though. 😳

FYI, that’s basically the Ultimates version of Hawkeye, even down to him going psycho when they were all dead (though due to a Thanos snap as opposed to really dead in the Ultimates).