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You have no idea what you are talking about. Lorraine Williams had nothing to do with the gaming hobby and often mocked Gygax. She was only involved because her brother mentioned her as a possible investor to Gygax while they were working on the D&D cartoon together.

Gary was terrible at business as were the Blumes. That is true. Lorraine Williams only became part of TSR because Gary was in Hollywood trying to get a D&D movie made. He was working with Frank Dillie. Lorraine is Frank’s brother and he introduced Gary to Lorraine. Lorraine did some shady stuff...

Resistance and immunity should go the way of the dodo. There is no reason o have them when weapon resistances and immunity are no longer a thing. A monk’s fist generating force damage is laughable.

My most memorable movie experience as a kid was seeing Star Wars when it first hit theaters in the 70’s. I was totally blown away. As an adult it was the scene in total recall when Arnold tells Hauser I the video that it was all a set up. He was duped and bad Arnold wanted his body back. It was...

I remember the original City State of the Invincible Overlord. It wasn’t that great. The prototype of the major city. It was Waterdeep before Waterdeep was a thing. I certainly won’t back it now and my opinion of Goodman’s Games has nosedived.

I like that the new ranger subclass doubles down on Hunter’s Mark. It almost feels like trolling by WOTC.

Crits are 5% chance. People make fun of champion fighters who crit 15% of the time as not worth the investment. Sure if you white room chromatic orb you can come up with a number of excuses but most fall flat. Bless cast on a sorcerer can help slightly. Bardic die is almost worthless since it...

Again, I am skeptical of your analysis. Fireball hits more targets period. For you to get the extra damage and bounces you have are demonstrating, you have to upcast Chromatic Orb. Are you upcasting fireball to get similar results? I.E a 5th level chromatic orb is . 7D8 damage vs a 5th level...

I don’t buy this simply because the possibility exists you can miss at any moment with chromatic orb and the chain is ruined. A similar claim might be made for evasion but that is mostly a PC power that I haven’t seen in monsters yet. The only way fireball is stopped is with monster immunity to...

That makes sense. Much of D&D traffic is on D&D Beyond and they were tinkering with game rules for DM Guide and Monster Manual weeks before launch. You can’t do that if you have a massive print run overseas due to logistical reasons. I find it a bit amusing that all of the WOTC haters...

Zard, did you get torched once too often by fireball? To compare it to chromatic orb is beyond ridiculous. You always have a 5% miss chance with chromatic orb no matter what. The bounce is never guaranteed nor is hitting multiple targets. Its only advantage is that it’s a much better damage...

The buckets of hit points make a lot of your concentration spells less appealing. You still have to burn them down. Fear causes a panic which is great out in the open but breaks as soon as a monster runs around the corner. Legendary Resistances makes any of your spells moot. A lot of the spells...

All those are concentration effects. You can’t stack them and only slow is selective unless you are a sorcerer. Unless I was involved with creatures that have fire immunity I would take fireball over any of them.

Actually wolves will clump together because of pack tactics. Wolves attack en masse IRL. They would be very susceptible to AOE. The radius for fireball is huge and it hits most creatures on most maps. You don’t want extremely loose formations because it’s a simple way to get picked off for...

It is the go to spell at 3rd level. It’s a gigantic leap in power and my first choice unless the campaign specifically restricts it. Since I play sorcerers and evoke wizards it’s not suboptimal unless I am encountering fire immunity monsters or environments that specifically negate it. It is S tier.

Fireball is S tier. Why? It’s iconic. Demonstrating the PC’s first real jump in power. Everyone knows it and a distinct minority hate it. If it were any other spell I probably would not have posted a reply but fireball will always be my choice unless I am I the Nine Hells. Rock on fireball!

I don’t think the art per se is bad in the main boos but in the Dragon Lance novels they recently released it’s an abomination. I wish they would let Larry Elmore draw Tanis Half-Elven because the artist or CGI rendering was straight out of the Abyss.

Yep, in order to not hurt the fragile ego’s of martial characters silver weapons do more damage 5-10% of the time. Way to drop the ball WOTC. Martial characters should be ashamed of themselves.

I completely disagree. Wolverine broods like Conan. He is not an outright good character but has his moments. He also has a chivalric code towards women very similar to Conan.