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You gloss over "born under unusual circumstances" and "learns martial arts and various paranormal abilities" awfully quickly.

The 3E drunken master PrC lifted the lawful restriction.

Uh... I don't want to get too deep into the weeds on this, but I don't think this is accurate to his bio in Journey to the West.

Man, Sam Riegel has had a long acting career. :D I'm not actually arguing in favor of a return to alignment restrictions. You could, like @Envisioner, take the Monkey King as the exception that proves the rule... but PCs are exceptional too, so chaotic monks are fair game as far as I'm...

He's a god.

When this hero is fighting the dragon, is he thinking that he's going to win because it makes for a better story? Or is he thinking things like "How can I avoid the fearsome beast's fiery breath?" and "How can I put something sharp and pointy into a tiny gap in those scales?" I think it likely...

A knowing parody of Buddhist tropes. You think it's a coincidence he's bald? ;)

@NotAYakk My own thoughts on tweaking the sorcerer are very similar -- get rid of flexible casting to put more emphasis on metamagic. But I was also thinking of increasing the amount of metamagic options a sorcerer has available. Like, by a lot. Maybe to one per level. (Fortunately, it's easy to...

Blackadder is an excellent example of what was being talked about upthread, where delivery can elevate the script. The jokes are not bad, to be sure, but on paper they're pretty blunt instruments compared to some other classic comedies famed for their writing. Get the greatest British comedians...

Imagine avoiding recreational activities with certain people because they are funny.

I'm sorry, but I'm still basically asking, "So what?" I used the phrase "fairy tale simulator", so now we're trying to draw a distinction between simulating the rules of the fairy-tale world versus simulating the rules of fairy-tale fiction? Although I could quibble over a couple of things you...

Just take a look at the structure of an OD&D adventure module. It's not a wargame scenario. It's, well, it's an adventure. I'm not trying to make any especially subtle or deep observation with this: it's just about a story in a way that wargames aren't. Taking a step back a bit, what is the...

I think OD&D is already a fairy-tale simulator. It stopped being a wargame approximately when it stopped being Chainmail.

And yet I don't think you could say that "being a medieval wargame" is currently a primary design goal for the game's writers, nor has it been for the past forty-odd years. Evolution is weird like that sometimes. Tolkien would disagree.

I worry that Matt Mercer's poor humble head would explode if he got a multimillion dollar feature film. I suspect it will ostensibly be set in the Realms, but I also suspect it will be very, very lore-light and self-contained.

It did in 3E. Which I thought was a little weird, because it's certainly physically possible to move at your full normal speed when you can't see -- blind people do it all the time.

A light cantrip in a dark cave is an 80-foot glowing "I AM HERE" sign. Darkvision is not.

There is a pretty big difference between the claims "authentic 19th-Century English is unintelligible" and "certain regional accents of English are unintelligible". Technically true, but it is certainly possible to write in a more formal style where the audience doesn't notice the slang...

Recording of authentic 19th-Century English: English does get eventually unintelligible as you go back, of course. Since this thread is about a quasi-medieval fantasy movie, it may be worth noting that medieval English would not be easy going. But the language in its 19th-Century form is...

Still Mind, Purity of Body, Wholeness of Body, Timeless Body, Empty Body, Perfect Self... to me, those all paint a pretty clear picture of somebody engaging in the fantasy version of a Buddhist monk's path to spiritual enlightenment through asceticism and mental discipline, as opposed to...