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Jeremy Irons may stay.

Even when they do run it that way (I do), disadvantage on Perception checks isn't enough of a penalty to offset the advantage of being able to function in complete darkness. That's just too valuable a capability. And it makes humans, halflings, and dragonborn a huge liability for the party in...

I think the non-kung-fu spiritual abilities of the class indicate against the proposition that the name is arbitrary.

Clarification question: Do you think that there should be no in-universe codes of conduct that determine whether or not you can be, say, a monk? Or do you allow for such codes and simply think that the alignment system is a poor instantiation of them?

That's the sort of joke that could introduce a metaphysics paper. Whether this indicates the depth of the joke or the shallowness of the field of metaphysics is left as an exercise for the reader.

Personally, to me, what they're describing sounds more along the lines of Pirates of the Caribbean: lighter and breezier than the Star Wars movies. Everybody already knew the "Pirates of the Caribbean" as a fun little ride at the Disney parks, so rolling with it and making it exciting but goofy...

I am unhappy with the implication in this politician's apology that your only mistake was engaging with mean old me. That was not the lesson to be learned here.

I identified the fundamental point of miscommunication. Anything I wrote in response to your discussions of Chesterton and Lovecraft and McEwan would have been repeated variations on the theme of "Not all stories have to have beatable dragons but some do". But if you like: Neil Gaiman and G. K...

This comment seems unnecessarily dismissive for somebody trying to argue in favor of diversity in RPG styles. I haven't seen anyone here trying to limit types of play, least of all myself. The question in the OP is "Is it plausible for dragons to be beatable?" The two possible answers boil down...

Okay. So you can choose a definition that you want to argue makes no sense in this context. Or you can choose a definition that does make sense. Up to you, I suppose. But it seems like any confusion here is self-inflicted.

I think that kind of demonstrates Gaiman's principle, doesn't it? Regardless of the power and logical capabilities of the adversary, the human beats them, because that's the point of the story. (Also Batman obviously has an array of hundreds of drone Bat-decoys secreted all over the world that...

I mean, yeah, you're always going to have to shop around for a DM who shares your vision to a certain extent. Like, I'm not a huge fan of super-high-magic settings. If I find a DM who's running a campaign in a super-high-magic setting, and I play in it, I could complain that I can't ignore the...

That's funny. From my personal experience, the forum posters who most argue about alignment are the ones who say they want to ignore it.

"Selflessness" typically connotes a generalized commitment to helping others, not a commitment to helping one specific other (who wants to hurt many other others). There are lots of puzzles and paradoxes in moral philosophy, but the resolution for this one seems pretty straightforward.

One of my players is playing a half-elf half-dwarf. We use half-elf stats. They're flexible and work well for most parentages.

If you strike something with your longbow, don't expect to be able to use it as a longbow for much longer. It is an instrument optimized to handle enormous stresses of a variety almost entirely different than the ones you have just subjected it to. If you want to be able to bludgeon somebody...

That's not quite what the article says, but okay. I haven't made any claims one way or the other about what trolls and draugs are. I just said that I don't think the words are closely related. I might similarly have said that I don't think English demon and devil are closely related --...

I am skeptical that the words troll and draugr are related. They are both independently present in Old Norse.

Well, it's the one little bit of English-language folklore I know of where the four letters "drow" are used as one word to describe a monster. Given the way he tended to operate, I think it's more likely that Gygax borrowed that word than that he coined a word from "draugr" (pronounced wrongly...

I thought "drow" came from the Orkney "trow", and thence from "troll".