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There was an old dynamic gnoll model for NWN, so I've given 'em a shot .... Someone really should fix that model up for the newer armor sets though, huh.

Given how WoW is these days, functionally a properly played spellcaster is effectively on this. Mana loss only comes up on ones who don't have it as their role needing to grab heals when doing a non-healing role. Used to be more of an issue but not nowerdays The thing is in Warcraft your mage...

Berserk alone is one of the more influential ones out there. It pretty much popularised the 'warrior with dark armor using a greatsword' and was a massive influence on stuff like Dark Souls. Plus, D&D's taken from anime in Spelljammer at least, Spirit Warriors are just Aura Battlers. I'd argue...

I think this ultimately is the reason Half Elves are getting removed. On a mechanical and conceptual level they, by definition, run into overlap with humans and elves, so it makes the default player options less interesting or diverse. Especially given the Big D&D things around tend to go for...

I really do hate the static unchanging Planes of D&D history so I'm all for it, but I hate actual real life deities being shoved in because why not more so I'm of the 'don't use IRL deities' train I went through a readthrough of Legends and Lore recently and maaaan some of it was bad. Also...

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I mean, you're welcome to give it a shot if you reckon you can out logistics me. Goes for like a buck on Steam. Here's Hard, here's Normal, here's Easy. Regardless though, the gameplay loop that should be rewarded is the one that is the most enjoyable. You can certainly do a lot of logistics...

Is that really highly skilled, though? Like. I am skilled at video games. I hold three world records. My skill doesn't come from counting what I have, it comes from the execution of how to play it, my experience playing it, my knowledge of how to handle bad situations and compensate on the fly...

One one hand I need to poke at how they did their Firbolg, as I'm trying to get 5E style ones over to NWN (because 1-3E style Firbolgs are as easy as 'rescale human' which. I already got that for other giants and titans) but then I cackled at the Hyur, Elezen, Roe and Garleans

I hardly think its a 4e-ism. Its how the game's always been like this because its genre fiction and not trying to emulate real life, even back in AD&D. Like, I'm not even counting the "Rules as written, your regular fighter dude can easily just recruit the services of an elephant-eating giant...

Its hardly the 4E way (and honestly based on a lot of complaints I've heard about 5E, I suspect people do got a bit of fondness for 'everyone can make tactical decisions in combat'), it dates back to Dragonlance at the very least. The general Internet vibe of D&D has rarely placed much influence...

Yes, Har'akir had one settlement that was always noted as being small and tiny, because that was . I know way more about the monster books than I do the main setting books, and let me tell you, there are way too. Like, the monster books are running under the assuption of multiple towns and...

What are we even saving from the old ones? Har'Akir has a city now, which was.... Basically implied by the number of Egyptian-themed critters in every single. Seriously, you could not find a place for all of those Egyptian critters in the domain as written in 2E Falkovnia was trying to be...

oh no why do I have to reveal how much I know about Fate lore okay so its loosely like your pop-culture knowledge of Arthurian lore, including some of the more obscure stuff like Merlin being a cambion and Lancelot's whole states of madness, but Artoria is a woman. Which is also their...

You know exactly what Darklord I'm talking about. Why was he one in the previous books? What great crime did he do to have the Dark Lords drag him in? Because frankly, Harkon was just put in there originally to have "Oh you came prepared for a werewolf but its not, I tricked you!" the domain 5E...

Then what, we just kill every setting because 30 years ago someone wrote some half-baked module on minimum concern for a magazine article, and apparently that half-baked one-off module has such cosmic concern to the ongoing narrative that we can't just ignore it and instead need to either stick...

The problem is at lot of what's already happened is kind of, bad. Ravenloft is the big example of this were a lot of the domains are Just Bad. Not like 'evil bad' but 'I kind of get where you're coming from but man you didn't just fail to stick the landing, you ruined it' There is a point where...

"BLOOD AND BOOBS, the D&D supplment" seems a one way trip to rpghorrorstories if you ask me If we want mature, I want more. Y'know. Writen mature. "Here's two factions. There is no Good or Evil. There are good people on both sides. There are evil people on both sides. They are going to fight...

Jokes on them, Spelljammer has Bionoids (which are just. Guyvers) and Spirit Warriors (which are just. Aura Battlers). The anime's been in there since Spelljammer! I will say though in respect of the new settings, the ones left over are a bit of a harder sell to new audiences. As much as I love...

I mean, I know why they didn't touch a lot of the previous Darklords and that's that a lot of them were kind of. Bad. Its best to think of the Dark Powers as directors, who are absolutely willing to reinvent and re-cast the Darklords as necessary for a new audience. Because man, some of the 2e...