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Nice backhanded way to call me a snob for bringing it up. You're kind of missing my point. There is cognitive dissidence on behalf of the community when the majority group eye goes from a thoughtful, deep and compelling game filled with mastercraft storytelling to a brainless snickerfest filled...

Palworld is essentially what would happen in a Pokemon world if people (and Pokemon) reacted more 'realistically' (read - depraved)...

I knew BG3 could not stay on top of the video game world forever ... but I really wish the game that unseated it was not Porno Pokemon.

We could be more efficient - or slightly less inebriated - during that game. Just to pull up the data: The DMG identifies how much XP a PC should earn in an 'adventuring day' at each level, and the PHB identifies how much experience it takes to advance a level. That is meant to represent 4...

A memo outlining the WotC 2023 approach to the Open License.

From a story perspective, it can be iconic. To that end, if you want to give a feel to a PC, it is a real good choice. From an efficiency perspective, it is highly dependent upon the DM and their game design. It can be a feat you take at level 4 and get to use twice by level 20, or it can be...

Interestingly, I think that being a big sack of hps with low AC and high damage in a humanoid form is kind of the epitome of an ogre. I get where you're going, and I agree that monsters generally need to have something that makes them stand out ... but sometimes you just need the base model...

If you change everything proportionally, then reducing the amount merely serves to lessen your control by reducing the precision of your numbers. For example, dealing 2 damage to a creature with 5 hps has similarities to dealing 20 damage to a creature with 50 hps ... but you take away the...

A deck of cards. An empty bottle. A broken locket. A jewelry box. A child's blanket. A crushed wedding band. A tarnished crown. Anything that would have been the focus of the worst day of someone's life.

In 3E, an efficient (not optimized - just efficient) 3E game, we'd often see monsters that the DM spent quite a bit of time assembling go down before they did anything. They might as well have been a potato. I recall one battle with a Frost Giant Jarl and its mount, a Frost Drake (a dragon...

Our experiences are quite different. I just counted up the hours played from a campaign I am in (via Roll20) and we're 7tgh level and have played well over 80 hours - closer to 100. I'm very surprised that our experiences are so amazingly different given that mine are based upon a variety of...

When great talent and great planning align, amazing things result. I hope you'll set some long term goals for your materials and keep working towards them. The community has historically had a lot of respect for your essential contributions to the quality of the game we hold dear.

True - however not entirely relevant here. If you run a PC with a specific design from level 1 to 20 and the DM doesn't factor the design of your PC into the campaign design - specifically in a way that allows the PC to get magic that supports their character concept - it is likely not a great...

Against individual high AC foes - generally yes (luck of the dice, consistent advantage, etc... aside). However, again, I was speaking of trends across encounters and not battle with one higher AC foe. Even DMs that prefer high AC foes throw in some monsters with lower AC, and if you simulate...

In most games there are ways to get items you want to have. Either you tell the DM and they place them (as is one suggestion in the DMG), they craft them (as there are rules in the DMG to provide), or the DM just has magic markets built into their setting. Not all DMs do, but between the DMs...

I'd love to hear you elaborate a bit more on whether you anticipate aligning your upcoming work with Tales of the Valiant, Pathfinder or Daggerheart as well as D&D. Also, for the material that is designed to work with D&D - are you thinking of trying to get a portion of it onto DNDBeyond?

If you're fighting low AC enemies, GWM is phenomenal. If your DM tends to use higher ACs, it has reduced effectiveness. It is also often not a battle between ASI and GWM due to the commonality of strength items. I'm not saying that every GWM character finds a belt of giant strength ... but a...

When it comes down to how much he can capitalize upon the work he did with WotC/Hasbro in his new ventures there are three concerns: Copyright/IP concerns, contractual concerns, and quality of life concerns. Absent the other concerns, Copyright/IP is easily maneuvered around for game mechanics...

People gravitate to horror because they are attracted to actual storytelling and horror inherently invokes the idea of a story incredibly efficiently. This is not me claiming everything horror has a meaningful story. That is obviously not true. A lot of horror movies are just excuses to be...

This issue has popped up a few times since BG3 came out due to the way that game has allowed people to scribe higher level spells into their spellbook, but the idea is to be as restrictive as other classes. As a DM, I allow players to 'scribe' spells that are higher than their level into their...