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Having read both of your posts, I'm pretty sure you and @Micah Sweet are in agreement on this topic. You're both explaining the same approach to the rules in slightly different words.

This post is another progress report. I had less free time than normal this weekend, so there’s less progress to report than in previous weeks. (As much as I’d like to work on this sourcebook I'm writing full time, I can only look at it when I get a spare hour here or there.) I had enough time...

Power creep is table-dependent. If the game increases the average power level without increasing the maximum possible power level, that's only power creep at a table where players aren't interested in optimization. At a table where all players optimize their characters, increasing just the...

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Yep. I believe that's the Evereskan term for what's more generally described in the novels as "making the Elvish sign for" a word, or language to that effect. There's also the Trade Tongue of Kara-Tur, which is a pidgin made up of borrowed words and gestures. So that's another Realms language...

Random sign language trivia: There was a Dwarvish sign language in the 2e Complete Book of Dwarves, and a character in one of the Forgotten Realms novels uses (non-drow) Elvish sign language.

This speaks to one of the big complaints I have about the use of the Invisibility condition in the new rules. You have presented a consistent, common sense, workable way to apply the hiding rules and the Invisibility spell at the table. But even with all the benefits of common sense, the...

I think you've successfully identified what's causing friction in discussions about the hiding rules. I suspect some people who are pointing out the absurdity of the RAW are trying to make a similar point, albeit in a more circumspect manner. The new rules for hiding are trying to have their...

I'm convinced the Alien franchise takes place in a future where ubiquitous VR entertainment has desensitized the average human to any sort of danger or mystery. Everyone reacts to their environment as if it was a computer simulation with no long-term physical consequences. Giant alien corpse...

That's probably the excuse the movies uses, but it seems kind of silly to launch a survey drone and then not save the drone data to the computer you're lugging around alongside the survey drone. Those characters shouldn't need to rely on wifi to access a map file they created themselves. Then...

Did "Prometheus" ever explain how two characters got lost while wandering around underground... after their drone uploaded a 3d map of the entire tunnel system?

I don't know. Does Jaws count as a horror movie? That film can elicit a sense of heightened anxiety entirely unjustified by any factual information viewers know about sharks. Based on that, I'd say it's possible to make an effective horror movie about something that's scary like a tiger...

And Then There Are Mountains I’ve spent much of my free time this week adding details to the regional maps I'll be using in my book. Ideally, I’d add those details to a single, high-resolution globe of the world, which I would later break down into regional maps. Sadly, my ancient computer...

"Emanation" was a game term in 3e D&D. Pathfinder copied it directly from the SRD.

Incidentally, the Feywild is just a re-named Plane of Faerie, which was introduced in 3e.

Isn't that how the rules already work? I've heard rumors that the 2024 PHB makes a distinction between moving (which you do voluntarily) and being transported (which happens when someone else repositions you). If that's true, it sounds like dragging someone through Spike Stones just "transports"...

If I'm DMing and the PCs find some way to gain control of enough peasants, I would totally allow them to build a peasant railgun if they were so inclined... ...but, since the players are insisting on applying turn-based mechanics to an entire city's worth of NPCs, I would insist on putting...

I'm not asking to challenge your ruling, just to get clarification, because I'm genuinely curious: If a character successfully hides during combat and then comes out of hiding to make an attack, you would give them a surprise round in the middle of combat? Is that in place of their normal turn...

Feeblemind is now Befuddlement, but Crown of Madness is still Crown of Madness. When I heard they were changing one of them, I was sure they'd change both. Instead, they only half committed to it.

Not only that, but the Guide Background is the only wilderness-themed Background in the PHB. So by default, everyone who grows up in the wilderness learns spells. Apparently, the wilderness itself is now synonymous with spellcasting.