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This is one of his bad rulings, too. It seems to me that the correct ruling was upthread, in keeping with the spell's language regarding a thing being enlarged in a small container, things that physically interfere the size transformation, such as the door being attached to the wall, should...

The WotC book campaigns have self-contained setting information. Yes, they're all based in the Forgotten Realms, but if none of the FR material had existed, and the first time anybody had hit on the idea of "the Underdark" or "House Do'Urden" was the publication of Out of the Abyss, it wouldn't...

I like the 5e Valor Bard, do not particularly care for the Lore Bard, and actively dislike the power creep introduced in XGtE, which introduces selfish uses of your Bardic Inspiration that are so powerful that nobody who picks them even wants to help teammates. Let's see, I could give you +1d10...

Yeah, I would have liked to see them work more at growing Starfinder. But maybe that's not possible. What do I know? Armchair businessmen are a dime a dozen. I haven't been able to reach my team of book-burning commandos all week due to the ice storm. It may be too late.

It's less about the use of a 20-sided die than it is the D&D-inspired fantasy. I have a GURPS-based dungeon crawler that is just D&D, but with different math, and as such, I can't be bothered to play it. In the case of PF2 and so many others, having evil chroma dragons and good metal dragons...

My biggest complaint about Pathfinder 2 is that "D&D but with different math" is anything but healthy market diversity.

I mean did a single player in the history of 3.x gaming care that a monster was able to bite him in the face because of "Monster Feat: Improved Face-Biting" instead of it just being in the stat block?

All I wanted to add to this thread was it was kind of humorous that the OP had pirates using press gangs, since that was something the Royal Navy used, and more than a fair few pirates were runaways from what was a slave navy in practice if not in name. If it hasn't been recommended, the...

I wish Paizo had come out with something that wasn't so much CTRL-C CTRL-V from Dungeons & Dragons. Over the last few years, I've gotten Dungeon Crawl Classics, GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, ACKS, and Castles & Crusades, and I've run none of them, because I realized something: a slightly different way...

Paizo during its 1e era had about the same market share as WotC, and of course, WotC's 4e license was extremely restrictive, so that hardly any 3rd parties bothered with it. Today, D&D alone is something like half the total market, and P2e's share appears to be in the single digits. If you're a...

AL rules forbid chaining Simulacrum, but the RAW in the book doesn't. It really should, though.

Well, the word is used in a variety of ways. In the case of Dungeons & Dragons, it's a consumer product, so I feel pretty comfortable using it the way we do in any industry. It's a being sold to customers for a purpose, and customers overall seem really happy with what they're getting...

I usually take "an object" to mean something the party could conceivably carry otherwise. A 100' statue carved from a monolith is a no-go.

Yes, e.g., the horsepower and fuel efficiency of a motor can be measured objectively, but what impressed consumers 35 years ago is disappointing today. This is what the "time" arrow on the Kano model of quality is referring to. Over time, things that make something "high quality" become baseline...

None of that contradicts anything I said. Yes, "high quality" is relative, and new things can exceed old things. A high quality computer display from 1987 isn't much today.

Different price points.

We would have to reboot human knowledge if we actually did this.

Well, I'm not saying things that aren't made for the mass market are bad. I'm saying saying the ultimate judge of whether something is fit for its purpose and does the job well is the person who uses it. So the first question is really what the purpose of something is, and whom it's for. I...

The MCU movies are, despite my loathing of most of them, quite well made as mass-market entertainment products. Not only did people enjoy them, but success built on success in a way that many movie franchises failed to, whether we're talking about Lethal Weapon, DCU, or Star Trek. Denying that...

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