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Absolutely, but so are the ethics, say, of producing things by means of industrial production. Which is to say, I tend to ignore the ethical issues when making prognostications about the economics or future of AI art, because radical revolutions in production method (of the sort that turn the...

The scale, history, and synergies of WotC's operation make non-AI fantasy art more affordable to them than their competitors. In a market where you have a competitive advantage on one sort of product, stigmas against an economical alternative to that product favor you.

I'm confident it's not yet economical for them to do that, as even the entirety of official TSR and WotC art would not be enough to train an effective AI, specifically since so much of the art they have, and need, is for weird fantastical creatures, which AI art generally struggles to produce...

In response to all the "use an action to regain ki" and similar proposals, I have to reiterate my prior stance that ki should just be dropped for all the things a monk does on an average turn. At the point where a limited resource is freely regenerating it is no longer meaningfully a limited...

WotC are one of the companies that benefits most from AI art being stigmatized, having both a vast trove of art they've already paid for to recycle and being able to parlay being the publisher of both Magic and D&D to reuse art between the two to make properly human-created art more economical...

Sure, which is why it might not be a dealbreaker for me (to play at tables where I had that level of rules control) if the 2024 game offered things I really liked. Heck, I would probably be happy just adding up the total number of spells I can prepare at all levels and preparing that many, no...

I think it was mainly to have a tense and dramatic end to the episode. Frakes directed episodes 3 and 4 and Stewart and him evidently reworked a lot of their scenes together and tried them various ways. Some of the choices may have drifted a little from what the writers originally intended...

Ki is the problem. Having it equal your monk level was the original sin of the class in 5e, and having so many things run off ki compounded the issue immensely. Drop Ki, or make it a more limited resource used only for stunning strike and some high end subclass abilities (but just making...

Oh my god, all Socrates ever posts is those dumb reaction videos. Why do people even subscribe to him?

Well first off they are seemingly foisting it on all spellcasters, and second off they are tying the number of spells you have prepared of each level to the specific number of slots at each level. Thus a level 5 caster has exactly four level 1 spells, three level 2 spells and two level 3 spells...

I mean that's a fair distinction. Really the question here is not "will there be a split" but rather "will there be an unusually large split for an edition change". I personally suspect it will, for a time, be an unusually large split, at least for the tiny amount of stuff there is to actually...

I think basically everyone would agree that the rules of class features run with the class granting them, not whatever class happens to be in the same PHB as the class of the character receiving them. It is a 2014 Bard class feature that grants that particular bardic inspiration, not a 2024 Bard...

What an appropriate thread to revive from the dead after 5 years.

They implied it couldn't be done, but it seems like something any hero engineer in Star Trek history jury-rig in a matter of seconds. Also are holodecks also replicators now? I don't remember it ever being established that food and drink in holodecks work, but many of the extended holodeck...

Well, episode 4 maintains the streak of the show being much better and more satisfying than prior seasons. They're really stretching to get the most use out of that Ten Forward set possible. It was one thing using it in episode 3, but they use it in two more ways in episode 4, one of which is...

I think the real sales pitch for 5.5 is a quiet threat of "buy in, or be left behind by the zeitgeist". It was a pretty effective pitch for some of us, but highly dependent on the perceived inevitability of OneD&D imminently dominating the hobby and the D&D cultural scene. Post OGL-debacle they...

Oh absolutely. I was definitely speaking way outside the realm of what might be in any variation of D&D branded 5e game anytime soon. But in the coming clone age there will be 5e flavors available for all tastes.

Well, it is when the rules revisions are basically a wash for most people. If they were addressing a bunch of things that had been widely agreed upon complaints about 5e I think it would be a different story. If there were more widely agreed upon complaints about 5e, things that most people...

I mean, personally I think Warlock should be a prestige class (or set of prestige classes) for after you form a pact with some being of great power. Generally I think that's how a slew of character ideas that presume some sort of highly consequential event (like getting knighted or contracting...

I mean, I take the stance that Rage is transformative and major enough to warrant a subclass based around it, but otherwise I agree. In many systems its perfectly fine as a class, but the 5e class/subclass schemes just demands too many variants for what is a pretty thematically one-note class...