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For the first hour or so I loved it, and felt like it was easily on track to be the best Superman movie. Very comicbooky, in the best sort of way, while also interrogating the impracticalities of the fundamental naivety that the "good guy punches evil away" narrative of superman is built upon...

Per Wikipedia his given first name is actually Lucion, not Lucian, so that possibly tells you something about the care with which this lawsuit (which does read as being against "Lucian") was prepared. I bring it up mostly because, holy heck does he have an awesome villain name for a Sci-Fi or...

Man, I wish my paycheck had a little "figures in millions" note attached.

The dissonance between characters and npc humanoids is something that bothered me and people I've played with in 5e since that first Redbrand took a second attack against level 2 characters back in Phandalin. 2024 New 5e has, I think, actually cut back on this on the attack front, but then has...

Sure, a whole slew of spells that only target humanoids (Hold Person) will now not target Kalashtar. Meanwhile they are susceptible to a bunch of spells (like Protection from Good and Evil) that affect "Aberrations, Celestials, Elementals, Fey, Fiends, or Undead" (or perhaps variations on that...

Oh sure. But that isn't the only thing they symbolized, because we humans living on this world with only the one species of humanoid tend to read race into D&D races, which is why this whole aspect of the game has become a colossal minefield. Correctly pointing out that they are actually hybrids...

For those who know the fantasy lore of a particular setting, sure. Having clearly labeled biracial options in the PHB spoke to people in a way that never will. I knew that D&D was full of half-elves and half-orcs many years before I ever played an actual game of it.

Personally my budget and price points for cool indy projects and my budget and price points for mass produced WotC products in Walmart or wherever are different things. And yes, a boxed set that is the entire game is a very different prospect than one that anticipates you buying a set of core...

Well those are leveled spells, and we were talking cantrips (ie: the caster's equivalent unlimited resource). I see a goalpost moving. The fact that I've accepted that figuring out the consequences of big spells will slow down combat does not mean that I want to slow down the resolution of...

Well I got all the 5e starter sets because I thought their adventures were really solid ones which hit all the classic D&D notes, and fun starting points to build my own things off of. At the old price points I didn't mind paying for some extra bits of paper or cardboard, a set of dice, etc. I...

A cantrip turn for a non-warlock caster soon becomes a rare, "didn't have something better to do" occasion, whereas the weapon properties are going to get spammed from levels 1-20, many on multiple attacks per round. Also the cantrips that did those things were generally the less damage...

See from my perspective it's more that they came back with a name that doesn't normalize being biracial the way D&D used to, and I felt it was more accepting the way it was.

Nay, nay, nay. I also appreciate the intent. It makes different weapon types more distinct, but it should be entirely player side and resolved in their turn to run well. If it was like, this weapon does an extra d4 on a crit and this other weapon gets a bonus attack under X circumstances I'd be...

Well alright, I don't care about grappling. Let me introduce you to some of my main complaints: 1. I think the whole edition was premised on a wrongheaded view of simplicity. It is now a simpler game in a top down sense of using the same keywords whatever, but it is now a harder game to get...

They shouldn't replace options with completely different options. Leave the option out, don't confuse everything by declaring up to be down. And, even were we to imagine that a 2014 monster making 5d8 hit points of creatures fall asleep for a minute in a 2024 game would be such a catastrophe...

That's because discussion of 5.5 is an Orwellian hellscape where up is down, bad is good, and more complicated is simplified. I'll grant that there are improvements, but they all seem pretty much obvious improvements to make based on 10 years of experience. In many cases they are only...

I just want a big-book of all 5th edition character options and spells, with Tasha's optional class features integrated, so I could have everything handy in print for a given character without lugging 2-5 books to each session, with a few original 2014 PHB things updated to later standards (eg...

Nicondel (Nick) Riordan, a half elf with Arcane Trickster and Bladesinger wizard levels. He had a legitimate career in appraising magic items for auction, but used is as an opportunity to fence stolen goods and find deserving targets to rob and eventually had to flee to Sigil, which he also...

I feel like the vibe of this thread is a lot of clever people who clearly hate necromancers coming up with high concept ways to disappoint would-be necromancers. You all should just ban them and the necromancy spells from your table if they're actually causing you so much trouble. Better than...

I really could not disagree more. There are already far too many "do one thing with a clear intended purpose and nothing more" spells (and abilities, and whatever), and not enough "give you a weird tool to be applied creatively to a variety of situations" spells (etc.). Being able to be...