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I think 5e favored ranged attack too much already without opening up Divine Smites to ranged attack. I totally like the idea of a ranged paladin being viable, but in a game where ranged attack not only gives you all the advantage of not having to be in danger or waste turns moving into combat...

I haven't gotten around to watching that show, so I can't really opine, but, accepting your analysis, if I have to turn off the part of my brain that is invested in Middle Earth content to appreciate a piece of Middle Earth content it should not be made as Middle Earth content. Just make it...

I think part of the problem with creating more Middle Earth content is that despite Middle Earth was so thoroughly constructed around telling the stories of Morgoth and the Silmarils and of Sauron and the Ring. Where this paid dividends was in being able to have Sauron be a compelling villain...

Personally I was more invested in Strange New Worlds characters by three episodes in than I was for the whole 2 and a half seasons I trudged through of Discovery. Obviously mileage varies considerably on these things; I may have just hit Discovery at the wrong time in my life and Strange New...

While I voted "as long as it needs to be", I think really only creatures who have mythic forms, or who are both high level monsters and high level spellcasters should be longer than a page. Or if they are a complicated creature who is also wielding a complicated artifact weapon I'd rather have...

You can Wish for it. But yeah, by my account it belongs to no other subclass, nor race, nor dragonmarked bonus spell list, nor is their any feat to get paladin spells, nor is evocation a school you can get spells from under the Fey Touched or Fiend Touched feats. That basically exhausts the...

Alright, I want to clarify what the linked article only obtusely eludes to through a quote from someone's twitter. This is not the first time Beatty has done this with Dick Tracy. He did it before in 2010 with another, not quite so low effort half-hour TCM special (by which I mean I think it was...

I mean, certainly one should hate the franchise aspect of franchise entertainment. It is what guarantees that even when something is actually, legitimately good it will eventually get additional installments that aren't good. Every franchise must eventually get at least one...

While you might be within your rights (certainly some usages on the cover, with no logos, to establish compatibility would be acceptable), I don't know why you want to tread into a legal minefield just to do free advertising for a company that may well thank you with litigation. At this juncture...

I mean, you can't turn into animals anymore. You can turn into a standard statblock with the appearance of some animal. Way simpler to play and adjudicate, and a Druid player no longer has to consult the monster manual and online guides to figure out what they should be turning into. But I just...

I mean, it will almost certainly be garbage. Garbage with very nice production design if they use Jackson's people, but garbage nonetheless. While I don't want to further amplify the awe that the "big worldbuilding fantasy" authors, and Tolkien in particular, are held in, I think fundamentally...

I don't think it needs rebooting, per se. I think the people writing official materials just need to realize that most players don't care about their established NPCs and their histories, and that they should stop trying to make factions happen. The impossible amount of lore is great as stuff to...

Oh damn, mine was going to have elves. Thanks for the tip!

I want this one:

I'd be happy if I could just teach myself to be sure there is a thought I actually want to post, before I type three paragraphs, feel unsure, leave it unposted in a browser window to marinate for a few hours, and loose interest.

I would argue that a + thread devoted to opposing something is itself an "interesting direction to go". But basically any + thread is based on the premise that there is discussion to be had, which some people want to have, and which is within the constraints of what the site allows, that the +...

I like the "modern" approach, but I wish they had different names than the abilities. Having them be the same is one of those things that seemed beginner friendly to some WotC designer's gut sense of what makes things accessible, but actually just causes endless confusion at table and requires...

It's a literal stopping of time, so they should perceive nothing. Whatever happens during the time stop that leaves any evidence is instantaneously experienced by them when the spell ends. Perhaps the actions of the caster caused some weird artifacts in light and sound waves, but otherwise there...

I fine with official D&D being the brand based around friendly, non-controversial, PG-13 acts of ultraviolence. It's the big tent brand, the gateway brand, and it's best it strive to be appropriate to the broadest set of sensibilities and we live in an era of censorship-oriented culture. I am...