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Not exactly. 3rd Level spells are definitely transformational in a way that makes it feel like the appropriate point for martials to get their second attack, but even that is just the top ten or so 3rd level spells. Wish is transformational for the classes that get it or can get it, in opening...

Yeah, I don't think the "every season is basically one long episode" format of most modern trek has really served Star Trek well, for a variety of reasons. One of them is simply that even a pretty solid Star Trek story doesn't generally merit being made into a spawling 8 hour epic. Another is...

I've read it posited that it's a bot intended for 外資系企業の転職・求人エージェント｜エンワールド・ジャパン - よくあるご質問 (enworld.com), a Japanese jobs site, probably just one on a long list of sites on its itinerary of spamming. Perhaps they didn't even put in the wrong address, and it just spams every major top-level domain...

As someone who was just sitting down to write up a necromancy subclass for the Witch class in my 5e clone game, I will take that into mind.

This version of the spell lets anyone ask the questions not just the spellcaster, which is how we generally preferred to play it at most tables I've seen the spell used at. Between that an Owlbear druids I feel like the movie is playing a slightly better version of the game than the one we've...

To me with a triple vote the answers are overwhelmingly 1, 2, and 9. Nothing else even comes close, in my book. But I would struggle to pick which one of those three sucks the most. I think 9 is a far bigger, more incoherent mess than it's prequel competitors in suckage. They chased a MacGuffin...

I think "all d6s means accessibility" is a misconception of game designers desperate to rope non-gamer friends and family into helping to playtest. The actual market for a ttrpg is overwhelmingly the people who already own some polyhedral dice, and planning on your mainstream expansion after you...

Obviously it's because the episode features Admiral Picard. Having a competent and non-evil admiral is such a breach of Star Trek protocol that they need an awful captain to bring order to the franchise.

As I recall the DVD for Gamers 2 has a closed captioning option that shows all the supposed checks, spells, abilities, rolls, etc. Clearly any official D&D movie should do the same.

To me the lesson is that for a typical ttrpg centered around loot and levels, it's perhaps best to gear the characters (either through plot or character backgrounds) towards having goals that actually require loot and levels to achieve, if you need their character motivations to actually make...

Episode one seems purposely formatted around the idea that this is a soft reboot, inviting in people like you who didn't see seasons 1 or 2. Presumably that is intentional and will carry throughout the season. Obviously you won't appreciate scenes with characters from the first two seasons in...

There was a problem with the new crew in the context of a "Picard" show. They were all Poochies in a show that refused to get to the fireworks factory. But more seriously, the problem with the new characters is that they felt like interlopers in a TNG derived show. Next Gen was formated as a...

Just saw episode 1, and one episode in the season lives up to the promise of its trailers. Picard and Riker bantering their way around the galaxy is way more fun, and a better showcase for the title character, than Picard vaguely and distantly leading a bunch of randos like seasons 1 and 2, even...

While the Penny Arcade rendition of Jim Darkmagic as Mouseguard character was pretty cute, I'm afraid having senior creative people from WotC running their own game for the ridiculous and irreverent adventures of Acq. Inc has always been a key part of the charm for me. Which is not to say that...

The weird revelation of Penny Arcade's response to the whole OGL debacle is that that is the way it has (other than an official book release) always been. I think the difference is that, given how much more controversial WotC has become, they now feel the need to emphasize that they are not...

I grew to like most of the crossover characters well enough, though I sometimes felt like they were introduced with an undue presumption that I watched their shows and was already familiar with them. To me the real problem is it slowly went from a core group of 3 or 4 and some rotating guests...

The quintessential 5e adventure is Lost Mines of Phandelver. I can't say there is anything exactly special about it. It's main virtue is that it is not so overwritten with bloat as the big book adventures WotC makes these days, sticking to something simple and loose that even a first time DM can...

I just read: "What D&D Religion Is Your Favorite, And Why?" as: "What Religion is Your Favorite, And Why?" And I've got to say I was a little excited to see what crazy stuff would be said in the version I imagined before the thread was closed.

It seems a bit poorly written. I think what they wanted was "when you hit with a weapon attack or spell attack" rather than "when you hit with an attack or spell", because generally the word "hit" is reserved for attacks in 5e. But it seems like the intent is clearly to do the damage once...

The one and only real campaign I've ever tried to run in my homebrew setting had two sessions before the pandemic arrived. I later tried to use a very different part of the same setting for a "one shot" I put together for mostly non-D&D-playing friends, and that also proved ill-fated.