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Gotta say, I do very much enjoy most of these new feats. Artificer Initiate and Gunner will never make my table (guns are an absolute no-no for my medieval fantasy and I despise the Artificer as I find it a strictly NPC class). Can't say I'm a fan of the "goldfish memory" mechanic in many of...

Pretty much sums up the experience we all go through at points in life. From youth to adulthood, from school to the professional world, etc. A common enough theme among many being idealism vs reality. Another being how one chooses to deal with those changes. I recall my first forays into the...

If a lawsuit was (or still is) a legitimate avenue to explore, airing one's grievance(s) publicly is not a particularly professional start. Frankly, once seeing Orion's response to WotC's apology, that more acutely showed me they were inexperienced and not particularly adept at managing their...

Yep, which is why I note later saying the 5e approach isn't perfect for pretty much that very reason. :)

Detested Healing Surges, though not it's basic concept...at least the basic concept I interpreted in that it was a way to depict a heroic resurgence in general stamina, endurance and, to quote the John Wick films, sheer bleeping will (much like one sees in most action movies where the...

Well the intent of the post was merely to be mildly humorous. ;) I don't see it as a particularly excellent cantrip myself (flat, no real options), but for that particular character I played, it was an enormously easy way to give herself advantage on her attack roll, and ergo, sneak attack...

Well, my elven Rogue (Scout) seems to think of True Strike as the best "attack" cantrip. You'd be hard pressed to find any of her enemies that would disagree (among the three still living ones anyway).

I voted for Eldritch Blast (EB), Ray of Frost (RoF) and Shocking Grasp (SG). Others I enjoy, these just cover how I value cantrips in 5e overall. I generally lean towards how flavourful I find it, and how it fits the typical class that will rely on it. Cantrips strike me as those things for...

That's a conversation I have with my players before any campaign starts. They know my style in that I like to have a pre-scripted plot, so we discuss it early so they can offer suggestions for their characters that might be useful to work into said plot. They don't get details of said plot...

It's a solution that works as best it can, though it might perhaps be better to place that context description at the top of the product description, rather than the bottom so it's the first thing read (and more readily spotted), as opposed to the bottom of that significant amount of text...

My perspective, for what it's worth, is he managed to show the scope of what D&D can be if you put some imagination and even just a little effort into it. Granted, 2e has a LOT of warts in terms of mechanical design, it's very rough around the edges and it can seem contradictory at times...but...

Because it's your game. Your game, your work. If you dislike a certain thing, and have no desire to utilize that certain thing based on whichever criteria matters to you...then it's up to you to make whatever changes suit your criteria if the overall product is otherwise more or less...

So you use the tactics you abhor? You dehumanize them and equate them to a troll? I'm sure your pain is genuine....but I suspect it is not for the reason(s) you claim. I suspect it is indeed painful to become that which you so poignantly rail against, especially when you don't even seem to be...

Happen to have links handy to said video series...or the post that linked to them? Wouldn't mind giving those a watch. *Edit: NM, found 'em. :)

Indeed, and I feel for them in that regard. That very much sucks (massive understatement). However, future employers outside of TRPGs will have access to view that post just as easily as the TRPG industry. Whether or not they will, or if it will have as significant an impact on those...

I actually introduced an organization of atheists/agnostics for my game (set in the Realms during 3.x). They certainly believed (or outright knew) the gods existed, as there were plenty of examples of their power, presence and influence upon Faerun (shortly after the Time of Troubles being the...

Yes. Several times.

Indeed. Consequences are real. Unduly harsh or outright unfair ones are to be avoided, certainly, but if one cannot accept the consequences of their actions, then I find I have little in the way of sympathy for the effects those consequences have upon a person. I can certainly empathize with...

No. I don't particularly care about WotC's politics or policies. I'm in it for the game. So long as I find the game fun to play, I'll buy the products I can use and pass/ignore the ones I can't (or simply hold no interest for me). I skipped 4e for precisely those reasons and came back to 5e...

Apparently not a thing.