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I wouldn't link it to the mental stats of the PC. Give the ship the stats, so that no matter the pilot it is the same. You can have a rogue modron jump on the helm and argue esoteric law to get you where you are going or have Night Hag pilot it using convoluted contracts. The navigator is like a...

I don't know. Maybe I am jaded, but the claims about Giantlands being revolutionary and first of its kind are marketing dress. It doesn't affect me. Dismissing other people's work is disappointing, but is just so much squid ink. No one is going to back a Kickstarter that is labeled 'an iterative...

I always loved that travel in the astral, in prior editions, was powered by thought. Having 'navigators' who only think of the destination, consulting planar charts to imagine paths around the cosmic debris, linked to the planejammer like a symbiote, sounds cool to me. Of course, having ships...

There is a strong bias that necromancy is evil based on its connection to the Negative Energy Plane in previous editions. This is no longer the case in the current edition. (Future-proofed for future necro) I like seeing necro threads. It is like a small hit of nostalgia. Sometimes, especially...

Takes out a venerable tinfoil chapeau The thing is they aren't even taking advantage of outrage capitalism. I guess they could see if revenue at the Hobby Museum is up, but why not test it with a "tru olde skool roleplaying without the politics we don't like" module? All this bad publicity is...

Will his character possess a 'boomstick'? Or a chainsaw hand?

It also brings other power groups into the Tithe. The Trade Houses have to transport any trade between the City-States and could supply slaves for favors/goods from Sorcerer Kings. It creates a much more clandestine war between the City-States, instead of massive sieges. No one wants to be...

Dark Sun playtest you say? Interesting...

Obviously, he is playing a Motion-captured Illithid captain on a Nautiloid. Speljammer confirmed!

I can go back to not caring about Ernie Gygax again? Since he has decided to auto-mute himself? The whole TSR 3.x fiasco seems like a company that had no business sense looking for someone to shift blame for not being able to release product. 'We would have released Giantlands with deluxe...

The problem is people don't want a gish. They want a fighter/mage that is comparable to their single-class fellows. It can't be as good as a wizard and a fighter at the same time. So we need to find the gestalt a bit better than Eldritch Knight (too fighter-y) or Bladesinger (too wizardy). I was...

Essentially Blue Age halflings were some kind of non-arcane bioartificers or genetic scientists. Psionics probably formed as a mutant allele in the Blue Age and became dominant in the Green Age.

I imagine being an Elminster or Volo-like narrator might not be out of the question. Perhaps he is cast as Dungeon Master?!

I was throwing out the Way of ___ stuff for psychometabolism in particular because, while descriptive, it is just ugly. I agree that the Way of Blank sounds very plain and made me think Monk more than Wizard.

Let's stop using 'skin walker'. It has connotations that are inappropriate to your point and taboo to certain first nations. Shapeshifter is part of psychometabolism, but it is a much more precise technique. Autotransmutation sounds terrible but closer to the meaning. Maybe we continue with the...

Thri-Kreen are core to Dark Sun. They are the inheritor species of the Burnt World of Athas. They need to be a PC lineage. Arcane should have no access to healing. The problems for Preservers are two-fold, they are lumped in with Defilers because they are both casters and they are weaker than...

Dark Sun is about scrabbling the last bits of hope together in a wrecked world. It is difficult to survive, but that survival has to mean something. The overthrow of Kalak is a huge victory for hope, but it opens a whole plethora of cans of worms. Having several groups or organizations in the...

I had a long post about Ernie's inability to learn from the past, other peoples, and his own, despite a lifetime involved in publishing and ttrpgs. His lack of business acumen and surprise at taxes and fees should give any creator pause to joining any business venture with him. I don't know him...

Wow. I mean Ernie doesn't have the greatest track record with business decisions, but this is a whole new level of bizarre. Is Gail Gygax going to take TSR3: The Quickening to court before WotC or after? Drawmij knows nothing of this new entity and he is one of their marquee names, plus the...