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Should it not, then, be a top priority to fix this issue at a design level, since doing so at the GM's end is a Herculean task? Should it not be a top priority to fix something so important and widespread and aggressively in-your-face? Indeed, should it not be a top priority for the simple...

Agreed. And while I certainly recognize that there's a major element of taste in that for some things, I think the major dividing line for a lot of people will be whether or not something violates their visual intuition of whether things work or don't. We see things that can't fly outside of...

I don't think it's anywhere near that ambitious. Remember that the skill challenge and the combat have completely different goals. The skill challenge's goal is merely to survive and/or escape. It's the Fellowship running from the Balrog. Is that incompatible with Merry later getting the first...

And yet it is--very much--part of the expected experience for D&D-alike games that one grows so great in power that things which were previously a major threat become so trivial, you swat them away like flies. For goodness' sake, BECMI went there--but did so with ridiculous unreachable levels...

Certainly not, since the claim isn't true. It's often repeated though. Keep in mind, Lanefan is of the opinion that a creature cannot ever have more than one, singular, statblock. Unless it's a PC, then it can have a statblock that changes over time as a result of context. I mean, I would say...

Though, as noted, these things still have strokes based on the leading-edge vortex. (Didn't see this message earlier, otherwise I'd have added it to the previous.) That's really the issue here. The leading-edge vortices face the wrong way for these wings, and these wings aren't the right shape...

No, but having your limbs and tail pointing the normal way would. It's like...imagine someone built a car, with all of the seating, windshield, mirrors, safety features, etc., all pointing one direction....and then the engine, steering/driving tires, and brakes pointing in the opposite...

It's the age-old problem of sieges. If you have the resources inside--or can get them through unblocked routes, such as a siege only by land when the defenders have ports--then the attackers have to actually breach the defenses, which is often a Herculean and unenviable task. The attackers then...

We see objects without wings flying all the time. Bullets. Missiles. Etc. And the idea that a creature can simply move by willing itself to move, while not real, doesn't actually conflict with any basic intuitions of how things physically function. Wings on backwards directly contradicts...

6th: eyebite (have used myself, quite effective), Tasha's bubbling cauldron (for more support benefits) 7th: finger of death of course, but also crown of stars and power word pain 8th: maddening darkness, dominate monster (does 8 hours really make that much difference?), or befuddlement if you...

I just...do? It's completely obvious to me which picture came from 3e and which came from 4e. The details, the style, just make it completely obvious. It's like asking how one can tell the difference between a pencil sketch and a painting. I can tell because pencil lines are different from...

Are you asking which edition? I can't tell the difference between 2e and 1e. So I've no idea. Best guess is 2e first, 1e second? The other two are trivial; the third image is 4e, the fourth image is 3e. But my point was that if you took an image of a blue dragon and made a second version where...

Whereas for me, you're basically a flexible Paladin, with full spellcasting. Especially since I played using the packet 7 rules, so they hadn't added the ridiculous strength requirement to heavy weapons yet. A greatsword of light dealing 3d6+5 radiant damage per hit with 2x attacks, plus the...

I find there are subtle differences in how 3e-style art vs 4e-style art presents them. 3e went very very heavily for a "dungeon punk" style married to a "Renaissance sketch" style for the baseline art--and, as a result, all subsequent art hewed extremely closely to that "more like a sketch than...

Having played a Celestial Bladelock up to like...I think it was level 12? You can do more than one, but Blade is the most hungry of the lot, so it eats up a lot of space. You can basically get one other thing alongside Blade: I went for "Tome + utility stuff". You could easily have done Chain...

@Corinnguard Going through dragons by group, in no particular order Gold: I've never liked the fish wings, so I've always had some kind of problem with them. I can't find it now, but there's a picture out there that I absolutely love, which is (for me) the perfect fusion of Eastern and...

Okay. If someone sees a distinction and uses that to explain their position....and then I say "okay, those things are the same", the onus is on them to actually explain why there is a difference, even if it isn't that important to me. Not even going to touch the meaningfulness thing. I should...

I'd have to go through and examine each across the eras. 5e isn't totally devoid of interest, to be clear, I just don't like several of the more obvious design choices. Gold I especially dislike, but black and silver are also just...bleh. Silver in particular looks like someone crashed a bus...

What is "sensitivity to details like the 'obviousness'"? Because to me that sounds like an accurate description of taste, both literal tongue-taste and figurative taste. And yes, I do struggle to see how actions which cause the same sorts of effects meaningfully differ simply because the...

I'll admit, for me, "because dragon" can get you pretty damn far. But it doesn't get this far. Which sucks, because I'd love to be like "wow I really like this design!" It's not like the artist who made it is unskillful. I just think it's...a bad choice. It's like having an orange-mint...