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This is literally Tolkien-style half-elves. Elrond and his brother Elros were given a choice to be effectively "human" (thus mortal) or "elven" (thus bound to the world forever). Elrond chose the elf rules; Elros chose the human rules, becoming the first King of Numenor. Personally, I see this...

My immediate response is "Meh." I'm not super interested in an attempt to wring another trilogy out of the existing storyline, though I'm open to being convinced. I'd rather see something in a completely different time period, like the Old Republic setting and the war between the Jedi and the...

Out of these, I have used beholders, black puddings, and mariliths. And I will be introducing carrion crawlers and mind flayers in the campaign I started last night. Possibly displacer beasts at some point, too. (Probably not intellect devourers, though. Some of my players know enough about...

Normally I am one of the first to assume that the words "NFT" and "blockchain" signal "scam incoming," and I still think that's the most likely explanation... but I can see a real, useful, non-criminal application for blockchain technology here, which is somewhat mind-boggling. I didn't think...

I'm no expert on copyright law, but I'm damn sure copyright lasts longer than three years. There appears to be a three-year statute of limitations on copyright infringement, but that still puts WotC on the hook for every Monster Manual they've sold in the last three years. And then there's D&D...

Looks like the trademark registration is in the process of being canceled, as of February 23.

I don't agree with all of these ideas, but I love the goal of giving the classes more variety in their casting mechanics.

Going strictly by the book: In scenario 1), the effect is not a spell and therefore cannot be ended by dispel magic. (Although dispel magic can target "magical effects," it doesn't actually remove anything but spells.) In scenario 2), the spell is cast at its base level. For instance, if a...

Putting your stuff on Pinterest does NOT mean you are making it public domain. Read the terms of service. You grant rights to Pinterest and its users solely for the purpose of operating and using Pinterest. At no point are you offering up your work to be harvested for AI training or anything...

I very much doubt it. These models require mountains of data to train; public domain art is a miniscule set to work from. At least, it is if you're verifying ownership, instead of just harvesting anything on the Internet that some yahoo uploaded and tagged "public." If someone built a Stable...

That is the difference, yes. It's a big deal. Warlocks contribute solidly in a run-of-the-mill fight without using any spell slots at all; if you can hoard six top-level spells and drop them all on the end boss, that's a severe balance issue. It also (as you note) contributes to the 5-minute...

At this point, with some distance from the OGL fracas... I was pretty excited about the initial playtest packets. I really like what they're doing with feats, and many of the tweaks to the mechanics are long overdue. However, the class redesigns so far have left me cold*. There are...

The obvious solution is to give warlocks a recharge mechanic, usable (proficiency bonus) times per day, which takes one minute. This would be consistent with the general thrust of 1D&D in moving short-rest mechanics to prof/day, and it solves the whole problem very neatly and cleanly. That's...

Indeed. I find it very hard to believe the whole thing was just a straight-up money grab aimed at 3PPs. When the backlash started, royalties were the first thing Wizards jettisoned. But they hung onto the clauses that gave them control... and that let them shut out digital competitors. Looking...

No, the Occam's Razor solution is to scrap the entire class. Scrap all caster classes except one, call it the magic-user, and make it serve all concepts equally. Pick your casting stat, pick your spell list, and you're good to go. And I mean that in all seriousness. There is a very substantial...

That is true, but much of it could be fixed simply by turning the "essential picks" into core features. Agonizing Blast and eldritch blast, for example, should be hardwired into the class*. Hexblade and Thirsting Blade should be merged into Pact of the Blade. Et cetera. I will be very surprised...

The more challenging question is this: Suppose a rug smaller than 1 foot was destroyed entirely. If you cast mending on the room it was in, will the spell re-create the rug if the rug really tied the room together?

For real-life examples of high Int/low Wis, you need only look at Silicon Valley. I'd play the character as someone who is brilliant and efficient at solving the immediate problem, but is prone to overlook collateral damage and long-term consequences. If you're allowed to ignore the Wis...

If it is, they're going to get a C&D right soon. They're using WotC's trademarks liberally there.

It sure sounds that way. They're talking about "editions," plural (though I suppose that could refer to 3E and 3.5E). Of course, just because they are "reviewing" previous editions doesn't mean they will actually go into CC. They might review (for example) 1E, and conclude that it isn't...