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I'm going to go with: $59,597,987.99 (Source: Take the opening weekend of "Guardians of the Galaxy" per BoxOfficeMojo, chop it in half because it's not in the MCU, then adjust for inflation since 2014.)

That's purely an invention of Rankin-Bass. Tolkien laid out the present-day state of hobbits in the prologue to LotR ("Concerning Hobbits"). Their numbers have dwindled; they are "estranged" from humans and avoid us with dismay. Their height today rarely exceeds three feet, and by their own...

If you turn them into an eye of fear and flame, they get stun immunity and a +4 Intelligence save, so they can probably shake off the effect before turning back.

Correct. Since a nat 20 does not auto-succeed on a save in 5E, this is effectively a perma-stun for any creature with -2 or worse, unless the target gets their save bonus increased (e.g., by resistance) or receives a spell or effect that removes the stunned condition. By my reading, the stun...

Yeah, this is about where I am. I was very happy with most of what I saw in the first couple packets. Then the OGL business had me on the verge of walking away from D&D entirely. It'll take a while to regain my enthusiasm after that. It doesn't help that arcane casters are and have always been...

Sketchy, I'd think. Much like with the OGL kerfuffle, even if you'd probably win, it won't be a slam dunk where the judge just tosses the suit. It'll be a legal battle most creators couldn't begin to afford. The fan content policy seems like the best chance IMO. Wizards could of course shut you...

That... is a brilliant idea. I've wondered for a long time how one could possibly do justice to the Silmarillion on screen; a sequence of connected but stand-alone movies would be perfect. But it'd be pretty hard to convince the studio not to bollix it up. Most of the stories in the...

I would buy this in a heartbeat.

It's not what you asked for, though, is it? That's not an aberration; it's obviously an undead. It's also underpowered for a CR 7. Mechanically, it's serviceable but not particularly interesting -- all its abilities are standard stuff. The description and history are coherent, but generic and...

IMO, that's why donations to an appropriate charity or cause are the right solution. The material remains available. (I think there is value in being able to see what was done in the past. Also, I would rather not encourage the "'anti-capitalist' is hate speech" company to yank things they deem...

As written: No, I would not. I would, however, consider signing a petition asking Hasbro to improve its "content flags," which right now (AFAIK) consist of a blanket note on all old-edition material. That note should remain, but there could be an additional designation for specific works --...

If I were tasked with using a large language model to build an AI DM, this would be my approach: 1. Create a database which can hold "facts about the game world." These would be in some standardized format (I think there are such formats for knowledge bases). The important thing is that each...

"Deeply unsettled" is the reaction of someone who anthropomorphizes the chatbot. Me, I about died laughing when I read that conversation. (Actual transcript here.) It showcases exactly why you shouldn't anthropomorphize the thing. What it is doing is essentially "yes-anding" itself into lunacy...

From what I've seen, grappling with the physical world is the hardest challenge facing AI -- not because AI is inherently bad at it, but because it's harder to generate the giant data sets required, and much harder to (rapidly, automatically, cheaply, safely) evaluate the AI's performance during...

It sure does want to include rhymes when you ask for poetry, doesn't it? I finally got it to mostly quit with this prompt: "Write a poem in blank verse about ice cream. Use iambic pentameter. Do not have lines that rhyme with each other." A few rhymes did creep in toward the end, but it was...

This is anthropomorphizing. A large language model is not "aggressively" anything. Nor is it dishonest -- it has no conception of truth and falsehood; it is incapable of honesty or dishonesty. It's true that it lacks humility, but in the way that a chair lacks humility. ChatGPT is merely a...

Not sure I would consider that the primary benefit of Mounted Combatant. To me, the main benefit is the ability to redirect attacks to yourself that would otherwise hit the mount. Mounts tend to be way more fragile than PCs.

There's nothing in the rules suggesting that bladesong can't be used mounted, and it seems like a cool concept to me. Likewise, I see no problem taking the lance for your free bladesinging proficiency. As you note, the lance is not marked two-handed, so it's legal by the rules, and the tradeoff...

The 3E ones are indeed far more complete. However, they have also been carefully scoured for references to product identity, and those references removed, in a way that was not done with the 5E SRD.

Any discernible relationship between sales and quality is a correlation. It seems like you're trying to say high sales do not guarantee high quality -- which is true, and supports your argument about Tyranny of Dragons. But you keep using the word "correlation" to mean "guarantee," and that's...