Search results

My own guesstimate is $85M domestic and $95M international, for about $180M total.

"Tier" is also a relatively easy-to-use alternative. It implies increased complexity as the numbers go up without trying to tie the language to a particular cosmological view of magic.

So, definition I.e immediately set of alarm bells for me, because it reminded me of a lot of ugly stuff that happened with respect to DRM in the late 90's and early 2000's. But then I see II.a and II.b use it expressly to circumvent those exact problems. So the definition is a reference, not...

And such species are closely related, extremely rare exceptions, not the norm. It's not "every single type of vaguely similar-looking organisms" (eg: dwarf, dragonborn, tabaxi, aarakocra, triton, etc). That's one of the fundamental points of the term "species". If you want more readily viable...

This does actually put a viable spin on the use of the term "species", and the invalidation of the half- races. If some cosmological magic is what makes it possible for, say, an elf and a human to have children, but that magic is doing only the bare minimum to make that possible (because the...

While my overall reasoning is far more detailed (and I don't want to try to recreate the full essay I posted about this before), a simple analogy is that it's like using the pronoun "it" to refer to a person.

And there have been arguments about all of those words because they don't mean the same thing. Certainly, I found "species" as a replacement to be disgusting and dehumanizing, but now that they've sort of settled on it, we're getting arguments that are predicated on the meaning of "species" that...

I very much want this. I made a yuki-onna character for a game a while back, and while it was fun, it was also a lot of work because there were no official guidelines on how to do something like that. Even beyond mixed races, a generalized, "This is how you go about creating a...

I don't know what Descent into Avernus does with vehicles. For handling those creatures, though, I'd say that the rules I put together should work the same for them, mostly. They wouldn't be set up to do anything directly combat related, but if they are significant player property, the...

I had to take some time to think this over. My first thought was to adopt a little of Level Up's mounted combat, which has refined things from O5E. An O5E mount can only Dash, Disengage, or Dodge, though it doesn't require any action on your part to allow that. A5E allows you to direct your...

But, uh, that's not what's being argued here. The fact of men being stronger than women (both in average and at the extreme) does not require that a game incorporate that. But the game not incorporating that does not mean that the original fact is false. There are certain assertions being made...

With the Evasion plus HP leveling, a level 5 pony (medium mount, so lowest HP) should be able to survive a fireball or three. It has 33 HP, and takes ~14 damage on a failed save, and none on a successful save. I figured that should be sufficient on the survivability front. It's probably...

OK, so for mounts... Mounts should primarily be treated as equipment. This means: Mounts should be available as built-in starting equipment for some backgrounds. I'd pick Folk Hero, Noble, Outlander, and Soldier. I'd limit this to the draft horse or pony/mastiff (for small characters). A...

To me, that's not reflecting reality. A story reflecting reality would be commenting on Ukraine, or Brexit, or Trump (or veiled references to such). Commenting on the human condition is something much more nebulous, less bound by time or events or reality. The Iliad and Odyssey, which you...

A lot of people are arguing from either a mechanical or social justice perspective. I would posit that these are, if not exactly wrong, missing a certain fundamental point. Namely, races are about character and story. Personally, I don't like nitpicky character building in my D&D. I don't mind...

Saying the word "half" is an insult is like saying the word "gamer" is an insult. Sure, if someone comes up and calls you a "gamer", dripping with condescension and disdain, that's most definitely an insult, but that doesn't make the term itself an insult, nor does it require that every person...

I'd say that Flex is a pretty nice mastery ability. It allows you to get the full damage of a weapon like a longsword even if using sword+shield. You can also combine it with the Dueling fighting style to get a base average damage of 7.5 (rather than the 6.5 you mentioned in a later post, which...

Your calculations aren't correct, here. Rerolling 1s and 2s does not remove 1s and 2s from the potential result. Whatever you roll the second time around, you keep. Here's a function that does that, and shows the results for the different weapon die sizes: link It remains roughly +1 to the...

For the countries with data, that only applies to Slovakia, and it only made $138,298, so that's not a major factor in this update. The top 5 non-US markets (with gross sales over $2 million each: China, UK, Mexico, Australia, and Germany) add up to $18,686,210, which is almost exactly half of...

The static graphics look nice. The movement, with the wobbling minis when they attack, looked goofy. The UI looked very much like the "sell it to the CEO" demo level, where it looks really nice for the one thing you're running in this particular demo, but is going to be an absolute pain to get...