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For some reason, they go out of their way to remove all cultural info from species (except for orcs), then immediately insert a bunch of cultural info into the language rules. The rarity of a language is entirely dependent upon one's culture. (Incidentally, the 2014 PHB claims Common originated...

I can't speak to the main complaints. My complaint about Bastions was something which didn't seem to bother too many other posters, probably because it was a problem I had with the narrative, not the mechanics: The Bastion system uses game mechanics which, to me, seem disassociated from the...

Apparently you can, if your government is a council of archmages lead by a divination specialist. The Halruaan Elders saw the Spellplague in advance and planned for it by transporting their entire kingdom to another, safer plane of existence. That's Time-Lord-level awesomeness, which is why my...

Halruaa. When the Spellplague destroyed half the multiverse and plunged all of Toril into a hundred-year dark age, Halruaa said, "No thanks. We'll just ride this out in our safe space. See you again next edition."

Your post closely resembles the feedback I gave on weapon masteries during the playtest. If the designers read it, they clearly weren't moved.

No design notes today, just a progress report. I’m currently making headway on the two new setting guide chapters I’m adding to my trail guide. (I’ve changed the working title of the Semphar chapter to “The Great Silk Road,” since the Forgotten Realms highway called the Silk Road extends well...

OpenAI: "We're totally allowed to copy and use any data we can view anywhere. That's not a violation of anyone's rights." Also OpenAI: "How dare you and your lawyer try to copy any of the data you can view on our computers! That's a violation of our corporate rights!"

Given what I know of Musk and pals, I think the title should be "Cads Against Humanity."

The current (2014) chase rules actually do have clear-cut rules for escaping during a chase. They aren't good rules for escaping, but they are clearly stated. From the 2014 DMG: "If neither side gives up the chase, the quarry makes a Dexterity (Stealth) check at the end of each round, after...

The 2014 PHB already cooks my meal for me, so I guess I'm good. No need for the new rules.

If I have to tell my players to extrapolate rules that are implied but not stated, then the 2024 PHB isn't doing a good job introducing players to the sort of game I want to play. Don't get me wrong, the 2024 PHB looks like it will do a very good job teaching new players how to use the 2024...

Player: "Can you offer an additional class based on the 4e warlord? Here are my ideas..." DM: "Sure" None of which means the 2024 PHB supports a warlord class. The fact that we need the DMG to even know how the designers intended custom backgrounds work in the revised rules is one of my...

It doesn't say that at all. I'm looking at it right now. The 2024 PHB says, "You can choose any of the backgrounds detailed in chapter 4, and your DM might offer additional backgrounds as options." On page 177, it adds, in reference to a background's non-rules text, "Alter the details of this...

What Year Is It? If you’re planning on writing a Forgotten Realms supplement, time is your enemy. Wizards of the Coast is constantly releasing new Forgotten Realms products, and quite a few of them advance the setting’s timeline. No matter what you write in your supplement, there’s a good...

Plots and Rumors One of the main goals of the Forgotten Realms Trail Guide is to compile and curate setting lore from older sources, especially setting lore which isn’t likely to appear in upcoming releases from Wizards of the Coast. My objective is to present that information in a new format...

The Sidekick rules from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything are another possible option. Those should be compatible with the 2024 rules. They would require some buy-in from the DM and the other players, though, possibly including sidekicks for the other PCs.

Well, now I want a sequel to Aliens in which weather conditions produce a swarm of winged Xenomorph queens which descend upon civilization like locusts. (For thematic reasons, I'm assuming the necessary weather conditions are "perpetually dark and gloomy.")

You explained my point much better than I did. David is trying to claim credit for creating a life form someone else created for him. He's like someone taking an existing painting, running it through a couple filters, and claiming he's "created" a new painting. Although I suppose one could...

David's lying about creating the Xenomorphs. Alien Vs. Predator establishes that human-incubated Xenomorphs predate David by thousands of years. All David did was fiddle around with stolen alien tech until he discovered what it could do, but he wants to believe that's an act of creation. That...

My impression was that the weaponized black goo creates an entire family of parasitic organisms. David's experiments produced different parasites in that family until he rediscovered the Xenomorph species. Presumably, the Engineers had already independently discovered Xenomorphs by experimenting...