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That's a fair characterization of what I'm saying. I don't want the weapon mastery rules thrown out or rebuilt from scratch. I just wish they were rearranged a bit to make their presentation more consistent with other rules that do similar things.

I would rather see every weapon have something inherent to the weapon that makes it unique. If I have to acquire a class feature to unlock a supposed weapon property, it's not a property of the weapon. It's a property of the class feature. Moving the text of the class feature to a footnote on...

I have to agree with the OP and several other folks in this thread. Just make "Weapon Mastery" a self-contained class feature whose text says you get to do X with every weapon that falls into category Y. Like the Crossbow Expert feat, which works just fine without having to assign a "crossbow...

Speaking of streaming: I'm convinced streaming media was better when Netflix was effectively a monopoly. Once we got competing platforms, the streaming experience turned into "Cable + DVR" v. 2.0. Unpopular opinion?

I agree it's not useful to say, "I'm running in the FR," since the setting covers so much ground. It's probably better to say, "I'm running in the FR, using sources X, Y, and Z." Information in those sources is established fact and everything else as hearsay. That lets you use convenient bits of...

The only setting canon that matters is the setting canon in place immediately before the PCs start interacting with the world. After that, the only canon that matters is the canon established by the PCs. I would change the identity of the important world-shaking NPC in the PC canon timeline. I...

For fantasy D&D, my top pick would probably be the Forgotten Realms, assuming: 1) the 3e Campaign Setting book is a reasonably-accurate but out-of-date description of the world; 2) earlier Realms products are in-character historical documents with unreliable narrators; and 3) later Realms...

If all my other expenses were covered? I'd probably spend $4500 on art for a vanity-published RPG product and $500 promoting said beautifully-illustrated RPG product.

Unpopular opinion: You're better off having not finished The Name of the Wind. It gets progressively worse.

Probably my all-time favorite short story. (Not a hot take. It won a well-deserved Hugo Award back on 2004.)

Pun intended?

Also, orcs were "goblin kin" in the Forgotten Realms setting at least as late as 2012.

There are people in this thread arguing that changing a few words in a game rulebook constitutes an Orwellian erasure of history. I can only imagine what they would say about expunging entire genealogical records.

Why is the default assumption that orcs are being cast in the role of indigenous peoples and humans are colonizers? That seems to be relying on flawed tropes from outdated adventure modules. I would think indigenous Humanoids should be cast in the role of indigenous peoples and colonizing...

Unicorns are friends of the asexual community and believe women who choose not to engage in sexuality should be lauded for being true to themselves, not shamed for refusing to bow to societal norms?

Has anyone with more industry knowledge than myself compiled a list of publishers that are using other creators' Open Content without contributing any of their own? (Paizo's not guilty of this, but some other publishers mentioned in this thread might be.) I would love to have that information so...

Wow. Just wow. Does that book draw upon any OGL content other than the 5e SRD? If it's just building on the 5e SRD and nothing else, I guess it's not all that bad. WotC released the 5e SRD under a non-share-alike Creative Commons license earlier this year, so anyone can use it to create closed...

This site's profanity guidelines don't allow me to properly express how much I dislike index entries that say "See X" but don't list a page number. Especially when "X" is just an entry with one page number. Seriously, it takes less ink to just print the page number instead of "See X," so why are...

When I'm running a game, I only use bits and pieces of canon provided in published sources. The game I'm running has its own internal canon only tangentially related to the works that inspired it. I often borrow maps and rough descriptions of locations on those maps, for example, but I might...

When you put it that way, I think we're agreement. Each time a setting gets reintroduced for a new audience (or new edition, as the case may be), the setting is going to be framed differently than it was before.