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Of course it's not an auto-win - there's still a saving throw, there's still the concentration requirement, and it still only affects one creature leaving their allies/minions to try to break that concentration. It's just no longer so subject to an extended litigation about what's "reasonable"...

One of the things that amazed me so much was just how much leeway most of former TSR employees were going to give him. Granted, he enabled many of them to have something of a dream job and much of what we know now has come out in hindsight, but maybe we're all just living in a much more cynical...

I would argue that the "reasonable" requirement was always WAY too subject to arguments and shenanigans at the table. Player: "My PC wouldn't see that as a reasonable suggestion. The spell has to fail..." <Much gnashing of teeth of the DM ensues> DM: "The BBEG wouldn't see that as a...

Alternatively, he thought he'd always have at least an equal ownership stake in the company to the point where it didn't really matter if the company owned the IP or he did. They were synonymous. I'd still consider that at least somewhat duplicitous since it was became clear that he wasn't going...

Yeah, but it was pretty much all bootleg. That's just adding insult to injury.

Maybe? But there have also been plenty of cases of sports franchises moving without changing their names too. And now Jazz sticks out like a proud nail, a point of distinction even though Utah doesn't really give off anything like a jazz vibe.

It may be of secondary (or tertiary) importance to my players, but I still like to do calendars with holidays and so on. If nothing else, it gives me things to base some set dressing and narration on. Plus, I print the calendars out and jot notes on them for weather and tracking events and...

It's also true that being a "giant class humanoid" wasn't really doing a lot of lifting - other than giving rangers extra damage. It didn't, for example, define what a charm person could affect since that spell could affect some of the entries on the giant class humanoid list but not others. It...

Considering that the largest cohort playing is 20-24 even in the 2021 data, it may still be that it's the most active hot-bed. But I'd argue that anything catering to that age group wouldn't be all that different from the 15-19 year old cohort before it. Reading level isn't going to vary that...

Well, ascending AC is easier. The trouble was it came with additions to the system that complicated things in 3e. 1) It came with open-ended modifiers and values - there was no upper limit to AC, nor to stats. That bloated the values that needed to be added. 2) It also came with varying base...

Well, what kind of difficulty did you actually expect? The vampire spawn is 1800 XPs at CR 5. Against 3 5th level PCs, that's between a Low and a Moderate difficulty encounter because their XP budget on Low is 1500, Moderate 2250 . And since it nearly took out the ranger AND took all of the...

I’m not sure I’d even dignify the statement “the world is flat” with the status of being an opinion. It’s an attempt at stating a fact that is just wrong, and verifiably so.

Why would I want to make it impossible for their horses and pets, or their locally-hired guides, or henchmen, or apprentices, or the other non-adventurers traveling the same roads? The fact is their experiences and resources should offer some value in navigating their way through a blizzard, of...

Well, whether that's strictly true or not is going to depend a lot on your bias toward conservatism. Because the definition quoted by MonsterEnvy here: is very much a widespread and commonly agreed definition of the term. It is most definitely not simply preserving what works and is true...

I'm not interested in challenging PCs with normal weather in your average campaign town - if weather or environment based challenges are going to increase, it's because the PCs are choosing to go to areas that happen to be more challenging. It's not going to happen automatically just because...

I care. And the extent to which I care depends on how extreme or extensive the changes are. Most of the 2024 rule changes - fairly minor. But I do notice the potion miscibility table is back and I and my players don't like it - so out it goes. But that's just one piece of 2024, so that's fine...

No, why would they scale with level? That’s just nuts.

Yeah, I think Langdon's joke about being ADHD might be not too far from the mark for the character. I think that could easily look like someone hyped up on some kind of stimulant as he zooms about from one hyper-fixation case to another.

My wife and I started in on the series late so we had all but the very last episode available to us. We binged through it pretty hard the last few evenings because it was absolutely compelling television. A real treat.

Nope, Qui-Gon and Darth Maul. Obi-Wan isn't really interesting in any of the prequels. And from my perspective, the follow-up prequels lack even the bright spots of Phantom Menace.