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In neither of those cases, would they be found False. False is for the hypocrites, for those who profess one faith, while living in contravention of it. Someone who renounced their faith in a specific deity before death, but before formally committing to a new deity, would be treated the same...

The answer to that is: it's Ravenloft. It's the Demiplane of Dread, it's a planar realm where a group of beings, that are collectively of Overpower strength, create individual domains specifically to torment the Dark Lord of the domain, and everything else is a tool to that end. Nobody really...

One of the unrealistic things about the Cataclysm was exactly what you said, that the Kingpriest was supposed to be a pinnacle of Lawful Good. . .but when he kept denying repeated visions, even to the point that the Avatar of Paladine appears to him personally to warn him just how wrong he is...

I wouldn't say it's for "the greater good", but it's nowhere NEAR as unreasonable as some people make it out to be. There are a lot of misconceptions about the Faithless in Kelemvor's realm. You only end up as one of the Faithless if you actively deny all the Gods during your life. Doing...

Yeah, one thing I didn't like about how WotC treated 3.5 was the zillion variants of action types they added and kept adding (swift actions, for example). I love how granular the character creation is, how immensely customizable characters are with a zillion different feats and classes and...

I'll pretty much agree with all this. I think they definitely rushed 3.5 out way early. 3.5 seemed like two things smushed together: 1. Bugfixes to fix problems that emerged when many people were playing it in a way that was very unlike how it was playtested or how 2e was played. . .a...

It's been like that for almost 20 years now, thanks to the d20 system. Once 3rd edition came out, and only a month after the release of the 3e Monster Manual we had the first d20 Star Wars RPG. The release of d20 Modern in fall of 2002 really made it wide open (plus the countless third party...

Paladins are just as tied to Charlemagne and the court of the 8th century Carolingian Empire, but we've accepted that they've become a genericized archetype of a holy warrior over time. The D&D version of Wizard is firmly borrowed from Vance's Dying Earth novels, but we have accepted it as a...

You're presuming WotC's concerns have merit. I could certainly see why established authors would reject demands for a focus-group-driven, design-by-lawyers demands to create a sanitized, politically correct Dragonlance where checking the boxes for "inclusivity' and "diversity" is more...

So, WotC decided they want to completely rewrite Dragonlance lore, because somehow stereotypes of non-human fantasy races is supposed to have anything to do with real world. Saying all "X" people in the real world, among real humans, are "Y", is bad. We know that to be untrue. The Kender...

I ran a year long campaign about 20 years ago that was set roughly during the 3rd crusade. I used the "green book" AD&D Historic Reference series for it. I really, really wish they'd made an equivalent work for 3e, or even later editions. Getting D&D away from pseudo-historic gaming was a...

Our campaigns are typically a mix of Forgotten Realms and Planescape. Faerun is treated as the default, baseline adventuring territory. . .but characters from Zakhara or Kara Tur, or even Maztica (but that doesn't come up much ) are considered quite normal, and in the mid-to-high levels the...

If what they're alleging is true though, about contractual requirements for notifications, for a cure period (a chance to remedy a failure to meet the terms of the contract), and such, that doesn't make WotC look good at all. Contract disputes tend to get settled out of court because this kind...

So, Weis & Hickman were writing new Dragonlance novels. . .and WotC arbitrarily and unilaterally cancelled the contract because they were afraid of a PR backlash if they weren't sufficiently politically correct? Instead of actually providing any editorial feedback, or trying to work with them...

I don't count OD&D as a main edition of D&D. I was talking about the core D&D design lineage from 1st edition AD&D to 5e, intentionally not counting BD&D or OD&D, as side-projects or precursors to the main design lineage.

Well, despite WotC's marketing hype, the standard is, that if it's in the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, or Monster Manual, then it's core. Saying "Everything is Core" ignores the whole point of what "core" rules are. It really all comes down to 4e being driven more by marketing...

Well, by normal D&D logic, if it's not in the Player's Handbook, it's not in the core rules, which means that the game presumes that most games won't be using it and most players won't have it and that most settings won't be supporting it. People didn't assume the Duskblade, Dragon Shaman...

Need? No. There have been versions and editions of D&D without them. There have been settings where the bard as we know it doesn't exist. It isn't needed. There's more to D&D than what is needed though. It is a part of making a main edition of D&D complete enough to encompass the...

The worst critical failure for a psionic power, that I can remember, was for Disintegrate. Critical failure? Instead of disintegrating something else, it targets you, save or die. I remember that because of that, my multiclassed Wizard/Psionicist in a 2e game researched a "Protection from...

Grumbar, Kossuth, Akadi and Ishtishia aren't part of Dark Sun lore to begin with. The elemental clerics of Dark Sun don't venerate the Elemental Gods (or they didn't in the DS materials I'm familiar with), they draw their power from the elements generally, not in the name of those deities. The...