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Rising up in armed rebellion against oppression is "evil" now?

Veilguard didn't respect it's own premise, the naughty word you talking about? The previous entry in the series showed us that the global underclass of elves were going to rise up against their oppressors under the leadership of their trickster god. In veilguard, not a single elf is depicted as...

If she isn't, I'll quickly whip up some Earthsea fanfic and that'll get her spinnin'

Really? I can't count the number of times I've seen Spidey run out of web fluid or Superman needing to fly closer to the sun to recharge his powers. Even Batman or Tony Stark sometimes lose the aid of their gadgets and have to rely on their fists. You could even say the Hulk's anger is a...

We are technically playing the 8th iteration of advanced dungeons and dragons. They had a simpler line, BECMI, and abandoned it decades ago.

The default gameplay assumption for 5e D&D is so tonally similar to superheroic fantasy that a marvel or DC licensed game just seems simple.

I rarely find myself joining campaigns that start above level 1, let alone level 3, so it often seems braggadocious to have a character who claims to have been on prior adventurers when they can't even swing a sword twice in six seconds.

One thing I've always wanted to see in fantasy is terraforming and weather control as a part of warfare. For a given value of "fantasy", this is basically what the plagues of Egypt were in the old testament. So if you want to fight a medieval war in winter, in a fantasy world, the answer is...

That's the thing about this subclass that baffles me the most. It's got such a specific fantasy archetype that it's evoking but I don't understand where this archetype comes from. It's almost as if someone took a cleric class from their homebrew world and just dumped it in a D&D book. Whenever...

Moose cavalry

Sounds like we need a Lady of Pain to clean up this Faction War

Might as well let people play around with what they finished.

At least here in America though, those activities have declined rapidly over the last half-century. Someone wrote a whole book on it 25 years ago and the problem's been getting worse.

I think what would make sense, ironically going back to the days of OD&D with its "alignment" languages, is to have "planar language families"; we already have that with Primordial, where the various elemental languages are mutually intelligible to anyone who speaks Primordial. What I'd do is...

I recall a table in 4e that said which languages were written in which scripts; I think we could easily make languages a bit more fun if we arranged them in language families and also by which script they're written in. Maybe if you speak a related language and a language in the same script, you...

If Duchamp scribbling a mustache on the Mona Lisa is art (and it is), then you can't really blame AI for breaking the aura of art.