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I mean, yeah, I get that. It was just some of the details in the movie that threw me, but overall ... yeah, totally.

I'm not worried about living in a simulation. I am, however, worried that the future we seem to be heading toward isn't one I want to live in. If we're lucky, we'll get a WALL-E style future, where we've trashed our planet but those of us who've survived don't need to work because we've got...

Agreed. While a lot of people point to Tasha's as the start of the power creep, I maintain it is a more coherent "everything" book than Xanathar's was.

It's Wednesday here in New Zealand. I'm not sure if we'll be getting Part 2 tonight or tomorrow. (I can't remember if we got Part 1 on Wednesday for us or if we had to wait till Thursday.) Either way, I am looking forward to the next four episodes!

You know how I feel about the Oath of Conquest! I won't deny it's a strong subclass mechanically. I will point out, however, that Xanathar's also gave us the Oath of Redemption, which is absolute pants.

Questionable content aside, I really liked the Mordenkainen's and Volo's format. Xanathar's, however, was such a mixed bag for me. It just felt like a miscellaneous mishmash of good, bad, and meh. I really wouldn't call it a high point. For me, I think 5e's high point has actually been more...

I put it at a 5. They made some things better but also made some things worse and didn’t change some things that really needed it. I’m more excited about @mearls 5e-lite Odyssey game. EDIT: Another reason for my middling rating is that I've been bouncing pretty hard off the new art direction...

OK. Yeah, see I’m not familiar with any of the original versions of the Infinite Staircase adventures, so I have no idea what’s been changed.

What happened to the dinosaurs? They shrank.

I have been experimenting with a bastion for my Eberron group. It’s a floating tower on the side of Sharn overlooking the river. Each PC has their own floor. It’s still early days, though, and I am waiting to see what the new bastion options in the delayed Eberron book are. Don’t know anything...

Aha. I wondered if something had been left out. I’d heard a lot of praise for this adventure over the years and thought it was a bit weird to call it the lost “city” when it takes place entirely in a single pyramid!

I didn’t discover the existence of such games until I was a bit older in the early 90s. I remember getting a war game that was about re-enacting the battle of Gettysburg. I also got a game that was about B-17s going on bombing runs but it was far too complicated for me, and I never played it.

I mean, I’m OK with it if it’s like Vecna or Tasha or even just unnamed Archmage A, but when even a so-called Apprentice Mage gets a cantrip that PCs can’t get? No thanks. And not only that but regular mages get multiple attacks with their super versatile cantrip as well as extra damage? No PC...

Nope! Guess it just wasn't ever on my family's radar when I was growing up. We played things like Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Stratego, Uno, Battleship, Parcheesi, Clue, Life, card games, etc. Stuff like that.

I agree for the most part. Where it breaks down for me is the new spellcaster design. Not giving them spell slots is one thing, but the overly versatile Arcane Blasts that they all get, that are both melee and ranged attacks, which they can fire off multiple times in a round … sure it gives them...

OK. Thanks. I worry this is a potential bottleneck. If the players can’t figure out the clue (“Lay your offerings of food and drink for the gods in the blazing fire before Amun Sa. That which the gods accept will vanish within the flame.”), then they can’t progress through the rest of the...

I am intending to run Pharaoh next, and I have some questions. I’ve never run it before. Am I correct in thinking that the only legit way to get from the ground floor to the next level up is through the flame portal? There is the river connection but the text doesn’t say anything about PCs...

IIRC when I ran it, I set it in the Pirate Isles off the Tethyr coast. (The PCs stopped there on their way back from Chult post-ToA.) For Eberron, I’d probably set it in the Lhazaar Principalities or maybe somewhere in the islands between Khorvaire and Xen’drik. Or maybe even like a decaying...

Yes! That one recycles the original art from Dungeon, though, doesn’t it? Or did they commission new art? I can’t remember. (That was a fun adventure at least - I’ve both played through it and run it. I might run it again for my Eberron game. Plenty of places where the Styes would fit in!)

Indeed. I maintain that Lincoln’s assassination was one of the greatest tragedies in US history. If he’d survived, I think things might have turned for the better. Instead, we got Johnson punishing the southern states via military occupation and northern grifters (the so-called carpet baggers)...