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Yeah it's basically the trolley problem. You often get fictional characters get on their high horses in these situations- someone will say "is it better to kill 20 people to save 200?" and they'll be like "killing anyone is still murder!!!". Mind you, it's still hypocritical in this case...

Unless AI's are involved.

Wow, how did I never notice that? That's wild, especially when the Dark Sun Gladiator grants the ability to specialize in multiple weapons as a class feature. And they just handed weapon specialization to Rangers and Paladins, too? All this time, I thought only certain Kits would let me do...

This may have changed at some point, Lord knows, after awhile they gave out Weapon Specialization like candy (there's an Al Qadim Kit that gives it to Thieves ffs), but that's not how it started in the PHB: Like, obviously the "Fighter (only)" limitation got axed with the Complete Fighter's...

I hope that one day the Federation will see fit to fund the Pelia Museum of Human History, given that she's been collecting relics of it for centuries and probably knows more about humanity's last dark age than anyone. Hm. What do you suppose would happen if I asked Pelia about the Eugenics...

It was a natural evolution of what was going on by late 2e. You had a wide variety of race options, classes, kits, alternate uses for proficiencies, a ton of NWP's, a massive library of spells, psionic wild talents, lots of crazy good weapons (not that anything was better than TWF, really...

It's Treknobabble, and it's kind of a franchise staple at this point. Go back and watch some TNG if you really want to be reminded of how much worse this sort of thing can get! I think it was the Q Squared novel when someone pointed out that the Enterprise runs into bizarre new anomalies so...

I would imagine, if pressed, some of the people in favor of an attack roll for touch spells would rather go back to "need to hit and the target gets a save" design, like how 3e Inflict Wounds worked. 5e sought to streamline this process, ditching some die rolls and hopefully making these sorts...

I think that's really the problem with Star Trek as a series. Most episodes are written with the idea of "wouldn't it be cool if they encountered this?" but all too often, actually delving into how these new discoveries would completely change the franchise runs into immediate problems from a...

Basically, most groups pretty much play D&D "their" preferred way, and reject any change to the system that implies that "their" way is old & busted compared to the "new hotness" of whatever the current edition is. During the AD&D years, the game was pretty much the Wild West of gaming. Groups...

I admit, I was expecting this to be an early appearance of The Doomsday Machine, given the "urban legends" about it. Early human space programs were really efficient in the Trek universe apparently, thinking of this thing and the Botany Bay. Not sure if we can count V'Ger or Nomad though.

Found it, it's the planet of Falx, from "Pratical Planetology" and it's somehow worse than I recalled:

Speaking of ancient technology, Pelia's collection puts Kivas Fajo's to shame, lol.

So what, anytime it is dramatically appropriate, we should just pretend the D&D magic system doesn't exist? "Yeah, uh, it's really important that you can't interact with this plot point in any way until it's dramatically appropriate, and I don't know why you'd want to, that can't possibly be...

Sure but ok, how many spell slots can the player actually come up with here? D&D magic is magic bullets fired from a gun. And often, there are situations that only have magical solutions- I'm not saying that's great design, but that's just how the game is. You ask a character to end...

The original was unique, until Spelljammer revealed there was a whole planet of them, where they rule the surface, and the underground is ruled by Mind Flayers. Because of course there is.