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Hasbro is having all sorts of problems with toy distribution due to the on-again/off-again style of the tariff negotiations. (I am being as charitable as I can to avoid being banned). The toy isles are barren except for whatever stock from 2024 they had left and trickles of new things. I can...

So AI took synaptic static and mind sliver and mixed them into a spell that splits the difference. Not all that impressive. In fact, absolutely pedestrian. Have it make a new summon spell like Summon Astral Construct (with stat block). Better yet, have it create a psionic wizard subclass. Or a...

AI haven't yet met the ability of humans to screw things up.

You are grossly oversimplifying the process. It's not as easy as saying "generate me a 1st - 12th level adventure featuring mind flayers" and getting Phandelver and Below. Even using an AI that isn't going to hallucinate stuff you can't use, a real designer is going the adventure scenarios and...

I'd love to see an interview video of an AI Todd asking questions to an AI designer and watching the system go full recursion on itself. By the end of that interview, it would be hallucinating so bad that reality wouldn't even be in the rearview mirror.

Wizard is too specific an implementation (intelligent book user) for the role of being a generic caster. The fighter sacrifices it's identity for flexibility. Other classes (bard, barbarian, etc) sacrifice flexibility for identity. The wizard demands both flexibility (access to nearly all arcane...

That is absolutely my belief too. And I think while the line between subclass and class is rather subjective, D&D has done a decent job of trying to split the difference. I'm not sure assassin or illusionist could have been a full class with multiple subclasses of their own, but barbarian or...

So the sorcerer bloodlines (mind you, they stopped using this term because many of them aren't inherited) have one real crossover (Great Old One and Aberrant) and one squint and you can see it (fathomless and storm are vaguely water and lightning related). You can really stretch and say Divine...

I understand that there is a general fear of AI (and with good reason) but I don't think that it's good enough yet to make a Forgotten Realms module, yet alone a campaign supplement. The idea they are firing people now for tech that's still five years from being viable is comical. Then again...

Mastermaker. It's an update of a 3e prestige class Renegade Mastermaker. https://dnd.arkalseif.info/classes/renegade-mastermaker/index.html Still works better than GSA.

I can't wait until monster stat blocks start referencing Thac0 in them...

That's what I think as well. I don't know if they moved because they wanted to move on to new things or if Darrington offered them a better gig (more money, easier workload) but I don't see it as a headhunting or resign in disgust type of situation.

I'm sure someone will spin this as "Chris and Jeremy abandoning WotC sinking ship over Controversies." This just tells me that this isn't a bridge burning between the two.

I was just about to say Darrington has the chance to do the funniest thing ever...

Hey, can Jeremy and Chris give a good look over to the Exandria books and tweak those subclasses and feats to make them work better?

Beyond being warm in this tells me there isn't a lot of bad blood here. We'll find out the full story eventually.

I think we both agree on the cause, but not the cure. Wizard and Fighter are designed to be a catch all because when they conceived of as fighting-man and magic-user, they were supposed to fill all those different archetypes equally. The fighting man was a bandit, knight, ranger, barbarian...

Whereas I think the wizard is basically SPELLBOOK: THE CLASS. If anything, the wizard should be a subclass of sorcerer who gets a spellbook that they can use to swap out their spells known from. But inertia will keep Spellbook as a base class (it's one of the Core Four). So thus I will keep...

The issue (like with so many D&D classes) is that the sorcerer is three archetypes in a trench coat fighting to see which one is going to be the top. You have the Innate Caster, the wizard-without-a-spellbook character. You have the Spell Shaper, the character whose brimming with power and can...

That's an interesting take. I think it would work best as either a martial or a half-caster gish (like a paladin) who picks up monster abilities. Subclasses for different types of monster could influence the amount you lean into each part (draconic for magical, giantish for tanky, celestial for...